Margaret from Kilbeggan Library reviews The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Nan Shepherd offers a depth of scientific knowledge and lived experience from the point of view that "each of the senses is a way into what the mountain can give". The mountain being the Caingorms of Scotland. It is an invitation into a world […]
Bad Island by Stanley Donwood perfectly proves the adage of "a picture paints a thousand words". The stark black and white illustrations evoke a feeling of watching an elegant silent movie or film. The book tells the story of an island from the savage prehistoric era to the destructive arrival of modern humans. The message […]
An Irish Woman in Czarist Russia by Jean Lombard is an amazing read. The book centres on the life of Kathleen Ffrench (1864-1938) daughter of Robert Percy Ffrench an Irish Diplomat and Sophie Alexandrovna Kindiakova a Russian heiress. Kathleen went on to inherit her father’s Irish Castle at Monivea, Galway, Ireland and her Russian grandfather’s […]