A moving and satisfying blend of tragedy and comedy, Blood Hunt, Gunn’s second last novel, has a powerful message – the triumph of love over anger and of the unending renewal of nature. It is a masterly novel by a writer in full maturity.

Butcher’s Broom is Neil Gunn’s epic recreation of the Highland Clearances of the nineteenth century, when great changes swept through the country and its people.

First published in 1946, The Drinking Well is part of a Polygon series of Neil M. Gunn republications. Iain Cattanach lives happily in a small tight-knit Highland village, but his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him.

Told fully in Highland dialect, The Green Isle of the Great Deep is a both a wonderful Scottish parable and a warning of the dangers of power and its abuse.

Having reviewed his life, including fighting in World War I, a mature Scottish man reaches the source of the river he had grown up near in the Highlands. He realizes that the magic he had experienced there as a child was in fact always present in his erstwhile nihilistic life.

When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead – but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money?

Opening with a premonition of death, this is the story of a young man's conflict with the spiritual authority of his father, of a spirit of scepticism set against an authoritarian Calvinism.

A story of love and awakening, Breeta's people are the ancient, newly Christianized Pictish tribes living in Northern Scotland in the 9th century. Assailed by the pagan Vikings from across the sea, the clash of old and new is a conflict from which the Scottish nation is forged.