Customer Reviews

Maybe not what you expect - By: catholic reader, 15 Sep 2008
If you are looking for an autobiography, or revelations about Ursula Andress or Honor Blackman, then this will be a great disappointment. It is,in large part an opinionated review of Sctoland, something like the rock stars views on global warming,Tibet or PETA, & does ccasionally raise the question of 'so what?' However if you read it as a general overview of Scotland, its culture, development & background, then this is a very well written, thoughtful,thought-provoking & well produced book. Of course his perspective is different from that of most of us, his fame & wealth make that almost unavoidable. Some of it, his recommendations on the Iraqi War based 'Black Watch' play, for example, border on the patronizing - & may even be counter productivein getting his views across. On the whole it is a very worthwhile read.