Neil M. Gunn

• Jun-1978
• / General Fiction
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The Silver Darlings is a tale of lives hard won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. It tells of strong young men and stronger women whose loves, fears and sorrows are set deep in a landscape of raw beauty and bleak reward. The dawning of the...

• Oct-1987
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• Aug-1988
• / Historical
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• Aug-1989
• / Suspense
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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...

• Jan-1990
• / Action Adventure
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• Aug-1991
• / General Fiction
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When the sheer intensity of life in his family East Highland crofter-fishermen threatens to overwhelm him, eight-year-old Art turns to Old Hector. When Art's brother, Donal, contrives to escape looking after him or when his mother and sisters become ...

• Feb-1993
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth lives in a small fishing village near Caithness at the end of the nineteenth century. He is becoming aware of his mother's worries that he and his brother will follow their father to sea, and is becoming to realise ...

• Mar-1998
• / Literary
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• Jan-2001
• / Literary
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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 livi...

• Oct-2002
• / Historical
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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. A shooting lodge party of wealthy English people, a team of Highland stalkers, a legendary stag to be hunted and a backgrou...

• May-2004
• / Thriller
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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...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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Iain Cattanach loves to play the fiddle and wander the hills tending his father's sheep. However, his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him. A position in an Edinburgh legal firm is secured for Iain and he is forced to leave the countryside...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2012
• / Historical
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The Lost Glen vividly portrays a clash of cultures and personalities against a background of a landscape in visible decay. The cultural collision and its effects are explored through Ewan, a young local man recently returned from university in disgra...

• Nov-2012
• / Historical
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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 break...

• Jan-2019
• / General Fiction
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Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart. Prof...

• Dec-2024
• / Literary
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Neil M Gunn, one of Scotland’s most distinguished 20th century authors, wrote over a period of 30 years, starting in 1926 and ending in 1956 with his so-called spiritual autobiography The Atom of Delight. Two years before this he wrote his last...

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This is a magical tale of the adventures of Young Art and Old Hector - the boy and the old man - in a land between life and death. When the two fall into the depths of a salmon pool, they wake to find themselves in a bright yet strangely brittle coun...