The Fiction of Robin Jenkins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fiction of Robin Jenkins write by . This book was released on 2017-04-03. The Fiction of Robin Jenkins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cone-Gatherers
The Cone-Gatherers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cone-Gatherers write by Robin Jenkins. This book was released on 2012. The Cone-Gatherers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: London: Macdonald, 1955.
The Changeling
The Changeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changeling write by Robin Jenkins. This book was released on 2019-08-08. The Changeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Pearl Fishers
Pearl Fishers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pearl Fishers write by Robin Jenkins. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Pearl Fishers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '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.
Lady Magdalen
Lady Magdalen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lady Magdalen write by Robin Jenkins. This book was released on 2004. Lady Magdalen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, Lady Magdalen shares with her childhood friend, Francis Gowrie of Mintlaw, a love of art and beauty, and a horror of barbaric practices. But, with civil war brewing and family alliances paramount, Carnegie arranges her marriage to an ambitious young soldier, James Graham, the future Marquis of Montrose. This is a captivating novel, which juxtaposes the feminine and domestic with the political and military ramifications of the era. Lady Magdalen is effortlessly readable and a powerful evocation of seventeenth century Scotland.
