Minstrel Heart
A Life in Story
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About the Book:
Guruji said: ‘Sing not the song that others have sung. Sing only what you yourself have realised in your own heart.’
What I’ve realised in my own heart is that its song is for many, that it sings for whom it meets on its way. It does not remain at home, but is a wandering minstrel heart.
This book is the engaging and colourful memoir of celebrated Scottish storyteller David Campbell. It is an exploration of the nature of love in its many guises, and of David’s lifelong love of story.
Join David as he tells his story from childhood in wartime Fraserburgh to a holiday job with a dramatic and life-changing conclusion, through a pivotal role as a bbc radio producer at the time of the Scottish renaissance of writing, drama and folk traditions, and finally to his international career as an acclaimed storyteller, mentored by celebrated tinker-traveller Duncan Williamson.
The roots of things in my life have always been the love of words, stories, poetry and people, and the joy of bringing them together; it is there that I find the deepest meaning and the sweetest music.
Reviews:
A glorious chronicle. Campbell fills the pages with pure delight. CATHERINE LOCKERBIE
David’s journey takes us through the story of Scotland’s re-birth in all its subversive energy. This book is the poetry of memory combined with the art of storytelling. DONALD SMITH, Director of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Brendan Bracken, a friend of Chruchill, posed as 16-year-old schoolboy. A new memoir claims the former wartime minister set up a bogus school to satisfy his caning fetish. THE SUNDAY TIMES
One of Scotland’s most celebrated storytellers reflects on his love of words throughout the last eight decades of his life in a brand new memoir. THE NATIONAL
Candid, absorbing … Campbell evokes the captivating vision of a time of adventure and opportunity, when people owned less but perhaps dared more. He also drops a bombshell concerning a member of Churchill’s cabinet, kept to himself until now, that even the most imaginative storyteller couldn’t make up. ALASTAIR MABBOTT, THE HERALD
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About the Author:
DAVID CAMPBELL was born in Edinburgh and spent his childhood in the story-and song-rich North-East of Scotland where he acquired a lifelong passion for poetry and the power of the spoken word. He graduated with Honours in English from the University of Edinburgh. He then worked with BBC Radio Scotland for many years devising, scripting and directing a wide variety of radio programmes. He has also reviewed books and drama extensively in the Scottish press and has published poems and short stories in the Scottish literary magazines Chapman, Words and Textualities. He co-wrote the children’s book The Three Donalds (Scottish Children’s Press, 1996), wrote two collections of stories – Tales to tell I & II (St Andrews Press, 1986 and 1994) and Out of the Mouth of the Morning (Luath Press, 2009). He is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s finest storytellers as a popular ambassador of Scottish lore and literature, he has toured worldwide with his repertoire of talks and stories. He currently lives in Edinburgh.