Category: History

• ALL WE CANNOT LEAVE BEHIND – EDINBURGH LOCATIONS

  

  ‘All We Cannot Leave Behind’, my new novel set around Edinburgh in the first two decades of the 20th century, features many buildings and locations that can still be seen around the city today. Below is a gallery of images of some of the present day locations that feature in and inspired the novel. Click…

  Iain Kelly

  11/03/2024

  Books, creative writing, Fiction, History, Image, novel, photography, Writing

  all we cannot leave behind, car, creative writing, edinburgh, Fiction, history, holyrood, insipration, jenners, literature, location, monument, novel, royal mile, scott, waverley, Writing

• BRITAIN’S SECRET HISTORY

  The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 Keith Jeffrey To mark the centenary of the creation of both the British Security Service and Secret Service (they both started as one organisation before evolving into the two separate  organisations early on), both MI5 and MI6 opened…

  Iain Kelly

  22/04/2011

  Books, Commentary, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Review

  book review, christopher andrew, commentary, culture, espionage, history, keith jeffrey, literary, literature, MI5, MI6, non-fiction, Review, reviews, SIS, spies