Robin A Crawford

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Author & bookseller Fife, Scotland Out now: The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay Birlinn Previously: Into The Peatlands 2018 Birlinn, Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers 2020 Elliott & Thompson https://robinacrawford.com

Frontispiece illustration from my book 'Into The Peatlands' showing human footprints -shod and unshod- over time preserved at the foot of a stratified peat bank.

Painting by Dundee artist James Macintosh Patrick 1940. View towards Blackness from his window with Monday washing on line in November garden. Apple tree still fruiting. Little girl in picture now 87

Event at the Birnam Reader Bookshop, 7:30 pm on Thursday 11th September. Station Rd, Birnam, Dunkeld PH8 0DS

Audience at event in Toppings bookshop, St Andrews, Scotland for launch of ‘The Sound of Many Waters’ raise their hands to map the river Tay and its main tributaries.

From the introduction

Went to the Anti-Trump demo in Aberdeen last Saturday

‘The Sound of Many Waters’ 1876 by John Everett Millais (1820-1896) in the collection of the National Trust for Scotland, Fyvie Castle

cover of my new book The Sound of Many Waters, A Journey Along the River Tay publishing 5 July