Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland - Softcover

'A colourful, colloquial and considered meditation on how history, landscape and culture have created the modern nation' -- The Big Issue

'A fascinating account of the history and current affairs of Scotland' -- Malcolm Rifkind, Prospect

'Acherson is a brilliant writer on Scottish affairs and his investigation of the national conciousness is both fascinating and original' -- Ian MacWhirter, Sunday Herald

‘A richly textured and most unusual meditation on Scotland...inspiring’ -- Andrew Marr, Observer Books of the Year

‘An intelligent and robust addition to the debate north of the border' -- Matthew Morgan, Observer

‘Ascherson is a brilliant writer on Scottish affairs and his investigation of the national consciousness is both fascinating and original.’ -- Iain MacWhirter, Sunday Herald

‘Ascherson is one of the most stylish and erudite journalists around’ -- James Campbell, Sunday Telegraph

‘Beautifully written...full of surprising revelations...and with a range of reference which is breathtaking in its scope.’ -- Magnus Linklater, Spectator

‘Provides a scholarly and poetic explanation of the emotional roots of Scottish nationalism’ -- Anthony Sampson, New Statesman Books of the Year

‘This journey through the mind and inclination of the Scots is an absorbing one, beautifully written...full of surprising revelations' --Magnus Linklater, Spectator

'Stylish, erudite and thought-provoking' --Irish Times

'Stylish, erudite and thought-provoking' --Irish Times

'Erudite and thorough' --Sunday Herald

'A classic history-cum-memoir' --Daily Telegraph

'Expect to be surprised and delighted... In Stone Voices, Ascherson's eclectic, intellectual search sweeps quite breathtakingly across history, geography, society, politics and with a biographical thread running through it. If you want to understand why, after over three centuries of successful Union, an internationalist who loves his country believes Scotland is inexorably drifting away from the UK and towards continental Europe, read this book' --'Book of the Year', Scotland on Sunday

'A classic history-cum-memoir' --Daily Telegraph

Neal Ascherson was born in Edinburgh in 1932. Sustaining a long career in journalism, he has written for The Observer (1960-1990) and the Independent on Sunday (1990-1998). He contributed scripts for the 1974 documentary series World at War and the 1998 series The Cold War. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His own books include The Polish August (1981), Black Sea (1995) and Stone Voices (2002).