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Jim Courtney is protected by all the wealth and influence that his family's successful business, the Courtney Brothers Trading Company, can provide in the Dutch-owned colonies of South Africa. Louisa Leuven is an orphaned young woman who escaped the plague only to be unjustly imprisoned and transported to the Cape. When a storm destroys her prison ship, Jim is her only hope of escape. But Louisa and Jim have greater adventures in the African wilds ahead of them.

In another life, Arthur Leywin was a king and no stranger to war. He was not ready, however, to find himself at the heart of a conflict that would reshape his entire new world. Despite his abilities, it seems as if the danger only increases with every discovery he makes.

Join us for a unique tour of Alasdair Gray’s Glasgow in ‘Magnificent Vistas’.  In this Alasdair Gray Archive podcast, we uncover how Gray’s perspective bending landscapes unfold across his writing and art practice and re-invent the city around him. By closely examining early, un-published sketches held in the Alasdair Gray Archive, as well as exploring celebrated works such as Cowcaddens Streetscape in the Fifties(1964) and his City Recorder series (1977), Magnificent Vistas reveals key connections between Gray’s seminal novel Lanark and his artistic output.  The podcast was first ...