"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. Tapping into the essence of Gaelic experience, "Butcher's Broom" is the story of a community threatened with eviction, in order to make way for sheep. At the centre of the novel is the mysterious Dark Mairi, who embodies the spirit of ancient Highland culture. The sense of Gaelic community and tradition is captured, while the novel's characters exemplify what is most vital and lasting in mankind. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.

Butcher's Broom (Modern Scottish Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Gunn, Neil

Contemporary

Souvenir

Blood Hunt

Genre Fiction

Souvenir Press Ltd.

Silver Bough

Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd.

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.

Second Sight

Chambers

Walter Urquhart, a young anthropologist, journeys to a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to discover the truth about the mysterious author of a brilliant, haunting manuscript and finds tragedy, evil, misfortune, and death

The Other Landscape

Walker Co

Growing up in a small Scottish fishing village, twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth begins to sense his mother's fears that he and his brother will follow in their father's footsteps and pursue a life on the sea

Morning Tide: A Novel

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. Awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize 1937, Highland River is written in prose as cool and clear as the water it describes, and is the simplest, most poetic, and perhaps the greatest of Neil Gunn's novels.

Highland River (Canongate Classic)

British & Irish

Canongate UK

The Lost Glen

A timeless novel about the effect of the blitz in wartime London on a young Scotswoman who has returned to her native Highlands to recover from a nervous breakdown

The Shadow

In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides. The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail. These are not high recommendations, but for Gunn, and at times his fellow voyagers, the vessel was an argosy of freedom, of adventure and misadventure? for they were fairly inexperienced sailors, and the waters of the region are by no means placid. Gunn was a Scots nationalist in a sense that goes far beyond the political, even though he thought that an independent Scotland was the only proper basis for a reasonable civilization. He was by nature poetic, uplifted or cast down by changing skies, seascapes, and shores. His descriptions of those things, including their moods, are remarkably evocative. And he is also a passionate historian of his country, exalting its possibilities, anathematizing its shortcomings. The book is illustrated with Daisy Gunn's photographs taken on the voyage, which are palpably amateur but wonderfully telling.

Off in a Boat

Reference

New Amsterdam Books

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