Scotland small? Hugh MacDiarmid’s famous question wasn’t rhetorical – for him, at least. For others, Scots included, the compact dimensions of Caledonia were self-evident.
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James Robertson: And The Land Lay Still (Hamish Hamilton, £18.99)
Scotland is the subject of a state-of-the-nation novel with a Dickensian scope.
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