Family Matters
A Traveller's Tales of Scotland and Australia, in Scots and English
Drew Grozier
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Synopsis
Drew Grozier presents a collection of short stories and verse, some of which were read live to air on Toowoomba radio in 2010.
The collection also includes a handful of poems written by the author's sister, E. S. Munn of Dunipace, Scotland.
The author makes no apology for the use of the Lallans in some of the verse herein. However, recognizing that the majority of the peoples of the Earth read only standard English, and wishing to share his stories with as wide an audience as possible, most of the included works are in the latter speak.
However, his love of the old Scots tongue being equalled only by his passion for strong women, single malt whisky and the road before him, ensures that there will always be some part of his work that is forever Scotland.
About The Author
Drew Grozier is a freelance journalist. He has worked for APN News Ltd in Queensland on the South Burnett Times and the Warwick Daily
News as a casual journalist, and with the Toowoomba Mail as an advertising consultant. He has also had travel articles published in the Brisbane Sunday Sun
and The Clifton Courier, and has been writing full-length fiction and non-fiction books since January 2006, including the novels Blood Heritage and its forthcoming sequel Blood Armour, which are two full-length works of historical fiction written around the legends of the 6th Century Arthur of
the Battles.
Drew returned to live in his native Scotland to research his books, and now lives in Toowoomba, Queensland, where he is a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and Clifton
Writers.
From The Book
Sometimes I looked across the junction of the two roads that cut the village square into four quarters. The war memorial in one quarter, and sad patches of weeds and grass surrounded by rusting iron railings in the other three. Cottages lined the outside edge of the two quarters on the opposite side from the pub, across the east-west Edinburgh to Stirling road; the old Roman road, my Da said.
The other north-south road was to us the school road, a steep hill, with the infants and primary school buildings at the top.
But my eye was always drawn to Mr Tam Bain perched on the chimney - smoke coming out of his top hat...
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