If we Unreliable Narrators know anything at all, it’s that memory is a fickle and fallible creature. In good faith we pack our bags to take an honest trip down Memory Lane only to find reminiscences running into one another like dye, all swirling colours and patchy conversation. Try as we might to pin it down, the past wriggles out of our grasp, leaving us to try and plug the gaps with half-faded whos, wheres, hows and whys.
In this new issue, we open our big Book of Lives to introduce the stories behind a selection of Scottish memoirs – the personal, historical, and fictional.
Editorial
Articles
- ‘What can this work be?’: James Hogg and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Gillian Hughes)
- Born in Kyle: A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood (Billy Kay)
- Haste Ye Back: Dorothy K. Haynes and the Importance of Childhood Memory (Craig Lamont)
- Memorialising Through Memoirs: Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript (Leith Davis)