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The Fiction of Robin Jenkins

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 36,86 MB

Release : 2017-04-03

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004342494

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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

Author : Robin Jenkins

Publisher : Canongate Books

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 11,95 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1841959898

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Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers - two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper.



The Changeling

Author : Robin Jenkins

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Page : 240 pages

File Size : 41,55 MB

Release : 2019-08-08

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ISBN : 9781786893994

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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.



Lady Magdalen

Author : Robin Jenkins

Publisher : Canongate Books

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 12,35 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1841954926

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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.



Pearl Fishers

Author : Robin Jenkins

Publisher : Birlinn

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 12,5 MB

Release : 2011-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0857900226

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'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.



Time to Eat

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 29 pages

File Size : 28,22 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0547250320

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Book Description

Which animals eat bamboo, can gulp down a whole deer, or swallow rocks to help them eat? Young readers will find the answers in this lively title in a playful new series by a Caldecott Honor-winning duo. Full color.



Just Duffy

Author : Robin Jenkins

Publisher : Canongate Books

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 13,18 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0862415519

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The themes of this novel are central to all Jenkin's work. In its stark simplicity, Just Duffy lays claim to being one of his most powerful novels. Its drive and power bear witness to a modern Greek tradegy played out on a Scottish stage.



My First Day

Author : Steve Jenkins

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 37 pages

File Size : 34,72 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 054773851X

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"Explore some of the fascinating things that animals do on their first day" -- Cover.



Dust on the Paw

Author : Robin Jenkins

Publisher : Birlinn

Page : 454 pages

File Size : 27,77 MB

Release : 2012-02-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0857901532

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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.



What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Author : Steve Jenkins

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 37 pages

File Size : 24,7 MB

Release : 2009-06-15

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0547488920

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A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).