David Purdie: 3 books
Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
Newly Adapted for the Modern Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Edinburgh, 1736: an indignant crowd has gathered in the Grassmarket to watch the execution of a smuggler. Opening with the start of the Porteous Riots, The Heart of Midlothian is one of Walter Scott's most famous historical novels, featuring murder, madness and seduction. Following his brutal suppression...
The Dean's Diaries
Being a True & Factual Account of the Doings & Dealings of the Dean & Dons of St Andrew's College
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
The Dean of St Andrew's College oversees an ancient institution (Est. 1561) renowned for its academic oddity, inter-departmental warfare and explosive disasters.The Dean s observations and anecdotes provide an exceptionally witty account of academia in Edinburgh, seamlessly combining the douce realities...
Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Newly Adapted for the Modern Reader by David Purdie
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Ivanhoe follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, part of one of the few Saxon families at a time when English nobility was dominated by the Normans, who is out of favour with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart. The gripping storyline beautifully captures the 12th century tensions...