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The small seaside town of Lunderston is the setting for these thirteen entertaining tales from Robin Jenkins.

        
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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.

        
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A Scots Quair, is Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

    

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Robin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for Leila, a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician.

                
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The Sardana Dancers is an intriguing and compassionate novel about the interweaving lives of a variety of characters who are caught up in a sort of sardana – a Catalan dance performed for pleasure and as a symbol of unity.

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’Part of the trilogy, A Scots Quair, Sunset Song is a book about change, war, politics and, above all else, what it means to be Scottish.’ - Nicola Sturgeon, MSP

    
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Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiance, Laura Johnstone, in the capital of his home country. Having met while Abdul was a student at Manchester University, the couple are eager to settle down in Isban. However, Abdul is not the only one interested in Miss Johnstone’s arrival.

    
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Beginning in the fictional seaport of Bideford Quay in Devon, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this novel follows the fortunes of Amyas Leigh, a young man who sets sail on a life of adventure on the high seas.
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Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn.

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This gripping novel, first published in 1960, helped confirm Robin Jenkins as one of the most outstanding novelists of his generation. Set in Afghanistan, it was written shortly after his return from his two-year period in Kabul, and his experiences there add an unmistakeable ring of authenticity to his descriptions of this mysterious and remote country. Some Kind of Grace is a terrible warning of what outside interference can do to a country. Throughout the book Jenkins’ sympathy is with a people sacrificed on the altar of dogma and convenience by the great powers of East and West.

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic adventure story offers a dreamlike vision of prehistoric life and opens up new vistas to the imagination. This is a classic science-fiction tale from the 1930s, with an introduction by Ian Campbell.

    
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A powerful novel set in the twelfth century that explores universal questions aligned with the concepts of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.

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The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller’s last novel.

            
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In this, his first novel (1972), George MacKay Brown recreates a week in the life of an island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star.

        
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The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. When the team’s luck begins to change, the whole town unites to support them.

        

        
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Poverty Castle is an absorbing work of contrasts and subtle irony centred around an idealistic family in Argyll. A compelling novel, it deals with human nature and the socialism of industrial Glasgow.

                
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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.

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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.

        
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In Love is a Fervent Fire Jenkins plumbs the depths of the subtlest human emotions in a brilliant study of sexual psychology.         
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Set in Glasgow, Jenkins' novel tells the tale of Mungo Niven, a man who possesses a fiercely Scotch conscience and who feels trapped in a drab and unfulfilling existence.
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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.

        
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An inspired study of human nature, The Missionaries charts a voyage of self-discovery for Andrew Doig, a university student who finds himself embroiled in a passionate debate over his defence of the inhabitants of St Sollas.  

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Northern Lights presents George Mackay Brown’s writings on many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed his vision and work.

        
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Regarded by many critics as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Midwinter tells the tale of Alastair Maclean, confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England. With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.

    

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Buchan’s favourite of all his novels, Witch Wood deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance. Minister Sempill witnesses devil worship in the ’Witch Wood’ and is persecuted. With an introduction by Allan Massie.

    

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Buchan skilfully weaves the story of young clerk Peter Pentecost, who has a claim to the throne, and a tale of intrigue against King Henry VIII, where ’under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless’. With an introduction by Robert Hutchinson.

    

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The rivalry of two cousins results in treachery, betrayal and a desperate struggle for survival. With an introduction by Tam Dalyell.

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South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John.

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When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, leaves his home town for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue.

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