The Monarch of the Glen

It's a great book. While it's a very different Glenbogle from the TV shows, it captures a lot of the spirit of the same place. It's not too hard to fill in the intervening years and feel a continuity of life at the Castle. I also enjoyed the fact that the whiny angst of some of the TV characters is pretty much absent, while the power of the laird hellbent on following his idiosyncratic notion of life as a laird with his sidekicks... Read Full Review

I started with the TV version (BBC America) and found the book different -- and funnier.

I had never heard of Compton Mackenzie until a few years ago when I rescued a copy of "Hunting the Fairies" from a newspaper recycling bin (a guy in our town died and his idiot family dumped his book collection---I rescued hundreds for our library book sale.) "Hunting the Fairies" was that rare book which made me laugh out loud and also feel warm and uplifted. The Monarch of the Glen continues with some of the same characters... Read Full Review

For anyone familiar with the very popular BBC series Monarch of the Glen, much in this audio book will ring familiar. And, for those unfortunate not to be familiar with the series, the book will be an entree into the world of a Scottish Highland Chieftan of the 20th Century.The tale takes place in Scotland in the early 1940's at the castle Glenbogle, the ancestral estate of the Clan MacDonald. The patriarch is a stodgy old... Read Full Review