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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“Warm and witty … a pure pleasure.” Harriet Tyce
Morningside librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, and deeply resents a well-known novel she believes has unfairly tarnished its reputation.
In 1788 Edinburgh, the city is celebrating Robert Burns on his second visit to the capital. Burns would much rather be back in Ayrshire with his beloved Jean, but his publisher has him touring society – and his supposed muse, Nancy McLehose, is encouraging him to adopt a more marketable persona.
Shona finds herself caught up helping a teenager, Burns’s ardent admirer Walter Scott, while becoming part of a circle of clever, ambitious women. But when she is framed for the capital crime of housebreaking and condemned to the Tolbooth, she must rely on her ingenuity – and her allies – to clear her name. As events spiral, how will she resolve this muddle without bringing Enlightenment society crashing down?
REVIEWS OF Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogues
"A witty, vividly imagined romp through Enlightenment Edinburgh—utterly irresistible." Dr Ainsley McIntosh, Assistant Director of the Walter Scott Research Centre, University of Aberdeen
“The book is a sheer delight, packed with wickedly-clever humour and an unerring eye for human foibles” S.G. MacLean, multi-award-winning author
“Warm and witty … unexpected and joyful … Olga’s voice is so distinctive and it’s a pure pleasure to read another instalment in the Miss Blaine series.” Harriet Tyce, bestselling author
