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Horrific experiences of the blitz in wartime London and the spiritual bankruptcy of her lover and his Marxist acquaintances are seen through the eyes of Nan, a young Scotswoman, who has returned to her native Highlands to recover from a nervous breakdown. The shadows of the immediate past begin to recede, but her return to health is interrupted.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781870325493 | Whittles Pub, August 1, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Horrific experiences of the blitz in wartime London and the spiritual bankruptcy of her lover and his Marxist acquaintances are seen through the eyes of Nan, a young Scotswoman, who has returned to her native Highlands to recover from a nervous breakdown.

Half-light: And Other Short Stories

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Product Description: Selection of short stories from one of Scotland's foremost 20th century novelists

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781849950459 | Whittles Pub, November 1, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Selection of short stories from one of Scotland's foremost 20th century novelists

Belief in Ourselves

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Product Description: Timeless essays on Scottish life, landscape and culture

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781849950220 | Whittles Pub, August 1, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Timeless essays on Scottish life, landscape and culture

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Portrays a clash of cultures and personalities against a background of a landscape in visible decay. This work explores the cultural collision and its effects, through Ewan, a young local man returned from university in disgrace, and a retired English colonel staying at the village hotel. Both men, in a sense, are alienated from the community.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781904445432 | Whittles Pub, October 1, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Portrays a clash of cultures and personalities against a background of a landscape in visible decay.

A Croft in the Hills

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Product Description: A real classic among Highland books, "A Croft in the Hills" captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them...read more

By Neil M. Gunn (foreword by), Anne Shortreed (illustrator) and Katharine Stewart

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9781841830858 | Mercat Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A real classic among Highland books, "A Croft in the Hills" captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago.

A Croft in the Hills

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Product Description: A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them...read more

By Neil M. Gunn (foreword by), Eona Macnicol (foreword by), Anne Shortreed (illustrator) and Katherine Stewart

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9781841587912 | Reprint edition (Birlinn Ltd, March 1, 2009), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago.

The Well at the World's End

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Product Description: History professor Peter Munro is on a quest for spiritual truth. While on his physical journey in the Scottish Highlands seeking the well at the world's end, he encounters a variety of charactersâfrom fishermen to illicit whisky distillersâwho enable him to discover that the key to eternal happiness is unconditional love...read more

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781846970276 | Birlinn Ltd, July 1, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: History professor Peter Munro is on a quest for spiritual truth.

9780862416454 | Canongate Crime, March 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Peter is a man searching for his lost youth, and during the course of the novel he finds, if not youth itself, then spiritual rejunvenation.

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After Allan Innes kills the man who seduced his girlfriend, Liz Murison, he is pursued across Scotland by village policeman Nicol Menzies, brother of the slain man

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780802710086 | Walker & Co, October 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: After Allan Innes kills the man who seduced his girlfriend, Liz Murison, he is pursued across Scotland by village policeman Nicol Menzies, brother of the slain man

9780802710017 | Walker & Co, September 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: After Allan Innes kills the man who seduced his girlfriend, Liz Murison, he is pursued across Scotland by village policeman Nicol Menzies, brother of the slain man

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Product Description: After a lifetime at sea, old Sandy returns to the land of his fathers to live out his remaining years in the peaceful isolation of a Highland croft. His companions are his dog Queenie, a temperamental cow Nancy, a few hens and his precious books...read more

By Neil M. Gunn and Frederic Lindsay (introduced by)

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9781846970245 | Birlinn Ltd, June 30, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: After a lifetime at sea, old Sandy returns to the land of his fathers to live out his remaining years in the peaceful isolation of a Highland croft.

The Drinking Well

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By Neil M. Gunn and Alan Spence (introduced by)

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9781904598893 | Birlinn Ltd, December 30, 2006, cover price $15.00

The Green Isle of the Great Deep

Continues the adventures of the two protagonists from the 'Young Art and Old Hector'. The unlikely friends, representing the extremes of age and youth, have been transported from the Highlands of our world to an alternative Highland universe, the Green Isle. This novel is both a Scottish parable and a warning of the dangers of power and its abuse.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780802713100 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, March 1, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Falling into a mysterious salmon pool while on a fishing trip together, Young Art and Old Hector awaken in a land between the worlds of life and death where they are forced into a chaotic battle of creativity and freedom

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9781904598688 | Birlinn Ltd, June 1, 2006, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Continues the adventures of the two protagonists from the 'Young Art and Old Hector'.

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Product Description: At the height of the cold war, shipping executive Dermot Cameron is entrusted by British Intelligence with a chart of the approaches to a remote but strategically important Hebridean island. Rescuing a young woman from two attackers in the street, he becomes involved in a brawl and loses the chart...read more

By Dairmid Gunn and Neil M. Gunn

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9781843500780 | Soft Editions Ltd, May 31, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: At the height of the cold war, shipping executive Dermot Cameron is entrusted by British Intelligence with a chart of the approaches to a remote but strategically important Hebridean island.

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Product Description: One of Gunn's lighter and more intriguing novels centring on the investigation of an ancient cairn

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780802710895 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, August 1, 1989), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Archaeologist Simon Grant arrives in the Scottish Highlands to excavate a local burial cairn, hires a local simpleton to assist, and puzzles over the disappearance of the gold he discovers in the course of the dig

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9781904445081, titled "The Silver Bough" | Whittles Pub, January 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: One of Gunn's lighter and more intriguing novels centring on the investigation of an ancient cairn

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Product Description: A novel set in a Highland shooting lodge, where the focus is a hunt in a remote deer forest; but this is no ordinary thriller.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781870325899 | Whittles Pub, July 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A novel set in a Highland shooting lodge, where the focus is a hunt in a remote deer forest; but this is no ordinary thriller.

Wild Geese Overhead

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Product Description: A powerful novel set in the city of Glasgow in 1939 - but with a strange relevance to the events of today

By Neil M. Gunn

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9781870325943 | Whittles Pub, June 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A powerful novel set in the city of Glasgow in 1939 - but with a strange relevance to the events of today

The Key of the Chest

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Product Description: 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 deadâbut was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money? These questions hang like a threat over the various members of a small community struggling to keep life going on a hard, relentless coast...read more

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780802710529, titled "Key of the Chest" | Walker & Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The lives of brothers Dougald and Charlie, outcasts in a small village, are threatened with ruin when Charlie is suspected of murder and the town's fear and hatred serve as his jury

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9780862417703 | Birlinn Ltd, September 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 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.

Whisky & Scotland: A Practical and Spiritual Survey

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By Neil M. Gunn

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9780285634336, titled "Whisky and Scotland: A Practical and Spiritual Survey" | Souvenir Pr Ltd, August 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

9780285622890 | Souvenir Pr Ltd, October 1, 1993, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: 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 skepticism set against an authoritarian Calvinism. This conflict succeeds in bringing alive both the psychological and economic position of the Highlands in the early years of the 20th century: the book as a whole gives a powerful vision of what the Highlands might have been but for the Clearances...read more

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780862417284 | Birlinn Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 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 skepticism set against an authoritarian Calvinism.

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Product Description: First published in 1933, Sun Circle belongs to Gunn's most creative period. A story of love and awakening set in a time of critical upheaval during the dawn of Scottish history, Breeta's people are the ancient, newly Christianized Pictish tribes living in remote Northern Scotland in the 9th century...read more

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780862415877 | Birlinn Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: First published in 1933, Sun Circle belongs to Gunn's most creative period.

Butcher's Broom

Dark Mairi becomes the support and core of strength for a small Gaelic community of crofters, in a story set in early nineteenth-century Scotland, when Highland landowners displaced their poorer tenants to make way for wintering sheep.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780802712912 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, March 1, 1994), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Dark Mairi becomes the support and core of strength for a small Gaelic community of crofters, in a story set in early nineteenth-century Scotland, when Highland landowners displaced their poorer tenants to make way for wintering sheep

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Product Description: Ken is a scientist, with a scientist's dispassionate eye for the material world, as he reviews his life from the difficult 1930s, through the slaughter of World War I, back to an idyllic boyhood in the Highlands. When the mature man finally reaches the source of the river that has haunted his imagination for so many years, he finds that the wellsprings of magic and delight were always there, in the world all around him at the time, inexhaustible and irreverent...read more

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780862413583 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, December 1, 1991), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Ken is a scientist, with a scientist's dispassionate eye for the material world, as he reviews his life from the difficult 1930s, through the slaughter of World War I, back to an idyllic boyhood in the Highlands.

The Atom of Delight

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By Neil M. Gunn

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9780948275142 | P D Meany Pub, September 1, 1987, cover price $15.95

Landscape and Light

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By Neil M. Gunn

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9780080350608 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $27.00

The Silver Darlings

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The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the Herring Fisheries brought with it the hope of escape from the Highland Clearances, and this story paints a vivid picture of a community fighting against nature and history, and refusing to be crushed.

By Neil M. Gunn

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9780571200788 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 5, 1999), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords.

9780571090419 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 1, 1978), cover price $16.65 | About this edition: The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords.

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