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Blood Hunt    Blood Hunt
ISBN:9781846970245
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A moving and satisfying blend of tragedy and comedy, Blood Hunt, Gunn’s second last novel, has a powerful message – the triumph of love over anger and of the unending renewal of nature. It is a masterly novel by a writer in full maturity.


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Butcher's Broom    Butcher's Broom
ISBN:9781904598916
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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.

        
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Drinking Well, The    Drinking Well, The
ISBN:9781904598893
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

First published in 1946, The Drinking Well is part of a Polygon series of Neil M. Gunn republications. Iain Cattanach lives happily in a small tight-knit Highland village, but his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him.

        
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Green Isle of the Great Deep, The    Green Isle of the Great Deep, The
ISBN:9781904598688
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Told fully in Highland dialect, The Green Isle of the Great Deep is a both a wonderful Scottish parable and a warning of the dangers of power and its abuse.

        
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Off in a Boat    Off in a Boat
ISBN:9781899863259
Category: Travel Writing, Travel
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Neil Gunn’s classic account of his 1930s voyage in the Hebrides. It seeks to capture the romance and exhilaration of a trip in a small boat, and Gunn’s observation of sea and landscape is interwoven with understanding of Norse and Celtic culture.


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Well at the World's End, The    Well at the World's End, The
ISBN:9781846970276
Category: Fiction, Classics
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:
The academic Peter Munro travels an emotional and physical trail that leads him into the Scottish Highlands, helping him to discover a great realisation. A classic Polygon novel.

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25 January 09
Birlinn authors at Winter Words Festival in Pitlochry
Birlinn authors at Winter Words Festival in Pitlochry
 

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