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Heartland: A Novel
Author(s): John Mackay (Author)
- Publisher: Luath Press Ltd.
- Publication Date: 20 May 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1842820591
- ISBN-13: 9781842820599
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
A fine, rewarding read. The Sunday Herald
A combination of Changing Rooms and Agatha Christie, Mackay’s Heartland demonstrates the Scotland Today presenter has a readable easy-going prose style Scottish Review of Books
About the Author
John Mackay was born in Glasgow in 1965 and has drawn on the oral traditions of his Hebridean background to write The Road Dance – his first novel – and one that sears itself onto the reader’s mind, a novel you can’t not respond to. John MacKay is a journalist and newsreader for STV and presents Scotland Today (6-6:30pm Mon-Fri on STV).
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