Allan Massie
Machistory
Curios Scotland: Tales From A Hidden History
By George Rosie
Granta Books 244pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
GEORGE ROSE IS one of Scotland’s most versatile and talented men of letters. He has written plays and at least one good novel, and been a journalist (on the Sunday Times) and a documentary film-maker. He has, like Kipling’s Elephant’s Child, a ‘satiable curiosity. This book of essays and squibs displays to good effect his ability to come at unexpected subjects from surprising angles.
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'Fiona Shaw, in Jonathan Miller’s production, is the best shrew I have seen. She starts off in a mustard yellow dress with a mustard sharp tongue.'
From the archive, Kate Kellaway on a 1988 production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
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'He was not a revolutionary at all of course. He was only marginally a socialist. His tradition was rooted in the Liberal aristocracy, and his politics were entirely bounded by Parliament.'
From the archive, Paul Foot on Tony Benn's diaries.
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