St Andrews in Literature

[donkey]

Does anyone know of any novels - historical or otherwise, good or otherwise - that feature St Andrews?

[Al]

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

[queen of scots]

'Return of the Stranger' - Reay Tannahill

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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

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[The Penguin Of Death!]

Enid Blyton's 'Last Term at Malory Towers'


Perhaps not a great novel but it's why I decided, aged 7, that I was going to end up here!!!

[novium]

quick! someone write a best-selling novel feature our fair city. I want a scene set in the bop. Come on, i know there must be some budding writers out there.

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Neither the storms of crisis, nor the breezes of ambition could ever divert him, either by hope or by fear, from the course that he had chosen

[Bizarre Atheist]

'A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland' - Johnson and Boswell - has a brief chapter on St Andrews.

Robert Crawford edited a collection of short stories that feature St Andrews - I think it's simply called 'The Book of St Andrews'.

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[bdw]

It's poetry (of a sort) rather than a novel but R.F. Murray's The Scarlet Gown, being verses by a St. Andrews Man (1891) is worth a gander, if only for the unforgettable verses:

"And ere an answer I could frame,
He said that Irving
Of his extraordinary fame
Was undeserving,

And for his part he thought more highly
Of Ellen Terry;
Although he knew a girl named Riley
At Broughty Ferry"

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[Kizzy]

'The Mushroom Club', by Andrew Murray Scott, has heavy references to the university. Well, it does at the beginning!

[floatingonmycloud]

'An Unquiet Mind' by Kay Redfield Jamison - she studied at St Andrews.

[bdw]

There's also Curtis Gillespie's charming "Playing Through", which, while being in the main a whimsical account of the Canadian author's life and times in Gullane, does contain flashbacks from his uni days in St Andrews (including a painfully familiar opening scene in which he wakes up after a night on the sauce next to the flag from the Old Course's 18th).

[Icarus]

St Andrews crops up in one of Ian Rankin's Rebus books if memory serves. I think it's in three whole pages of 'The Falls.'

[James01]

I wrote a story/script with St Andrews in it, and better still, it had a bop scene! (If you went to Halfcut 08, you'll know what i'm talking about.

[JohnMac]

Harry Potter? Is that not set in St Andrews?

[Thingy]

"An Eye for an Eye" by Frank Muir. It's pretty awful. It describes the cathedral as Siamese twin rockets.

[Kelly]

"Emotionally Weird" by Kate Atkinson mainly focuses on Dundee but St Andrews features in there every so often.

[Starla]

There's a new one (?) in the window of Waterstones at the moment. It's a murder mystery I think.

penguinofdeath, I totally agree

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"We all live in our Fantasy and only endure our Reality..." - R.A.Wilson

[Orcas]

Banquet for the Dammed. Reading it at the moment, not really my type of book, but not too bad. Funny reading about a place that you know well though.

[beeny]

Quoting James01 from 14:32, 5th Jun 2008
I wrote a story/script with St Andrews in it, and better still, it had a bop scene! (If you went to Halfcut 08, you'll know what i'm talking about.

I really think we were meaning more famous authors.... Though I didn't attend Halfcut, or any student run film festival full of over-budding egos, I could probably safely assume that most student filmmakers would set scenes within the environment most natural to them.

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'But what do I know? I'm a bear; I suck the heads off fish.'

[Delts]

A lot of her books are set in St Andrews.

Quoting Al from 09:02, 5th Jun 2008
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

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Quotes: For when you can think of nothing to say yourself.

[Cain]

Maddie Alderson is a former Chattan girl who wrote a novel about a grown up former Chattan girl.

I don't remember the name, and I only read the first few chapters (I was quite enjoying it, but I could only read it at certain times).

All I remember is that the first line was I have nothing against homosexuals, I just didn't expect my husband to be one

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I hold an element of surprise