| Description |
xxix, 476 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-476) and index. |
| Contents |
The battle of the birds -- The wee bannock -- Death in a nut -- The Cameronian preacher's tale / James Hogg -- The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- The Howdie : an autobiography / John Galt -- Baubie Huie's bastard geet / William Alexander -- The cunning speech of Drumtochty / Ìan Maclaren' (revd John Watson) -- A lodging for the night ; Thrawn Janet ; from Fables / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Un Infeliz / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- Miss Armstrong's circumstances / John Davidson -- T̀he heather lintie' / S.R. Crockett -- A literary club / J.M. Barrie -- The debatable land / Violet Jacob -- The loathly opposite / John Buchan -- Silk both sides / Lorna Moon (Helen Nora Wilson Low) -- The tax-gatherer / Neil Gunn -- Dance of the apprentices / Edward Gaitens -- Country-born / Eric Linklater -- Smeddum / Lewis Grassic Gibbon (J. Leslie Mitchell) -- The Donegals / Robert McLellan -- I'm leaving you / George Friel -- The last sister / Fred Urquhart -- A far cry from Bowmore / Robin Jenkins -- The life and death of George Wilson / Neil Paterson -- The gowk / Jessie Kesson -- Bang-Bang you're dead / Muriel Spark -- A map of the world / Elspeth Davie -- Andrina / George Mackay Brown -- An American sky / Iain Crichton Smith -- Prometheus / Alasdair Gray -- Performance / William McIlvanney -- The one-legged men / Eric McCormack -- Violets and strawberries in the snow / Shena Mackay -- Home for a couple of days / James Kelman -- Its colours they are fine / Alan Spence -- An apple from a tree / Margaret Elphinstone -- Merlewood / Ronald Frame -- Street of the three terraces / Dilys Rose -- Blood / Janice Galloway -- Doubled up with pain / Duncan McLean -- Night geometry and the Garscadden trains / A.L. Kennedy. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Scottish.
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Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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English fiction Short stories |
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Scotland |
| Added Author |
Dunn, Douglas.
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| ISBN |
0192142356 : £17.99 |
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