Growling in the Kennel of Justice

In unfolding the backstory of the Bard’s life and working through the voices of 22 lawyers from Burns’s era, Allan Nicolson subtly unravels a tale at once familiar and new – even startling at times. Blending Burns’s verse, correspondence and law reports of the time, Nicolson has been able to build up a novel analysis of the legacy of the Scottish poet. Steeped in the atmosphere of that era, the na...