I am re-reading (for the umpteenth time) Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel 'Islandia'. Published in 1942, after his death, it's a detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, language, culture and literature. For those who wish for utopia in these poor times (and can move themselves in mind back to 1905) this is a fine read. Obviously I like it: I've two dog-eared second editions and a pristine first . And several follow-ons not quite up to the superb work of ATW.

Spelling off, I am also reading 'Chasing the Deer: Hunting Iconography, Literature and Tradition of the Scottish Highlands' the 2007 doctoral thesis of Andrew EM Wiseman, and 'Burghead, Moray: a History of archeological thought' a Masters dissertation by Christine I. Clerk, 2019, and have just finished 'Macpherson Country: genealogical identities, spatial histories...' by Paul Basu.