PRINCE CHARLIE AND His LADIES— Compton Mackenzie—Knopf ($3). Monarchy’s sun may be setting, but monarchists are still loyal to their lost causes in many a stoutly republican country. The ...

Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Scottish writer, narrowly escaped prison after he gave away state secrets and agents’ identities in a wartime memoir, a new history of MI6 has revealed.

Classic Compton Mackenzie put-downs James McCarthy Tuesday, January 29, 2013 ...

Sir Compton Mackenzie is today best remembered for writing two comic novels set in Scotland - The Monarch of the Glen, which inspired the BBC drama series of the same name, and the much-loved ...

A true polymath, Sir Compton Mackenzie launched the magazine that is soon to mark its centenary ...

Can a Scottish laird marriage plans for his son survive a clash with hikers?

Om writes that there’s been changes at Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He says partners Kevin Compton and Doug Mackenzie “are leaving the ...

Magnus Linklater had an agonising choice in his collection of 100 Scottish legends - whether to include his novelist father.

A rediscovery of writing by the first wife of celebrated novelist Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie. Two neglected works, her last novel and first book, a collection of short stories, are ...

Such islands are mostly far away; but to rediscover the forgotten and reoccupy the abandoned ones is work for R. M. Lockley, Compton Mackenzie, Fraser Darling, Seton Gordon, and other men of like ...