The 51st Highland Division at War

History

GRANT, Roderick

Europe

Ian Allen

But not in anger: The RAF in the transport role

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

I. Allan

Strathalder is a wonderful evocation of life on a Scottish country estate from the 1920s to the 1970s. "I was born and raised on a Scottish country estate where my father was a gamekeeper and my mother tended our home set in the heart of woodland close to the banks of a turbulent river. As a boy I was fortunate to have the freedom of thousands of acres in which to roam." Based on hundreds of interviews from gamekeepers to housekeepers, Roderick Grant creates a poignant and candid picture of a way of life, which still survives in modern times. In addition to the harshness of work on the farms and transformation of the estate into a commercial business he discovered much about the people - their relationships with each other and those they worked for, and also their loyalties and disloyalties.

Strathalder

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Reminiscence Large Print

"I was born and raised on a Scottish country estate where my father was a gamekeeper and my mother tended our home set in the heart of woodland close to the banks of a turbulent river. As a boy I was fortunate to have the freedom of thousands of acres in which to roam."  Based on hundreds of interviews from gamekeepers to housekeepers, Roderick Grant creates a poignant and candid picture of a way of life, which still survives in modern times. In addition to the harshness of work on the farms and transformation of the estate into a commercial business he discovered much about the people – their relationships with each other and those they worked for, and also their loyalties and disloyalties.

Gordon Cremonesi

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences. Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. Roderick Grant's book is not merely one of nostalgic recall. It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and labourer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Birlinn Ltd.

A passionate evocation of a vanishing way of life in the Scottish Highlands, Strathalder, when first published in hardcover, achieved critical acclaim both in Britain and the USA. Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chauffeurs, cooks and housekeepers, this extraordinary book is a portrait of the Scottish country estate in its heyday in the 1920s and as it is even today.

Strathalder: A Highland Estate

When I was three I was stung 172 times by a swarm of angry, demented bees. And as my mother said later when my head, face and neck had returned to a reasonably normal shape, "It was all your own fault".    In this evocative memoir, Roderick Grant recalls the laughter, tragedy and drama of a boyhood spent in Morayshire in the late 1940s and 1950s. Against the backdrop of some of Scotland's most beautiful scenery, he not only re-creates the experiences that moulded his early life but also paints a vivid picture of a remote country community, close knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.

Clap hands for the singing molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish childhood

Triple Cat Pub

<i>Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher</i> is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer’s childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences. Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes.<br><br>Roderick Grant’s book is not merely one of nostalgic recall. It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and laborer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.

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