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Scotland's Books
From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
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And The Cock Crew
Introduced by John Herdman. And the Cock Crew offers one of the most powerful and searching examinations of the Highland Clearances to be found in modern Scottish literature. Written during the 1930s and published in 1945, Fionn MacColla’s finest book maintains that the roots of all social change are to be found not in so-called ‘economic causes’, but deep in the human heart. This searching and passionate novel, with its philosophical understanding of the dangers of the will to power and its passionate advocacy of old Gaelic ways, takes the familiar themes of freedom, obedience and dispossession beyond the Clearances themselves and into the realms of the spirit. In prose style burning ...
In Search of Serif Books, the Stanley Press & Joseph Mardel, Publisher of Maurice Lindsay's Hurlygush and Sydney Goodsir Smith's Under the Eildon Tree, & Taking Serious Note of William Maclellan & Callum Macdonald
"This story of Duncan Glen's search for Joseph Mardel, a forgotten man of twentieth-century Scottish literary publishing and printing, is a good read. It is also a contribution to the story of the continuing Scottish literary renaissance that began in the 1920s with Hugh MacDiarmid's volumes of poems in Scots and continued throughout the twentieth century. Thanks to the heroes of this book it may even be continuing today!" "The Serif Books imprint may be largely forgotten but, as Glen shows, Joseph Mardel was, in the late 1940s and through the 1950s, a key performer in the impressive story of the revival of literary publishing in Scotland. The heroes of this book are the publishers of the 1940s and 1950s - Joseph Mardel of Serif Books, William Maclellan, Callum Macdonald, and Calum and Kenneth Campbell of Caledonian Press and Castle Wynd Printers - but they were brave on behalf of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics and editors whose names virbrate through this work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dùthchas Nan Gàidheal
Described by the Rev. William Matheson as the 'the last of the native scholars', Dr John MacInnes is the foremost living authority on the oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands.
