The Cone-Gatherers
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher: Canons
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780857862358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: London: Macdonald, 1955.
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The Cone-gatherers
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Pearl Fishers
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0857900226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Worthy of the greatest respect throughout the English-language world' - Paul Binding, Guardian 'Pared down to a sharp clarity, the prose of this novel cuts out all excess to show the cross-currents running through the heart of a community' - Times Literary Supplement 'Breathtaking in its simple beauty and honest heart' - Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue (Scotland) 'Jenkins is a remarkable writer whose gentlest touch induces the greatest of pleasures' - The Times When a family of travelling pearl-fishers arrives in a small Scottish town, the inhabitants react in their own different ways, from warmth to outright rejection. But how will they respond when love seems to blossom between local man Gavin Hamilton and the beautiful pearl-fisher Effie? The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller's last novel.
The Changeling
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher:
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781786893994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Forbes decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family, with tragic consequences.From one of Scotland's greatest writers, The Changeling explores how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up and becoming part of society.
Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters
Author: Karen Levitov
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300170214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Vancouver Art Gallery and held at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 6-Sept. 25, 2011 and at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Sunset Song
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-13
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sunset Song is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Life is hard after her dad's death and she must take some tough decisions to save her farms under the inevitable threat of World War I . . . Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-04-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9004342494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature’, and by the Scotsman in 2000 as ‘the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland [...] the Scottish Thomas Hardy’. This new study of Jenkins includes essays across his entire, astonishingly varied body of work. It includes provocative new readings of a range of thematic issues by established experts on Jenkins and on Scottish Literature more broadly. This volume also includes chapters dedicated to individual novels in Jenkins’s corpus, including his best-known work, The Cone-Gatherers, as well as The Changeling, Fergus Lamont, and his posthumous novel, The Pearl Fishers. Contributors: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Timothy C. Baker, Linden Bicket, Gerard Carruthers, Cairns Craig, Douglas Gifford, Michael Lamont, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Isobel Murray, Glenda Norquay, Alan Riach, David Robb, Bernard Sellin, Gavin Wallace.
Dust on the Paw
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0857901532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiancee, 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. Prince Naim, one of the sons of the king, sees the marriage as a symbol of a successful union between East and West, and in his hurry to cement this union, promotes Abdul into a position of power he is far from ready for. Meanwhile, the employees at The British Embassy are in turmoil at this new arrival and all the disaster they are sure this mixed marriage will bring.
