Download or read book The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche I e K Mackenzie Reprinted from the Celtic Magazine Second Edition Enlarged With an Appendix on the Superstition of the Highlanders by A Macgregor written by Alexander MACKENZIE (Editor of the Celtic Magazine.) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The prophecies of the Brahan seer Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conquered written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesar's Gallic wars as witnessed by a Gaul who has become the slave of a Roman officer.
Download or read book Black Sparta written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Return to the Fairy Hill written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lobsters on the Agenda written by Naomi Mitchison and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobsters on the Agenda is a contemporary novel of the 1950s in a West Highland setting and retains a refreshing air of topicality. In a small fishing village various conflicts of interest and loyalty are examined and discussed at a number of community gatherings, both formal and informal, during the course of a single week. The author writes with the experience of years of living and working in the Highlands and the joy of this novel lies in her use of lilting dialogue and her understanding of human strengths and frailties. With an introduction by Isobel Murray, this publication marks the centenary of the author's birth.
Download or read book The Findlater Sisters written by Eileen MacKenzie and published by London, Murray. This book was released on 1964 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Laburnum Branch written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big House written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the children hate Su because she is from the Big House. All that is except Winkie, the fisherman's son, and together he and Su become involved in a dangerous mission to rescue a magic piper from the clutches of an evil fairy prince.
Download or read book Five Men and a Swan written by Naomi Mitchison and published by Kennedy & Boyd. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is recognisably a 'Carradale book', containing as it does vivid and realistic stories and poems of the landscape and the people. Mitchison had moved to the village in Kintyre, on the west coast of Scotland, some twenty years before and was still much involved in its affairs, supporting the fishing fleet and running her own small farm. Yet, as Moira Burgess suggests in her Introduction to this new edition, these thirteen stories and fourteen interspersed short poems and songs do not make a straightforward, celebratory, collection. The first five stories have historical settings in Caithness and Orkney, with the rest set in the contemporary West Highlands - some drawing on Highland myth and legend. And then, as Burgess writes, 'tucked modestly and apparently at random' is 'Five Men and a Swan' - 'a fine story, probably her best, a classic of Scottish literature'. Mitchison's years of intense involvement with the community were in fact drawing to an end. From the early 1960s onwards, she applied her energy and enthusiasm to the cause of the Bakgatla tribe in the newly independent country of Botswana. Her writing would turn to African themes, and, in 'a marvellous late flourish', to science fiction. Seen in this light, the book may be not so much a celebration as a coda to Mitchison's Carradale years.
Download or read book An Habitation Enforced written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Chapin is told to rest and do no work, so he and his wife Sophie embark on a lengthy wandering journey which eventually leads them to an old house in Southern England. They themselves are not English and fall in love with it.
Download or read book The Bull Calves written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bull Calves" was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her home in Carradale, Kintyre, keeping open house for evacuees and refugees, running the farm and driving the tractor, organising the local Labour Party, and writing and producing for the dramatic society - and so on. She also wrote a diary for Mass Observation, of more than a million words. But she had to take her time with the novel and plan it more carefully than she usually had time for. She wanted to give Scotland and the world a message, of the need for peace and working together after a bitter war. She chose to write about the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and set her novel at Gleneagles, on the Highland line, with her characters her own ancestors. A very personal prefatory poem indicates that the whole operation was very close to her heart, and the ensuing novel is her best historical novel, and still topical today.
Download or read book Supernatural Scotland written by Roderick Martine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glasgow Novel 1870 1970 written by Moira Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To the Chapel Perilous written by Naomi Mitchison and published by Kennedy & Boyd. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1999 Introduction to the first reprint of this novel from 1955 - a year of the Cold War that began with the Baghdad Pact and ended with the official start of the Vietnam War - Raymond H. Thompson described Naomi Mitchison's contribution to the Arthurian tradition as 'not only a comic masterpiece, but a guidebook into spiritual growth'. She achieves this by drawing on her own experience as a journalist to explore the fantastic events surrounding King Arthur and the Holy Grail through the eyes of two young reporters - on competing newspapers, with mid-twentieth century values and skills - as they follow the breaking stories and conflicting accounts of the grail quest. Michael Amey, who writes the Introduction to this new edition, points out that her approach was not universally liked by her fellow writers. Tolkien for one objected to her introduction of 'dwarfs with photographic apparatus'. Amey himself suggests that To the Chapel Perilous is in fact a 'call to adventure' in which Mitchison sets out 'to tell a story of how stories are told'.
Download or read book You May Well Ask written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early in Orcadia written by Naomi Mitchison and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years apart in time and dealing with different characters, but connected by their location in a particular corner of Orkney during the period known as the Stone Age. Mitchison links them formally by interpolating passages of fact and explanation between the fictional episodes, and by speculating in her own voice about what happened in prehistory, as far as it can be known from archaeological research, and how it fits in with the world of today. The slightly awkward jumps from one story to the next indicate that the development of the human race was not a completely smooth and seamless process. There must have been significant moments when a highly important discovery or invention took place. The structure of the book is demonstrating its theme - that there are sudden advances but just one story running from the earliest times to the present day, and it is the story of humankind. From the Introduction.
