Currently available on BBC Sounds: an 8-part adaptation of Elspeth Barker’s 𝘖 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢, the brilliant, dark & funny tale of Janet – dreamy, misunderstood & ultimately doomed, who lives a life of imagination in a bleak castle in north-east Scotland… #Booksky 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Via @literaryhub.bsky.social Maggie O’Farrell called 𝘖 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 “one of those books you proselytize about; you want to beckon others aboard its glorious train… I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named [it] as her favourite book” 💙📚 lithub.com/maggie-ofarr...

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“Here it was that Janet was found, oddly attired in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted and slumped in bloody, murderous death.” —Elspeth Barker’s 𝘖 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 (1991) is a #gothic (& darkly comic) tale of a young girl’s coming-of-age – & sudden untimely death #BookWormSat #Booksky

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Fasaig Village earlier this morning. The Munro 'Liathach' behind.

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For #RomancingTheGothic, Dr @romgothsam.bsky.social looks at the tradition of demonic depiction in the Scottish #Gothic, in the work of James Hogg, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, & James Robertson #BookWormSat youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q

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