Andrew Drummond is a Scottish writer,

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and

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. He was born in

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and studied at the

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and the

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. Previously employed full-time as a

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, he now pursues his writing full-time. He is the

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of five novels: ''An Abridged History of the Construction of a Railway Line Between Ullapool and Lochinver'' (2004); ''A Hand-book of

Volapük Volapük (; , "Language of the World", or lit. "World Speak") is a constructed language created between 1879 and 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Catholic priest in Baden, Germany, who believed that God had told him in a dream to create an i ...

'' (2006) set in 1890s Scotland; ''Elephantina'' (2008); ''Novgorod the Great'' (2010); and ''The Books of the Incarceration of the

Lady Grange Rachel Chiesley (baptised 4 February 1679 – 12 May 1745), usually known as Lady Grange, was the wife of James Erskine, Lord Grange, Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobitism, Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage and ...

'' (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 Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó ( hu, Benyovszky Máté Móric Mihály Ferenc Szerafin Ágost; pl, Maurycy Beniowski; sk, Móric Beňovský; 20 September 1746 – 24 May 1786) was a renowned military officer, adventurer, and writ ...

, 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 The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Sco ...

, ''A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway'' (2020).

References

Bibliography

Books

* 2004. ''An Abridged History''. Edinburgh: Polygon. * 2006. ''A Hand-book of Volapük''. Edinburgh: Polygon. * 2008. ''Elephantina''. Edinburgh: Polygon. * 2010. ''Novgorod the Great''. Edinburgh: Polygon. * 2016. ''The Books of the Incarceration of the Lady Grange''. Edinburgh. * 2017. ''The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky''. New York/London: Routledge. * 2020. ''A Quite Impossible Proposal – How Not to Build a Railway''. Edinburgh: Birlinn.

Short Stories

* 2002. ''A Chronicle of the World 1840–1893.'' In: ''Writing Wrongs''. Edinburgh: Canongate. * 2012. ''Dr Calvin's Grand Illuminated Bestial Pleasure Dome'' In: ''Unfit for Eden, Postcripts Anthology 26/27''. Hornsea: PS Publishing. * 2013. ''The Providential Preservation of the Universal Bibliographic Repository.'' In: ''Memoryville Blues, Postcripts Anthology 30/31.'' Hornsea: PS Publishing. * 2014. ''One Hundred Thousand Demons and the Cherub of Desire.'' In: ''Far Voyager, Postcripts Anthology 32/33.'' Hornsea: PS Publishing.

Translations (from German)

* 1983. ''Letters on Capital.'' London: New Park. * 1991. ''And Red is the Colour of Our Flag.'' London: New Park. * 1992. ''Trotsky and the Russian Social-Democratic Controversy over comparative revolutionary history.'' In: ''The Trotsky Reappraisal'', Brotherstone e Dukes (red.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

External links

Author's web site2004 Interview
focusing on ''An Abridged History''

focusing on ''A Hand-Book of Volapük''
Review of ''A Hand-Book of Volapük''
by Peter Burnett

by Jim Henry Scottish translators German–English translators Scottish novelists Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Writers from Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Volapük {{UK-translator-stub