Eric Linklater was born in 1899 in Penarth, Wales.He was educated in Aberdeen, and was initially interested in studying medicine; he later switched his focus to journalism, and became a full-time writer in the 1930″s. During his career, Linklater served as a journalist in India, a commander of a wartime fortress in the Orkney Islands, and rector of Aberdeen University. He authored more than twenty novels for adults and children, in addition to writing short stories, travel pieces, and military histories, among other works.
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Merry Muse
A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age o …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Goose Girl and Other Stories
Eric Linklater was one of the most respected and prolific Scottish writers of this century, yet more than twenty-five years have passed since his last collection of short stories was published. This …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Man Over Forty
Eric Linklater’s command of language and situation, and his gifts for humour and storytelling have seldom been better displayed than in A Man Over Forty, first published in 1963.Edward Balintore is t …
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Eric Linklater: Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and lon …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Dark of Summer
In the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not leas …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Ripeness is All
When the celibate Major Gander, C.B., T.D. sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Impregnable Women
The Next Great War begins, and soon all Europe is involved. The war lasts a year – and then the women, robbed of husbands and sweethearts and sons, grow doubtful of the benefits of military policy, a …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Spell For Old Bones
"When the giants fell, old bones revived" – there is the rubric for Eric Linklater’s new story, first published in 1949. There may be no historical foundation for his tale of a fantastic wa …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Terrible Freedom
First published in 1966, Eric Linklater’s brilliant novel tells the story of a double existence. Evan Gaffikin, sixtyish, grumpy and bored with his dull commercial success, discovers and develops his …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Northern Garrisons
The Northern Garrisons visits the soldiers of WWII in some of the most barren and inhospitable of outposts. Eric Linklater, in his mission to document the lives, trials and achievements of these men, …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Highland Division
The Highland Territorials were made up of the 51st Division, who had fought bravely in the Great War, and entered WWII with a fearsome and loyal reputation. Here Erik Linklater draws from letters and …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Juan in China
The earlier adventures of Juan Mosely a lineal descendant of Byron’s Don Juan continue on an amorous adventure to China where he becomes involved in politics and welfare and deals with them in his ow …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Defence of Calais
It is a tale of defeat, but when defeat is characterised by valour of a certain pitch and quality, its memory may outlast a tale of victory. And like the Burghers who came with ropes about their neck …
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Linklater Eric Linklater: Raft / Socrates Asks Why
Are the people of Britain capable of serving the new world, of writing with honour a new chapter of history? The answer, conclusively, is Yes. But Socrates, in the third of the pieces, has still to b …
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