#Andy Dalziell

[j-august]

Something defensive almost formed on Pascoe's lips, but he let it fade unspoken. As Dalziel himself once said, when offered the sympathy vote, sigh deeply and limp a bit.

Reginald Hill, Death's Jest-Book

[jtownraindancer]

Detective Dalziel: "Keen on photography, are ya?"

Jerry, clearly lying: "...No?"

Detective Dalziel: 🤨

[georgefairbrother]

This is the fourth in our occasional series featuring luminaries of stage and screen with a strong personal and/or professional connection with Northeast England, inspired with thanks by @robbielewis. Previous profiles were of Jean Heywood, John Nightingale and Edward Wilson. This time, Sunderland born actor siblings Malcolm and Catherine Terris.

Malcolm Terris was born on January 11th, 1941, boarded at Barnard Castle School in County Durham, then worked as a cadet journalist at the Sunderland Echo before training as an actor.

He was active on British television from 1963, his style perfectly suited to larger than life characters, and is possibly best remembered for his role as Great War veteran and salt-of the-earth union leader, Matt Headley, in 34 episodes of the Tyneside interwar social-realism drama, When the Boat Comes In.

As Matt Headley, with James Bolam (Jack Ford) in When the Boat Comes In.

His more than 120 recorded screen credits include a variety of British television programmes, including Fall of Eagles, Doctor Who (Horns of Nimon, 1979), Reilly: Ace of Spies, three separate roles in Coronation Street, Our Friends in the North, The Bill, and a regular role in Rockliffe’s Babies. His final appearance was in Midsomer Murders in 2011.

His big screen appearances include as ship’s surgeon, with Anthony Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, in The Bounty (1984), with Ricky Tomlinson in Mike Bassett: England Manager, and in Dickie Attenborough’s Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey Jnr in the title role. He has also appeared on stage including in productions of Othello and in a Broadway production of Hamlet.

He passed away at the artistes residential care home, Denville Hall, on June 6th, 2020, aged 79.

Catherine Terris was born in 1948, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She has been active in British television since 1972, appearing with her brother in seven episodes of When the Boat Comes In. Her other television work includes Z Cars, two roles in Coronation Street, Anna Karenina, Inspector Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Heartbeat, George Gently, and a regular role (15 episodes) in William and Mary with Martin Clunes and Julie Graham. She also appeared in the hugely successful feature film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

According to her page on the Coronation Street fan site, Corriepedia:

"...On stage she has appeared in productions of Faustus, A Rite Kwik Metal Tata, Andy Capp, Tight at the Back, Rose, Tom Jones, Billy Liar, Queuing for Everest and Into the Blue..."

Her most recent television screen credit is In the Club (BBC 2014-16) and latest big screen appearance was in the 2021 feature film, Martyrs Lane.

On stage with Sarah Gordy MBE (The A Word, Ralph and Katie) in the 2016 Arcola Theatre production of Into the Blue, written by Beverley Hancock and directed by Deborah Paige. Image from Sarah Gordy's official site.

[andymcwilliamcelebrant]

Kes and Dylan chose to include a Sand Ceremony, Drinking from the Quaich and a Candle of Remembrance in their wonderful ceremony yesterday. The bridal party looking great at the South Dalziel Historic Building.

 Website: https://amcelebrant.co.uk/

[justforbooks]

Peter Robinson was the creator of the immensely popular Inspector Alan Banks crime series, set in Yorkshire – the books sold almost 9m copies in 19 languages and spawned a successful television series (DCI Banks, 2010-16) starring Stephen Tompkinson as Banks.

Robinson, who has died aged 72 after a brief illness, first introduced Banks and the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale to the crime-reading world in 1987 with Gallows View. The gruff Yorkshire cop, complex as the best crime cops are expected to be, but with a belief in fairness and justice, was an immediate success, with Gallows View shortlisted for the best first novel award in Canada and for the UK Crimewriters’ Association’s John Creasey award.

Although he had not necessarily intended to write a series, Robinson went on to produce a Banks novel a year – as well as award-winning short stories. He was regularly nominated for and frequently won awards in Canada, the US, France, the UK and Sweden.

A native of Yorkshire, Robinson lived for most of his life in Toronto. He once said he started the Inspector Banks series because he was homesick in his early days in Canada.

He was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, to Clifford Robinson, a rent collector, and Miriam (nee Jarvis), a cleaner, and grew up in Armley, a working-class suburb of Leeds (also home to fellow writers Alan Bennett and Barbara Taylor Bradford). It is not too much of a stretch to assume that aspects of Inspector Banks’s adolescence in the 1960s, as described in Close to Home (2003), the 14th novel in the series, mirrored Robinson’s own.

He described in one interview how he spent the lively summer of 1965 “with his ear glued to his transistor radio and his eyes on the passing girls”. He went to Leeds University to study English literature. While there he wrote poetry and gave public readings around Yorkshire.

In 1974 he moved to Canada, to take an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario. One of his tutors was the prolific and highly esteemed American author Joyce Carol Oates, who taught him, among other things, to take his writing seriously.

He then moved to Toronto, to York University, to take a PhD in English. There he organised various poetry events and helped set up a small press with friends, whose publications included a volume of his own poems. He settled in the city after meeting his future wife, Sheila Halladay, a lawyer, there.

Although he continued to write poetry occasionally throughout his life (some of which he placed in one or two of his novels, attributed to various characters) he once explained that things he would previously have put in his poems he now put in his prose.

In each Banks novel Robinson explored the character of the policeman a little more, but always keeping him grounded in his sense of decency and justice. Robinson was teaching at different colleges from time to time during this period – including a year as writer in residence at his old university, Windsor.

In 1990 he published a stand-alone novel, Caedmon’s Song, a psychological thriller in which two young women in different parts of England find their paths crossing in an alarming way.

In 2000 he made a step-change with the 10th Banks novel, In a Dry Season, which had a more complex (and haunting) plot, set around secrets long hidden in a village flooded to create a reservoir and revealed when the reservoir dries up. Oddly, his fellow Yorkshireman Reginald Hill, creator of that bluff northern detective Andy Dalziel and his university-educated sidekick, Peter Pascoe, had the same idea of using a flooded village and dried-up reservoir in On Beulah Height, published around the same time.

Hill won the US Barry award for On Beulah Height in 1999 and Robinson the same award for In a Dry Season the year after. In addition it won the Anthony award in the US and the Martin Beck award in Sweden. In 2002 Robinson was awarded the Dagger in the Library by the UK Crime Writers’ Association for most popular author of that year, voted for by libraries.

He claimed it got harder as time went on to maintain the high standard he had established for himself in the series, but it was not noticeable in his output. Banks went on through divorce, further success in his career and no let-up in the complexity and sometimes brutality of the cases he investigated.

Robinson visited the UK regularly – he and Sheila had a cottage in Richmond, North Yorkshire – and he was a well-known and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world.

In 2009 the University of Leeds awarded him an honorary doctorate. He and his wife later endowed the Peter Robinson scholarship at Leeds to help students from less advantaged backgrounds study English – preferably students with an interest in creative writing.

The first episodes of the Inspector Banks TV adaptation came along in 2010, with Tompkinson well received playing the title character. It ran for five series.

Robinson had completed another Banks novel before he died. Standing in the Shadows is due to be published next year.

Sheila survives him.

🔔 Peter Robinson, writer, born 17 March 1950; died 4 October 2022

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[wellpresseddaisy]

I've been reading the Dalziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill and now I really want a crossover with Harry Potter. It's roughly the right timeframe (in the D&P characters seem to age by their own internal logic no matter the time period of the book) and I really want:

- Peter Pascoe (Hufflepuff, prefect from year 5 on), Wizard Liaison to the Mid Yorkshire CID, went to Hogwarts AND got his O and A levels before University (social sciences). Mostly got voluntold into being the liaison, which means his territory is everything from Hadrian's Wall down. There were meant to be others, but it didn't seem as vital post-Voldemort.

- Andy Dalziel (Slytherin), Superintendent in the Mid Yorkshire CID and all around bastard (but is he really?), went to Hogwarts with Mad-Eye Moody but keeps quiet about it. If anyone asks, he left school at 14. Well, he worked hard enough in the summers, didn't he, earning his way? He and Moody meet up for a pint occasionally.

- Dobby's levitation spell registers and Peter gets both a report and a feeling about it. Something isn't quite right. So he and Dalziel take a trundle down to Surrey (off their patch as CID, but not if they're on Wizard Business).

- They arrive at the address, not knowing what they're about to unleash. Peter puts on his best and poshest accent at the door, asking to meet the young magical living there. Petunia tries to demur. Dalziel distracts her enough (such manners! and that accent! dreadful) for Peter to slip by and up the stairs. Where he's confronted with a door with locks aplenty and a cat flap.

- Biological fertilizer hits the fan once Andy sees. And gets worse when they see the kid on the other side. Because Peter knows those eyes. And hadn't he given James Potter enough detentions to know that hair and face? Moody's told Dalziel enough that he puts two and two together and comes up with four. Some gentle questioning later, and then the suggestion from Dalziel that they could just go if he liked his accomodations so, got Harry talking.

- Problem: D&P are now in possession of 1 Harry Potter. Who, once they hot-foot it back to Yorkshire, doesn't seem to exist in any system, Muggle or Magical. He should appear in the social services lists as an orphan placed with family. More worringly, he hasn't seen a doctor, Muggle or Magical, since his first birthday.

- Further Problem: Ellie Pascoe is laughing at her husband and his superior, in the common parlance, like a drain. She and Harry get on, though, so Peter and Dalziel can get down to sorting this mess out. She sorts out the actual practical things and sort of wishes she were the cop.

- Hilarity ensues when they knock on a certain door in Spinner's Lane looking for information. Dalziel is thoroughly entertained by the bad-tempered young man who drawls "Oh look, it's St. Peter. On another quest, are we?"

- Peter has never taken so much delight in telling another person to get stuffed before. And takes further (very guilty) delight in explaining to Snape. Who needs ten minutes with his head between his knees and a large brandy before he stops shaking. And Christ but Snape is terrifying when actually angry.

- Dalziel winds up Very Annoyed that someone sent Harry south. "Took a nice northern boy and mucked him up. Her with her airs and graces." Snape (privately) agrees.

- We wind up with the three of them looking into what precisely happened to Harry in re guardianship. They find a mess and a scandal. Dumbledore isn't pleased but Peter locates his backbone (not that it's difficult, but he tries to be a decent person) and tells him to get stuffed, too.

- Harry stays with the Pascoes as he apparently doesn't actually exist so there's no one to complain (and after a quick word in Petunia's shell-like ear from Dalziel, she doesn't). Well, Dumbledore complains, but Dalziel Has Words with him. So does Ellie. Harry's never certain who exactly it was that got through to him.

- Snape is a good bit less of a berk the next September. That, Harry supposes, could be because compared to Andy Dalziel, everyone seems less of a berk. Anyroad, his essays come back less covered in spiky red comments about his penmanship and general ability to construct an essay (in between visits with the Weasleys and Hermione he had summer lessons in both with the Pascoes and now Ellie is working on a campaign to at least get Hogwarts to accept fountain pens).

- Second year is still a mess, but he has actual Christmas and a baby sister to look forward to AND he could actually approach Snape about the whole voices in the wall thing (well, Snape called him down to his office and threatened to write to Peter and Ellie unless he spilled it). Turns out Snape is even better at making connections than Hermione. Harry and Ron still wind up down in the Chamber with Lockhart, and Ginny still nearly dies (and so does Harry), but it all works out in the end.

- Harry spends most of the summer fairly well grounded because he terrified Ellie. But Rosie is a sweetheart and Peter finds places to take him flying. And no one complains about Hedwig. And Dalziel keeping an eye on him and Rosie every so often so Peter and Ellie can have a night out is...instructive.

Well, maybe some day. :-)

Addendum: Snape and Dalziel form a rather odd friendship that makes people in high places Very Nervous.

[peach-salinger]

✧･*ﾟscottish surnames

→ link to my scottish female name masterlist → link to my scottish male name masterlist

under the cut are 733 scottish surnames. this masterlist was created for all in one breath rp at the request of lovely el, but feel free to link on your own sites! names are listed in alphabetical order. ❝mac❞, ❝mc❞ and ❝m❞ are split into three sections because i mean... look at them. please like♡ or reblog if you found this useful.

abbot(son), abercrombie, abernethy, adam(son), agnew, aikenhead, aitken, akins, allan(nach/son), anderson, (mac)andie, (mac)andrew, angus, annand, archbold/archibald, ard, aris, (mac)arthur

B

(mac)bain/bayne, baird, baker, balfour, bannatyne, bannerman, barron, baxter, beaton, beith, bell, bethune, beveridge, birse, bisset, bishop, black(ie), blain/blane, blair, blue, blyth, borthwick, bowie, boyd, boyle, braden, bradley, braithnoch, (mac)bratney, breck, bretnoch, brewster, (mac)bridan/brydan/bryden, brodie, brolochan, broun/brown, bruce, buchanan, budge, buglass, buie, buist, burnie, butter/buttar

C

caie, (mac)caig, (mac)cail, caird, cairnie, (mac)callan(ach), calbraith, (mac)callum, calvin, cambridge, cameron, campbell, canch, (mac)candlish, carberry, carmichael, carrocher, carter, cassie, (mac)caskie, catach, catto, cattenach, causland, chambers, chandlish, charleson, charteris, chisholm, christie, (mac)chrystal, (mac)clanachan/clenachan, clark/clerk, (mac)clean, cleland, clerie, (mac)clinton, cloud, cochrane, cockburn, coles, colinson, colquhoun, comish, comiskey, comyn, conn(an), cook, corbett, corkhill, (mac)cormack, coull, coulthard, (mac)cowan, cowley, crabbie, craig, crane, cranna, crawford/crawfurd, crerar, cretney, crockett, crosby, cruikshank, (mac)crum, cubbin, cullen, cumming, cunningham, currie, cuthbertson

D

dallas, dalglish, dalziel, darach/darroch, davidson, davie, day, deason, de lundin, dewar, dickin, dickson, docherty, dockter, doig, dollar, (mac)donald(son), donelson, donn, douglas, dorward, (mac)dow(all), dowell, (macil)downie, drain, drummond, (mc)duff(ie)/duff(y), duguid, dunnet, dunbar, duncan, dunn, durward, duthie

E, F

eggo, elphinstone, erskine, faed, (mac)farquhar(son), fee, fergus(on), (mac)ferries, fettes, fiddes, findlay, finn, finlayson, fisher, fishwick, fitzgerald, flanagan, fleming, fletcher, forbes, forrest, foulis/fowlis, fraser, fullarton, fulton, furgeson

G

gall(ie), galbraith, gammie, gardyne, (mac)garvie, gatt, gault, geddes, gellion, gibb(son), gilbert, gilbride, (mac)gilchrist, gilfillan, (mac)gill(ivray/ony), gillanders, gillespie, gillies, gilliland, gilmartin, gilmichael, gilmore, gilroy, gilzean, (mac)glashan, glass, gloag, glover, godfrey, gollach, gordon, (mac)gorrie, gourlay, gow, graeme/graham, grant, grassick, grassie, gray, gregg, (mac)gregor(y), greer, greig, grierson, grieve, grimmond, (mac)gruer, gunn, guthrie

H

hall, hamill, (mac)hardie/hardy, harper, harvie, hassan, hatton, hay, henderson, hendry, henry, hepburn, herron, hood, hosier, howie, hugston, huie, hume, humphrey, hunter, (mac)hutcheon, hutcheson

I, J, K

(mac)innes, irving, iverach, ivory, jamieson, jarvie, jeffrey(s), johnson, johnston, jorie, (mac)kay, (mac)kean, keenan, keillor, keir, keith, kelly, kelso, keogh, kemp, kennedy, (mac)kerr(acher), kesson, king, kynoch

L

laing, laird, (mac)laine/lane, lamond, lamont, landsborough, landsburgh, lang/laing, larnach, laurie/lawrie, lees, lennie, lennox, leslie, lindsay, little(son), lithgow, livingston(e), lobban, logan, lorne, lothian, lovat, love, loynachan, luke, luther

MAC-

mac ruaidhrí, mac somhairle, mac suibhne, macadam, macadie, macaffer, macainsh, macalasdair, macallister, macalonie, macalpine, macanroy, macara, macarthy, macaskill, macaskin, macaughtrie, macaulay, macauslan, macbean, macbeath, macbeth(ock), macbey, macbriden, macbryde, maccabe, maccadie, maccaffer, maccaffey/maccaffie, maccalman, maccambridge, maccann, maccance, maccartney, maccavity, maccaw, macdowell, maccheyne, maccodrum, maccomb(ie), maccorkindale, maccormick, maccoll, macconie, macconnachie, macconnell, maccoshin, maccoskrie, maccorquodale, macclaren, maccleary, macclew, maccloy, macclumpha, macclung, macclure, macclurg, maccraig, maccrain, maccreadie, maccrimmon, maccrindle, maccririe, maccrone, maccrosson, maccuaig, maccuidh, maccuish, macculloch, maccurley, macdermid/macdiarmid, macdougall, macdui, macduthy, maceachainn, maceachen, macelfrish, macewan/macewen, macfadyen, macfadzean, macfall, macfarlane/macpharlane, macfater/macphater, macfeat, macfee, macfigan, macgarrie, macgarva, macgeachen/macgeechan, macgeorge, macghie, macgibbon, macgillonie, macgiven, macglip, macgriogair, macgruther, macguire, macgurk, machaffie, macheth, machugh, macichan, macinnally, macindeoir, macindoe, macinesker, macinlay, macinroy, macintosh, macintyre, macisaac, maciver/macivor, macilherran, macilroy, macjarrow, mackail, mackeegan, mackeggie, mackellar, mackelvie, mackendrick, mackenna, mackenzie, mackerlich, mackerral, mackerron, mackerrow, mackessock, mackettrick, mackichan, mackie, mackilligan, mackillop, mackim(mie), mackinven, mackirdy/mackirdie, mackrycul, maclafferty, maclagan, maclarty, maclatchie/letchie, maclaverty, maclearnan, macleay, maclehose, macleish, maclellan(d), macleman, macleod, macleòid, maclintock, macllwraith, maclucas, macluckie, maclugash, macmann(us), macmaster, macmeeken, macmichael, macmillan, macminn, macmorrow, macmurchie, macmurdo, macmurray, macnab, macnair, macnally, macnaught(on), macnee, macneish/macnish, macnicol, macninder, macnucator, macpartland, macphail, macphatrick, macphee, macphedran, macpherson, macquarrie, macqueen, macquien, macquilken, macrae/machray, macraild, macrob(bie/bert), macrory, macrostie, macshane, macsherry, macsorley, macsporran, macsween, mactavish, mactear, macturk, macusbaig, macvannan, macvarish, macvaxter, macvean, macveigh/macvey, macvicar, macvitie, macvurich, macwalter, macwattie, macwhannell, macwhillan, macwhinnie

MC-

mccabe, mccain, mcclelland, mcclintock, mcconell, mccracken, mccune, mccurdy, mcdiarmid, mcelshender, mceuen, mcewing, mcfadden, mcgeachie/mcgeachy, mcgowan, mcilroy, mcinnis, mcivor, mckechnie, mckeown, mclarty, mclennan, mcneill(age/ie), mcowen, mcphee, mcpherson, mcwhirter

M

maduthy, magruder, mahaffie, main(s), mair, major, malcolm(son), malloch, manson, marr, marno(ch), (mac)martin, marquis, massie, matheson, mathewson, maver/mavor, maxwell, may, mearns, meechan, meiklejohn, meldrum, mellis(h), menzies, mercer, micklewain, milfrederick, millar/miller, milligan, milliken, milne, milroy, milvain, milwain, moannach, moat, moffat, mollinson, moncrief, monk, montgomery, moore, moray, morgan, (mac)morran, morrison, morrow, morton, mossman, mucklehose, muir(head), mulloy, munn, munro, (mac)murchie/murchy, murchison, murdoch, murphy

N, O, P, Q

nairn, naughton, navin, neeve, neil, neish, nelson, ness, nevin, nicalasdair, niceachainn, (mac)nichol(son), nicleòid, (mac)niven, noble, ochiltree, ogg, ogilvy, o'kean, oliver, omay/omey, orchard(son), orr, osborne, park, paterson, patrick, patten, peacock, peat, peters, philp, polson, power, purcell, purser, qualtrough, quayle, quillan, quiller, quinn, quirk

R, S

(mac)ranald(son), randall, rankin, reid, reoch, revie, riach, (mac)ritchie, roberts(on), rose, ross, rothes, roy, ryrie, salmon(d), scott, selkirk, sellar, shannon, sharpe, shaw, sheen, shiach, sillars, sim(son/pson), sinclair, skene, skinner, sloan, smith, somerville, soutar/souter, stein, stenhouse, stewart/stuart, strachan, stronach, sutherland, (mac)swan(son/ston), swinton

T, U, V, W, Y

taggart, tallach, tawse, taylor, thom(son), todd, tolmie, tosh, tough, tulloch, turner, tyre, ulrick, urquhart, vass, wallace, walker, walsh, warnock, warren, ward, watt, watson, wayne, weir, welsh, whiston, whyte, wilkins(on), (mac)william(son), wilson, winning, wright, young

[scotamfaselect]

Scottish Amateur FA Select - Squad Announcement

Colin MacLeod, Stevie Reynolds & Craig Tully: SAFA Select Coaches

Scottish Amateur FA Select: Squad Training & Friendly Matches

With the season now well underway, Colin MacLeod and his coaching team will shortly begin their longer-term preparations towards this season’s international fixtures in May of next year.

Colin has organised two training sessions for November: Sunday 3 November and Sunday 24 November. Both these training sessions will take place at Falkirk Stadium from 11.00 am - 1.00 pm.

The Scottish Amateur FA Select will follow up the first session with a friendly match versus Whitburn Juniors on Tuesday 5 November at Dalziel Park, Motherwell, with an 8.00 pm KO.

The Management Team will arrange a second friendly for either Monday 25 November or Tuesday 26 November. Both the opposition and venue for this match have still to be confirmed.

As always, Colin and his extended backroom team have been busy watching fixtures across the country, including keeping an eye on the Inter League fixtures that have been an increasing part of the amateur scene over recent weeks.

Scottish Amateur FA Select Squad: November training sessions:

Goalkeepers: Scott Urquhart (St Josephs), Greg McGuinness (Eastfield), Charles Clark (Fallin)

Defenders: Tyler Fulton (Eastfield), Andy McGown (Fallin), Gary McCulloch (Eastfield), Joe Coleman (St Patrick’s FP), Liam Taggart (Eastfield), Craig Young (Harestanes), Scott Maitland (Oban Saints), Bradley Grieve (Bowhill Rovers), Conor Morgan (Glasgow University)

Midfielders: Scott McGuire (Harestanes), Dale Fulton (Eastfield), Mark Hansen (Eastfield), Niall McClure (Doune Castle), Ryan Crawford (Thorn Athletic), Lewis Cameron (Oban Saints), Ryan Weir (Bannockburn), John Robertson (Sandys), Jason Cassidy (Giffnock North)

Forwards: Richie Lawson (AM Soccer), Ciaran McElroy (St Patrick’s FP), Mark Taylor (Finnart), Daniel Finnigan (St Patrick’s FP), Johnny Black (Harestanes), Robert McKenzie (Sandys), Michael Osborne (Sandys), Ryan Hynes (Drumchapel United PYM)

[prince-atom]

Everybody just feckin’ forgot about Andy Dalziel, didn’t they?

[syndromeblue-blog]

Got to love a good book haul. A huge thank you to all at @oxfambooksknowle for making me feel very welcome and sorting me out with these cool books. I’ll definitely be coming back. I need to go to @oxfam_books_harborne too to see Julian and the crew there who have also been really good to me in the past year. The haul you say! OK. Here goes. The Martian written by Andy Weir is another recommended read from the awesome Sarah-Marie of @apageofwordsandwishes I believe the follow up book Artemis was too. Leviathan Wakes Written by James S. A. Corey was one of Sarah-Marie’s too. She’ll correct me if I’m wrong on that. Then there’s the three gems. Or should I say two gems and the Precious. The Arabian Nights - this is an original. The only date I can find in the book is 1889! It’s an illustrated version with 150 illustrations drawn by Thomas B. Dalziel and published by George Routledge and Sons. The page edges are still gold gilded. The booking coming away from the cover a bit at the spine but nothing some TLC cannot fix. This is definitely a treasure and I have wanted to read the stories for some time. Letters of T.E Lawrence edited by David Garnet Yep. The ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. This also came with some form of newspaper page that has a review of the book at it’s time of release. First published in 1938. This is the New Edition published in 1942. These collected letters from various sources should prove to be an extraordinary insight into this legendary man. I’m excited. And the Precious. First of all apologies to the lady who went out of her way to get this immaculate set of The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King from the back room for me after she learned that I was a fan of Tolkien. The books and case are mint. I am one happy Metal Hobbit. #book #greatreads #reading #author #books #booknerd #booklover #bookcommunity #bookaddict #booksbooksbooks #oxfambook #tolkien #telawrence #arabiannights #themartian #artemis #leviathanwakes #positivevibes #bookvibes #readingvibes #foodforthebrain #positivewaves #metalhobbit (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVF_femItAR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[atlanticcanada]

A 'return to normal' for Nova Scotia after federal vote

Nova Scotians are digesting the results of a federal election that didn't change much for the country.

"The government did not deserve a majority and the other parties had some shortcomings," says voter John Dalziel.

For resident Dawn Belliveau, the result didn't seem worth the effort.

"It seemed that it was very rushed," she says, "it seemed that is was unnecessary."

Necessary or not, the results at the polls mean the Liberals lost two seats in the province – including one held by a prominent member of federal cabinet.

The riding of Cumberland-Colchester County returned to its traditional Tory roots, with Liberal incumbent Lenore Zann defeated by family doctor Stephen Ellis.

Healthcare had been a key issue in the provincial election, and Dr. Ellis said at his campaign event election night that he heard those concerns during his campaign.

"People are tired of not having a family physician and we know that primary care backs up our emergency rooms and backs up our ambulance service as well," he says.

But political science professor Tom Bickerton doesn't think the Conservative's platform on healthcare was the deciding factor.

Bickerton says the Conservative win in Cumberland-Colchester was likely more about appealing to the area's well-established Tory base.

"This time out, they had a leader who's more centrist," says Bickerton, "it made those traditionally progressive voters more comfortable voting CPC."

The other riding that went blue is South Shore-St.Margaret's, which had been held by Bernadette Jordan.

Bickerton believes her handling as federal fisheries minister of the ongoing conflict over the Mi'kmaw treaty fishery likely contributed to her defeat by CPC candidate Rick Perkins. The chief of Sipekne'katik First Nation, Chief Mike Sack, has often been at odds with Jordan and the department over just how much control Ottawa and the DFO should have over indigenous fishing activities.

While Chief Sack says he doesn't like to see Jordan lose her job, he is looking forward to a new fisheries minister.

"Hoping that it's somebody from like central Canada," he says, "who has an unbiased opinion and can work with us."

In Halifax, the federal NDP had high hopes in its candidate, former provincial NDP MLA Lisa Roberts.

But in what was a tight race that ran into the early morning hours of Tuesday, Roberts had to concede to re-elected Liberal MP Andy Fillmore.

Fillmore says the work of the still-minority Liberal government will now continue.

"We're not through with this pandemic yet," Fillmore told CTV news from his election headquarters Monday night, "and we're not done getting big ticket items across the threshold like ten dollar a day daycare."

In the Cape Breton riding of Sydney-Victoria - the province's only indigenous MP retained his seat as well.

Jaime Battiste beat out Conservative Eddie Orrell by 1,124 votes.

While the PPC candidate brought in more than that, at 1,173 votes, Orrell doesn't think a split vote on the right was a factor.

"I don't know what happened," says Orrell by phone while taking down his election signs in New Waterford after he says he and his team knocked on more than 20,000 doors on the campaign trail.

"The PPC vote I don't think was an influence in this campaign, I didn't hear that on the doors. I didn't hear that was going to be a factor in my campaign."

With eight Liberals and three Conservatives heading to Ottawa on behalf of Nova Scotia, Bickerton says the province is "into a more 'normal' distribution of political power" – which he says is a good thing, when it comes to representing the views and values of voters.

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Top writers choose their perfect crime

Crime fiction is now the UKs bestselling genre. So which crime novels should everyone read? We asked the writers who know …

On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill Val McDermid

This is the perfect crime novel. Its beautifully written elegiac, emotionally intelligent, evocative of the landscape and history that holds its characters in thrall and its clever plotting delivers a genuine shock. Theres intellectual satisfaction in working out a plot involving disappearing children, whose counterpoint is Mahlers Kindertotenlieder. Theres darkness and light, fear and relief. And then theres the cross-grained pairing of Dalziel and Pascoe. Everything about this book is spot on.

Although Hills roots were firmly in the traditional English detective novel, he brought to it an ambivalence and ambiguity that allowed him to display the complexities of contemporary life. He created characters who changed and developed in response to their experiences. I urge you to read this with a glass of Andy Dalziels favourite Highland Park whisky.

Insidious Intent by Val McDermid is published by Sphere.

The Damned and the Destroyed by Kenneth Orvis Lee Child

My formative reading was before the internet, before fanzines, before also-boughts, so for me the best ever is inevitably influenced by the gloriously chanced-upon lucky finds, the greatest of which was a 60 cent Belmont US paperback, bought in an import record shop on a back street in Birmingham in 1969. It had a lurid purple cover, and an irresistible strapline: She was beautiful, young, blonde, and a junkie I had to help her! It turned out to be Canadian, set in Montreal. The hero was a solid stiff named Maxwell Dent. The villain was a dealer named The Back Man. The blonde had an older sister. Dents sidekicks were jazz pianists. The story was patient, suspenseful, educational and utterly superb. In many ways its the target I still aim at.

The Midnight Line by Lee Child is published by Bantam.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens Ian Rankin

Does this count as a crime novel? I think so. Dickens presents us with a mazey mystery, a shocking murder, a charismatic police detective, a slippery lawyer and a plethora of other memorable characters many of whom are suspects. The story has pace and humour, is bitingly satirical about the English legal process, and also touches on large moral and political themes. As in all great crime novels, the central mystery is a driver for a broad and deep investigation of society and culture. And theres a vibrant sense of place, too in this case, London, a city built on secret connections, a location Dickens knows right down to its dark, beating heart.

Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin is published by Orion. Siege Mentality by Chris Brookmyre is published by Little, Brown.

The Hollow by Agatha Christie Sophie Hannah

This is my current favourite, in its own way just as good as Murder on the Orient Express. As well as being a perfectly constructed mystery, its a gripping, acutely observed story about a group of people, their ambitions, loves and regrets. The characters are vividly alive, even the more minor ones, and the pace is expertly handled. The outdoor swimming pool scene in which Poirot discovers the murder is, I think, the most memorable discovery-of-the-body scene in all of crime fiction. Interestingly, Christie is said to have believed that the novel would have been better without Poirot. His presence here is handled differently he feels at one remove from the action for much of the time but it works brilliantly, since he is the stranger who must decipher the baffling goings on in the Angkatell family. The murderers reaction to being confronted by Poirot is pure genius. It would have been so easy to give that character, once exposed, the most obvious motivation, but the contents of this killers mind turn out to be much more interesting

Did You See Melody by Sophie Hannah is published by Hodder.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier SJ Watson

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I first came to Rebecca, published in 1938, with one of the most recognisable first lines in literature, not knowing exactly what to expect. That it was a classic I was in no doubt, but a classic what? I suspected a drama, possibly a romance, a book heavy on character but light on plot and one Id read and then forget. How wrong I was.

It is a dark, brooding psychological thriller, hauntingly beautiful, literature yes, but with a killer plot. I loved everything about it. The way Du Maurier slowly twists the screw until we have no idea who to trust, the fact that the title character never appears and exists only as an absence at the heart of the book, the fact that the narrator herself is unnamed throughout. But, more importantly, this thriller is an exploration of power, of the men who have it and the women who dont, and the secrets told to preserve it.

Second Life by SJ Watson is published by Black Swan.

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane James Lee Burke

To my mind this is the best crime novel written in the English language. Lehane describes horrible events with poetic lines that somehow heal the injury that his subject matter involves, not unlike Shakespeare or the creators of the King James Old Testament. Thats not a hyper-bolic statement. His use of metaphysical imagery is obviously influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Mystic River is one for the ages.

Robicheaux by James Lee Burke is published by Orion.

The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes Sara Paretsky

Author Sara Paretsky for Arts. Photo by Linda Nylind. 15/7/2015.

Today, Hughes is remembered for In a Lonely Place (1947) Bogart starred in the 1950 film version. My personal favourite is The Expendable Man (1963). Hughes lived in New Mexico and her love of its bleak landscape comes through in carefully painted details. She knows how to use the land sparingly, so it creates mood. The narrative shifts from the sandscape to the doctor, who reluctantly picks up a teen hitchhiker. When shes found dead a day later, hes the chief suspect, and the secrets we know hes harbouring from the first page are slowly revealed.

Hughess novels crackle with menace. Like a Bauhaus devotee, she understood that in creating suspense, less is more. Insinuation, not graphic detail, gives her books an edge of true terror. Shes the master we all could learn from.

Fallout by Sara Paretsky is published by Hodder.

Killing Floor by Lee Child Dreda Say Mitchell

What is it about any particular novel that means youre so engrossed that you miss your bus stop or stay up way past your bedtime? A spare, concise style that doesnt waste a word. A striking lead character who manages to be both traditional and original. A plot thats put together like a Swiss watch. Childs debut has all these things, but like all great crime novels it has the x-factor.

In the case of Killing Floor that factor is a righteous anger, rooted in personal experience, that makes the book shake in your hands. Its the story of a military policeman who loses his job and gets kicked to the kerb. Jack Reacher becomes a Clint Eastwood-style loner who rides into town and makes it his business to dish out justice and protect the underdog, but without the usual props of cynicism or alcohol. We can all identify with that anger and with that thirst for justice. We dont see much of the latter in real life. At least in Killing Floor we do.

Blood Daughter by Dreda Say Mitchell is published by Hodder.

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Benjamin Black (John Banville)

The Long Goodbye is not the most polished, and certainly not the most convincingly plotted, of Chandlers novels, but it is the most heartfelt. This may seem an odd epithet to apply to one of the great practitioners of hard-boiled crime fiction. The fact is, Chandler was not hard-boiled at all, but a late romantic artist exquisitely attuned to the bittersweet melancholy of post-Depression America. His closest literary cousin is F Scott Fitzgerald.

Philip Marlowes love and surely it is nothing less than love for the disreputable Terry Lennox is the core of the book, the rhapsodic theme that transcends and redeems the creaky storyline and the somewhat cliched characterisation. And if Lennox is a variant of Jay Gatsby, and Marlowe a stand in for Nick Carraway, Fitzgeralds self-effacing but ever-present narrator, then Roger Wade, the drink-soaked churner-out of potboilers that he despises, is an all too recognisable portrait of Chandler himself, and a vengefully caricatured one at that. However, be assured that any pot The Long Goodbye might boil is fashioned from hammered bronze.

Prague Nights by Benjamin Black is published by Viking.

Love in Amsterdam by Nicolas Freeling Ann Cleeves

Although Nicolas Freeling wrote in English he was a European by choice an itinerant chef who roamed between postwar France, Belgium and Holland, and who instilled in me a passion for crime set in foreign places. He detested the rules of the traditional British detective novel: stories in which plot seemed to be paramount. Love in Amsterdam (1962) is Freelings first novel and it breaks those rules both in terms of structure and of theme.

It is a tale of sexual obsession and much of the book is a conversation between the suspect, Martin, whos been accused of killing his former lover, and the cop. Van der Valk, Freelings detective, is a rule-breaker too, curious and compassionate, and although we see his investigative skills in later books, here his interrogation is almost that of a psychologist, teasing the truth from Martin, forcing him to confront his destructive relationship with the victim.

The Seagullby Ann Cleeves is published by Pan.

Laidlaw by William McIlvanney Chris Brookmyre

I first read Laidlaw in 1990, shortly after moving to London, when I was aching for something with the flavour of home, and what a gamey, pungent flavour McIlvanneys novel served up. A sense of place is crucial to crime fiction, and Laidlaw brought Glasgow to life more viscerally than any book I had read before: the good and the bad, the language and the humour, the violence and the drinking.

Laidlaws turf is a male hierarchy ruled by unwritten codes of honour, a milieu of pubs and hard men rendered so convincingly by McIlvanneys taut prose. His face looked like an argument you couldnt win, he writes of one character, encapsulating not only the mans appearance but his entire biography in a mere nine words.

This book made me realise that pacey, streetwise thrillers didnt have to be American: we had mean streets enough of our own. It emboldened me to write about the places I knew and in my own accent.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Laura Lippman

Im going to claim Lolita for crime fiction, something I never used to do. But it has kidnapping, murder and its important to use this term rape. It also has multiple allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and even hides an important clue well, not exactly in plain sight, but in the text of, yes, a purloined letter. And now we know, thanks to the dogged scholarship of Sarah Weinman, that it was based on a real case in the United States. (Weinmans book, The Real Lolita, will be published later this year.)

Dorothy Parker meant well when she said Lolita was a book about love, but, no its about the rape of a child by a solipsistic paedophile who rationalises his actions, another crime that is too often hidden in plain sight. Some think that calling Lolita a crime novel cheapens it, but I think it elevates the book, reminds us of the pedestrian ugliness that is always there, thrumming beneath the beautiful language.

Sunburn by Laura Lippman is published by Faber.

The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald Donna Leon

Ross Macdonald, an American who wrote in the 60s and 70s, has enchanted me since then with the beauty of his writing and the decency of his protagonist, Lew Archer. I envy him his prose: easy, elegant, at times poetically beautiful. I also admire the absence of violence in the novels, for he usually follows Aristotles admonition that gore be kept out of the view of the audience. When Archer discovers the various wicked things one person has done to another, he does not linger in describing it but makes it clear how his protagonist mourns not only the loss of human life but also the loss of humanity that leads to it.

Macdonalds plotting is elegant: often, as Archer searches for the motive for todays crime, he unearths a past injustice that has returned to haunt the present and provoke its violence. His sympathy for the victims is endless, as is his empathy for some of the killers.

The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon is published by William Heinemann.

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Nicci French

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"Wow", "A step backwards", "Hope not" - These Leeds fans react to eye-catching transfer link

According to a report by The Sun on Sunday, Leeds United are considering a summer move to bring former winger Aaron Lennon back to the club, and Whites fans have been quick to react to the rumour when posted by the writer of the article, Alan Nixon, on Twitter.

LEEDS. Already hiding in the bushes outside Aaron Lennon's house. Target for summer once he is fit and they know what league they are in. At BURNLEY just now.

— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) February 3, 2019

The 31-year-old started his career at Elland Road and has since played for Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and now Burnley, where he is currently on the sidelines because of a knee injury he suffered in mid-December, which The Sun on Sunday reports could keep the wide man out of action for the remainder of the campaign.

The Sun on Sunday adds that United manager Marcelo Bielsa is compiling checks on the speedy player as he targets taking the Yorkshire outfit back to the Premier League this term, although their hopes did suffer a blow after they were beaten 3-1 at home by fellow automatic promotion contenders Norwich City on Saturday.

As per Transfermarkt, Lennon has made 22 appearances in all competitions for the Clarets during the current season, scoring one goal and providing one assist.

Leeds supporters took to Twitter to have their say on the story, and while one said “it would be a step backwards”, another said “hope not, he’s well past his best”.

Here is just a selection of the Twitter reaction…

Rather be hiding in the bushes outside @JamesMilner house

— Stephen Dalziel (@dalziel_stephen) February 3, 2019

It would be a step backwards his time at Leeds has come and gone.

— Jack Drury (@JackDrury15) February 3, 2019

we dont want him back surly

— Andy Tunstall (@TunnyMOT) February 3, 2019

Leeds Lad. Ex Leeds Youth Player. Nailed on IF we can get up.

— Scott N. (@Leedzzlad) February 3, 2019

Wow

— Joey ?? (@PontusMagician) February 3, 2019

At 32 years of age?

— Stuart Grant (@McClumsy84) February 3, 2019

Total rubbish. We couldn’t drum up loose change for James!

— worn down (@DBauer191) February 3, 2019

Hope not he’s well past his best

— Jamie (@Jamiepartridg19) February 3, 2019

Complete drivel

— Grecocelt ?? (@Grecocelt) February 3, 2019

Thogden has ranked his top 5 sets of Championship away fans for Pl>ymaker FC. Did your club make the list? Find out in the video below…

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Scottish Gossip: Rangers, Hearts, Forster

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FOOTBALL GOSSIP

Rangers manager Steven Gerrard hopes to make Jake Cooper his tenth summer signing after launching a £3m bid for the Millwall defender. (Herald)[1]

Lee Wallace has been left out of the Rangers squad for the Europa League tie with Shkupi. (Daily Record)[2]

Hearts still hope they can sign Czech Republic striker David Vanecek this summer, despite agreeing a deal for the 27-year-old to join in January. (Daily Record)[3]

Jozo Simunovic says he is in no rush to quit Celtic, despite interest from elsewhere, saying he wants to play in the Champions League. (Daily Record)[4]

Carl McHugh has asked to be stripped of the Motherwell captaincy as he feels it has caused his form to suffer. Instead Peter Hartley will take the armband. (Daily Record)[5]

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Queen of the South manager Gary Naysmith is desperate to sign defender Michael Boyle, but says he faces a fight with “at least one other Championship club after him”. (Daily Record – print edition)

Dumbarton are hoping to tie down striker Michael Paton for next season after he was released by Dunfermline. (Sun – print edition)

Clyde and Stenhousemuir are battling it out for the signature of ex-Aberdeen and Dundee United defender Paul Quinn. (Daily Record – print edition)

Hasim Bakar made a 15-hour round trip from Leicester to try and win a deal at Peterhead. (Daily Record – print edition)

Southampton are willing to listen to offers for former Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster.(Daily Mail)[6]

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OTHER GOSSIP

Andy Murray is convinced the decision to pull out of Wimbledon was a “great decision”, and has avoided during more damage to himself. (Herald)

Scotland sevens boss John Dalziel had a late bid to include Edinburgh wing Darcy Graham in his Rugby World Sevens squad turned down by the pro team. (Scotsman)

References

^ (Herald) (www.eveningtimes.co.uk)

^ (Daily Record) (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)

^ (Daily Record) (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)

^ (Daily Record) (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)

^ (Daily Record) (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)

^ (Daily Mail) (www.dailymail.co.uk)

^ Wednesday’s English Gossip (www.bbc.co.uk)

BBC Sport – Scottish

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