Reay Tannahill
Encyclopedia
Reay Tannahill was a Scottish
historian
and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction
bestsellers: Food in History and Sex in History.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
bestsellers: Food in History and Sex in History.
Non-fiction works
- Regency England: The Great Age of the Colour Print (1964)
- Paris in the Revolution (1966)
- The Fine Art of Food (1969)
- Food in History, Stein and DayStein and DayStein and Day, Inc. was an American publishing company founded by Sol Stein and his wife Patricia Day in 1962. Stein was both the publisher and the editor-in-chief...
publishers (1973) - Flesh and Blood (1975)
- Sex in History (1980)
Historical Fiction
- A Dark and Distant Shore (1983)
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1985)
- Passing Glory (1989)
- In Still and Stormy Waters (1992)
- Return of the Stranger (1995)
- Fatal Majesty (1998)
- The Seventh Son (2001)
- Having the Builders in (2006)
External links
- Obituary in The Times, 27 December 2007
- A Dark and Distant Shore: Tannahill's working papers, research notes and draft copies (ref. DM1294/9/4/3) Penguin Archive, University of Bristol Library Special Collections