The Kirkcudbright Book Week Podcast
Arts:Books
Stuart Campbell talks about the Buchanites and his book The Woman clothed with the sun
Stuart Campbell has previously written for the BBC, the
,
and
. He is the editor of
, an anthology of Robert Louis Stevenson’s love poetry, and author of
, a novel set in Leith and sixteenth-century Holland. He has also written a second novel,
, and two travelogues,
and
. He is an obsessive book collector and recently represented The Republic of Ireland at walking football. His latest novel,
,tells the extraordinary true-life story of Elspeth Buchan and the Buchanites, an eighteenth-century Scottish apocalyptic sect based in Galloway at the time of Robert Burns. In this talk he will discuss the research undertaken in Dumfries and Galloway in search of the Buchanities and the difficulties involved in fictionalising such an extraordinary tale.
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