JIM HEWITSONS ORIGINAL SCOTS MISCELLANY

Jim Hewitson

TITLE JIM HEWITSONS ORIGINAL SCOTS MISCELLANY
AUTHOR JIM HEWITSON
CATEGORY SCOTTISH/NON-FICTION
PUB DATE SEPTEMBER 2003
ISBN 1 902927 84 2
EXTENT 192 pp.
USUAL PRICE 9.99
FORMAT 185 x 110 mm, HARDBACK
ILLUSTRATION BLACK AND WHITE LINE



My father did tell me I came from Covenanter stock and that Robbie Burns once bought one of my ancestors a drink. Turns out our Covenanters were actually sheep rustlers and apparently the bold Burns left the bar without paying. But I am not downhearted.
JIM HEWITSON

Jim Hewitsons Scotland is a gey strange place. And this broth of off-cuts from the past, contemporary attitudes, outlandish lists, absurd tables, historical and hysterical trivia and off-the-wall observations is certainly one of the most curious Scottish books of the new millennium. In it, facts and figures collide with couthy anecdotes and unlikely yarns, all of which are shot through with that mystical ingredient which Jim has been trying to drag to the surface for thirty years: Scottishness.

What are the ten most obscure clan mottoes?
Which is the wettest place in Scotland?
What are the most frequently used reponses to Scotlands beggers?
And is the Glasgow Underground haunted?

By the time youve got to the end of this miscellany, youll be no nearer finding out who you are but you will be able to answer a thousand questions which no one has ever thought to ask before.

JIM HEWITSON has been a journalist, lobster fisherman, gypsy, author, graveyard grass-cutter and broadcaster and is currently an immature student at the University of Aberdeen. He worked for the Herald for twenty-five years and is a regular contributor to radio and television on Scottish history and island life. His books include the cheeky thesaurus of Scottishness, Astonishing Scotland!, and two important studies of Scots overseas Tam Blake & Co. and Far Off in Sunlit Places.