Olga Wojtas
Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and witty – writer of cosy crime fiction whose surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of P.G. Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde, Blackadder and the Marx Brothers. She was born and brought up in Edinburgh, where she attended James Gillespie’s High School – the model for the Marcia Blaine School for Girls (in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). Olga won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2014, and has amassed an impressive following for the Miss Blaine’s Prefect series, as well as several award nominations. A journalist for more than 30 years, Olga was Scottish editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement before she began adding creative writing to her portfolio.
Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues
by Olga Wojtas
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Fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls with a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name.
It’s 1788, and Shona has travelled back in time and turned up in the Assembly Rooms. Edinburgh society is lionising Burns on his second visit to the capital. He’d rather be in Ayrshire with Jean, but his publisher has made him go on tour, and his supposed muse, Nancy McLehose, has told him to adopt the persona of A Lad to boost reader interest.
Shona also finds herself helping Burns’s greatest fan, the teenage Walter Scott, and being welcomed into a group of female intellectuals. But when she is framed for the capital crime of housebreaking and condemned to the Tolbooth, who can help her? As the plot continues to thicken, what will happen to the Enlightenment and these resourceful women?
