Whispering Gallery, Issue 155

‘There is no excitement like this business of writing,’ concludes Dorothy Dunnett in a talk she gave to a writers’ group in Perthshire in 1970 that discusses research, location visits, the potential perils of writing two series in parallel, and the dramas of domestic life that keep the writer from her work. Read the transcript in full in this issue.

We examine the parallels between Dorothy L. Sayers’ aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Francis Crawford of Lymond, and the cover art of the Niccolò paperback editions that were published at the turn of the century.

Our last article in our series about the evolving Christian world that forms the background to Thorfinn’s story looks at the idea of salvation and what that meant in the medieval world. Bringing the series back to Thorfinn himself, it concludes with a short piece that analyses the final conversation he holds with Sulien in Birsay.

Contents

• The Chairman’s Column
• Trustees’ Notice Board
• Members’ Page
• The Dunnett Weekend
• A Tow-haired Hero
• The Plan de Bâle
• More Pollock than Mondrian: Christianity in the First Millennium, part 6
• Wrapping Up Dunnett
• ‘What Am I Missing?’, part 3
• My Story, part 5
• From the Dunnett Archive: Pitlochry Writers’ Weekend
• A Dunnett Lexicon
• Talking Point
• That’s Relevant!

Published May 2022