Robin Jenkins

• Oct-1985
• / General Fiction
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The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII “has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance” (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather...

• Oct-1995
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Set in early-Victorian Scotland, this story is based on a momentous event in Scottish history, the Great Disruption of 1843, when a group of ministers took on the establishment in a bitter conflict which split the Church of Scotland down the middle....

• May-1997
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1999
• / Literary
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• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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"Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowled, when in letters to the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald, I put forward my suggestion that prisoners in Scottish jails be allowed to wear their kilts as their national birthright if such be their wis...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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An authentic and atmospheric evocation of wartime Scotland, widely regarded as one of Jenkins' finest novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in 1939, as a small town comes to terms with an influx of deprived city evacuees....

• May-2002
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Satirical and yet compassionate, Childish Things begins with a funeral at which Gregor McLeod, a retired school-master aged 72, is mourning the death of his wife Kate. It soon becomes evident, however, that McLeod has been something of a womaniser an...

• Apr-2005
• / Thriller
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Two British travellers, Donald Kemp and Margaret Duncan, have disappeared in the wild mountainous region of northern Afghanistan; a terrain into which western Europeans seldom penetrate. The authorities in Kabul say that they have been murdered by th...

• Oct-2005
• / General Fiction
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Mungo's wife is the extroverted and excessively cheerful Bess, too busy cracking jokes or playing whist to give her husband's misery any sympathy and dismissing his vague intellectual, imaginative and amorous ambitions as pointless dreams. Mungo find...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. Cursed with poverty, an ineffective president and a string of defeats, the Thistle players are running low on morale, especially when so many people ...

• Jul-2006
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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 dow...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Robin Jenkins bring to life a variety of characters in this intriguing, compassionate novel: twins Jonathan and Maddy are desperate for something significant, something creative to happen in their lives. They become passionately involved with John, ...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 an...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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A Scotsman in 1950s Asia becomes entangled in love and political unrest: “As a storyteller, Jenkins has few equals.” -- Tribune Set in the Far East in the 1950s, Leila is a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and L...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Donald Sempill has a beautiful wife who adores him, five perfect daughters and enough money that he doesn't have to work. In fact he can afford to buy a ruin in Argyllshire and restore it as a home for them all -- Poverty Castle. The idyll can't last...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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An outsider arrives in rural Scotland, but finds her hopes for a new home elusive in a novel by the author of The Cone-Gatherers: “A remarkable writer.” -- The Times When the beautiful pearl-fisher Effie Williamson arrives in a rural Scottish vi...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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This beautifully rendered novel of 17th century Scotland imagines the life of Lady Magdalene, 1st Marchioness of Montrose, during the English Civil War.   Magadalen, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, shares with her ch...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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“A blackly comic romp” of art, ambition, and sexual politics in the Scottish Isles: “a remarkable novel…written with the lightest of touches” (The Sunday Times, UK).   Struggling painter Angus McAllister has returned to the idyllic Heb...

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This “challenging and absorbing” novel by the author of The Cone Gatherers explores evil done in the name of goodness with “a powerful and mordant irony” (The Scotsman, UK).   Set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins’s ...