Andrew Drummond (author)

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Andrew Drummond

Andrew Drummond is a Scottish writer, translator and novelist. He was born in Edinburgh and studied at the University of Aberdeen and the University of London. Previously employed full-time as a software engineer, he now pursues his writing full-time.

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He is the author of five novels: An Abridged History of the Construction of a Railway Line Between Ullapool and Lochinver [1] [2] (2004); A Hand-book of Volapük (2006) [3] set in 1890s Scotland; Elephantina (2008); Novgorod the Great (2010); and The Books of the Incarceration of the Lady Grange (2016). He has also written several short stories and some nonfiction translations from German. More recently, he has written a biography of the 18th century adventurer Maurice Benyovszky, entitled The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky (2017), and an account of the attempts to extend rail connections to the north-west Highlands of Scotland, A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway (2020).

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References

  1. Peter Parker (26 September 2004). "Fiction: An Abridged History by Andrew Drummond; The Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 27 November 2014.
  2. Wright, Peter (2010), Ribbon of Wildness: Discovering the Watershed of Scotland, p. 194, ISBN   978-1-906817-45-9
  3. Bill Greenwell (1 September 2006). "Volapük, by Andrew Drummond: Laughter and lunacy in a vanishing language" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

Bibliography

Books

Short stories

Translations (from German)