Thornhill book launch at the BQA Hotel – Thursday 17 Nov 7 pm
Come for a wee chat, a 
read and a swallie. If you have a pink book already, bring it along and I’ll sign it.
Dumfries Book Launch – Wednesday 16 November 6 pm
Hope you can make it. And if you’ve already got a copy of (The) Last Year, bring it along for signing.
Location photo 4 – (The) Last Year – Dumfries
Dumfries town centre, where several key scenes of the novel are set.
Book launch – Dumfries
Please come along on 16 November – share with your contacts. Hope to see you there for a chat and a read – or in Thornhill on the 17th!
Book launch – Thornhill
Please come along on 17 November – share with your contacts. Hope to see you there for a chat and a drink – or in Dumfries on the 16th!
Pink against Pink – (The) Last Year location photo 3
Mid-Nithsdale in bloom. Is it really half way through October? #(The) Last Year #novel#Dumfries and Galloway
book launch in Thornhill – early warning
Thursday 17 November, Buccleuch and Queensberry Hotel – save the date. More info to follow. #Thornhill#novel#(The)LastYear
location 2 for (The) Last Year
A view of Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway – the market town near Deborah and John’s house. #Thornhill#Dumfries and Galloway#Scotland
locations for (The) Last Year
I want to share some of the locations in Scotland and the US which I enjoyed writing about in (The) Last Year. For a start, here’s a view of the Scaur Water, where John gives himself a good talking to one night.
Scotland and Iceland
Another wee piece from the Yellow Door exhibition:
Iceland is the country that Scotland sometimes yearns to be. Its independent, self-governing, confident chippiness appeals to that part of the Scottish identity which longs to tell the rest of the world how unique we are.
Its austere northern beauty chimes with those parts of our country which lift us to the best of ourselves.
Its creativity is unembarrasedly original. A bit like our own.
Its weather makes ours seem tropical!
And when we stand on the beaches of Sutherland, or the Isle of Lewis, or Shetland, or Orkney – it’s Iceland which is in our mind’s eye’s shouting distance. And we smile back at our near neighbour across the ever-changing Atlantic Sea.