Robin Jenkins was born in 1912. He studied at Glasgow University and travelled and worked in Spain, Afghanistan and Borneo. He is the author of over twenty novels, including the acclaimed Fergus Lamont and The Cone Gatherers. In 2003 he was awarded a Saltire Award for Life-time Achievement. He died in 2005.
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Robin Jenkins: Pearl-fishers
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 beautifu …
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Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace
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 authorit …
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Robin Jenkins: Dust on the Paw
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 Manche …
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Robin Jenkins: Leila
Robin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for ‘Leila’, a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politicia …
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Robin Jenkins: Poverty Castle
Poverty Castle is an absorbing work of contrasts and subtle irony centred around an idealistic family in Argyll. A compelling novel, it deals with human nature, as always with Jenkins, and the social …
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Robin Jenkins: Poor Angus
“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 M …
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Robin Jenkins: Lady Magdalen
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 daught …
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Robin Jenkins: Childish Things
Satirical and yet compassionate, Childish Things begins with a funeral at which Gregor Mc Leod, a retired school-master aged 72, is mourning the death of his wife Kate. It soon becomes evident, howev …
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Robin Jenkins: Just Duffy
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 urb …
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Robin Jenkins: Changeling
A “witty, affecting novel” of a friendship between a troubled teenager and his well-meaning teacher—and the tragic path it sets them on (Financial Times). Thirteen-year-old Tom Curd …
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Robin Jenkins: Cone-Gatherers
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 …
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Robin Jenkins: Fergus Lamont
”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 kil …
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