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.
12 Ebooks bởi Robin Jenkins
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
Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus Mc Allister, who has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiec …
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Robin Jenkins: Lady Magdalen
Magadalen, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, shares with her childhood friend, Francis Gowrie of Mintlaw, a love of art and beauty, and a horror of barbaric practices such …
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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
In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the mora …
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Robin Jenkins: The Changeling
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly ins …
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Robin Jenkins: The Cone-Gatherers
In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he com …
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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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