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Photograph: DC Thompson/Dandy/PA When the last great struggle for 's soul is at an end, Alex Salmond may yet have cause to thank the nation's kenspeckle comic publishers, DC Thomson.

After reading the ending of Mortal Coil, I wasn't really looking forward to it, there will be no Tanith, no Kenspeckle, less of Ghastly, and vampire love - how could this novel possibly be good?

A vagrant with white mice is a kenspeckle, and surely you can have no difficulty in tracing her.

But when she took it she said—ay, I mind weel what my bonny woman said,—'It is sae bonny and sae kenspeckle,' said she, 'that I think I'll keep it for the sake of the giver.'

When we reached Blackford Hall I found more than a kenspeckle countryside to remind me of homeland.