Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Josephine Tey, Fleeming Jenkin, J. M. Barrie, Joanna Baillie, A. J. Cronin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Janey Godley, George Buchanan, David Lyndsay, Alasdair Gray, Andrew Macdonald, Glenn Chandler, Henry Brougham Farnie, Willy Maley, Andrew Halliday, Marion Adams-Acton, John Home, John Glashan, John Byrne, Sharman Macdonald, Henry Mackenzie, Robert Mclellan, William Lauder, David Harrower, John Hay Beith, Peter Mcdougall, Rona Munro, William Gillies, Scottish Society of Playwrights, Graham Moffat, Storer Clouston, Simon Farquhar, Robert David Macdonald, Nicholas Stuart Gray, John Davidson, Chris Ballance, Anne Downie, John Mcgrath, Cecil Philip Taylor, Stephen Greenhorn, Alexander Dow, William Tennant, Roddy Mcmillan, James Bridie, Liz Lochhead, Gregory Burke, Gavin Greig, David Greig, Tom Mcgrath, Joe Corrie, Douglas Maxwell, Freddie Anderson, Iain Lauchlan, David Mallet, Tom Gallacher, Andrew P. Wilson, Suzanne Enoch, Robert Kemp, Paul Morris, W. Gordon Smith, D C Jackson, Deborah Wallace, Alexander Reid, Kenny Murray. Excerpt: A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist . His best-known works are Hatter's Castle , The Stars Look Down , The Citadel , The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years , all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook . Early life Rosebank Cottage, Cronin's birthplace Cronin was born at Rosebank Cottage in Cardross , Dunbartonshire , the only child of a Protestant mother, Jessie Cronin (née Montgomerie ), and a Catholic father of Irish extraction, Patrick Cronin, and would later write of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. His p...