Roderick Watson was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. A recently retired professor at Stirling University, he has lectured and published widely on modern Scottish literature and currently co-edits the Journal of Stevenson Studies. His main poetry collections are True History on the Walls (1977) and Into the Blue Wavelengths (2004).
8 Ebooks by Roderick Watson
Norman MacCaig: The Many Days
First published in 2010 to mark the centenary of Norman Mac Caig’s birth, The Many Days aims to strike a balance between representing the much-loved poems that any reader would expect to find in a se …
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€8.39
Norman MacCaig: Between Mountain and Sea
'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman Mac Caig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no othe …
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€5.99
Roderick Watson: Literature of Scotland
Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country’s languages – Ga …
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€39.19
Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has proven itself to be a tale of undiminished power for readers all over the world. But the st …
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€10.27
Roderick Watson: Literature of Scotland
Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country’s languages – Ga …
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€39.07
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Scottish Novels
Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson.Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and b …
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€16.46
Nan Shepherd: The Grampian Quartet
Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson.The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of …
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€15.34
Nan Shepherd: Quarry Wood
Introduced by Roderick Watson.When Martha gains a place at the university, her achievement is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. It is there that she meets Luke …
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€10.33
