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Morning Tide

By: Neil M. Gunn

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Twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth lives in a small fishing village near Caithness at the end of the nineteenth century. He is becoming aware of his mother's worries that he and his brother will follow their father to sea, and is becoming to realise that the fishing industry is doomed to decline, a decline that will result in the death of his village. A lyrical and poignant novel, Morning Tide, describes how a young boy learns to become a man. It is a poetic testimony to the intensity of feeling in physical experience, the touch of the earth and the coldness of the sea, and in the need to be free. Sensitivity and wildness are pitted against the restrictions of family and social life, and it is more than a complete picture of childhood; unfolding into a set of values that speaks powerfully to the present.

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0285640046

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9780285640047

Highland River

By: Neil Gunn

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Highland River

By: Neil Gunn

Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart. Profound and moving, Highland River is a stirring tale of what is lost and what endures, and the unexpected ways we can be renewed.

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Canongate Books

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1847675174

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9781847675170

Butcher's Broom

By: Neil M. Gunn

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Butcher's Broom

By: Neil M. Gunn

Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.

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Souvenir Press

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0285640038

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9780285640030

The Lost Chart

By: Neil M. Gunn

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The Lost Chart

By: Neil M. Gunn

At the height of the cold war, shipping executive Dermot Cameron is entrusted by British Intelligence with a chart of the approaches to a remote but strategically important Hebridean island. Rescuing a young woman from two attackers in the street, he becomes involved in a brawl and loses the chart. His subsequent hunt for the lost chart leads him into adventures on land and sea, and involves him in brushes with a murderous communist fifth-column. As a diplomatic crisis looms, bringing with it the threat of a potential nuclear showdown between the super-powers and a return to the dark ages, Dermot's search prompts his own personal reappraisal of the people and things he values.

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1843500787

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9781843500780

Highland River

By: Neil Gunn

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By: Neil Gunn

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The Well at the World's End

By: Neil M. Gunn

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The Well at the World's End

By: Neil M. Gunn

History professor Peter Munro is on a quest for spiritual truth. While on his physical journey in the Scottish Highlands seeking the well at the world's end, he encounters a variety of characters—from fishermen to illicit whisky distillers—who enable him to discover that the key to eternal happiness is unconditional love.

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Polygon

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184697027X

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9781846970276

Off in a Boat

By: Neil M. Gunn

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Off in a Boat

By: Neil M. Gunn

His ability scrupulously to evoke the landscapes and the peoples of the Highlands, his blending together of myth and reality and his wide-ranging imagination make Neil Gunn the most important Scottish novelist of the 20th century. --Trevor Royle, The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature

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Dundurn

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1899863257

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9781899863259

Morning Tide

By: Neil M. Gunn

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Scotland

By: Neil Wilson,Alan Murphy

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Scotland

By: Neil Wilson,Alan Murphy

Scotland's patchwork of sweeping mountains and lochs, craggy coastline and lively towns deserves to be explored and savored. "Lonely Planet Scotland" includes sustainable accommodations, restaurant reviews and guides, and off-the-beaten-path excursions.

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1741047250

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The Key of the Chest

By: Neil M. Gunn

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The Key of the Chest

By: Neil M. Gunn

When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead—but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money? These questions hang like a threat over the various members of a small community struggling to keep life going on a hard, relentless coast. It is a mystery in which Neil Gunn displays his skills as a writer of depth and subtlety and we emerge from the tale asking questions about the nature and meaning of community itself, and how it can survive in a bewildering and violent modernity.

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Canongate Books

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0862417708

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9780862417703

Young Art and Old Hector

By: Neil Miller Gunn

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Young Art and Old Hector

By: Neil Miller Gunn

When the sheer intensities of family life become too much for eight-year-old Art, it is to Old Hector that he turns for comfort. Thwarted from fulfilling his burning desire to go to the River, he seeks out the old man who can still poach a salmon with the best when he chooses. Through Old Hector's tales and his own experiences, Young Art gradually learns about the painful business of growing up.Young Art and Old Hector shows Neil Gunn's artistry at its very best; above all, his genius for clothing a simple story of Caithness crofter-fishermen in the rich garb of myth. It is also one of the finest evocations of childhood ever written, conveying all the magic and misery and the bursting joys of being a small boy in the great and mysterious world.

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0285622544

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Butcher's Broom

By: Neil M. Gunn

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Butcher's Broom

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The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1

By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russel

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The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1

By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russel

A collection of comic stories from celebrated and award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, in conjunction with some of comics' most acclaimed creators. In these four essential Gaiman tales, a familiar detective finds himself at the heart of a Lovecraftian nightmare on Baker Street, a strange man delves into the heartbreaking mystery of a divine murder in paradise, teenage boys find that approaching girls can lead to more danger than romance, and a verbose gothic writer finds his true calling amidst family duels and drudgery. Collects the full graphic novels A Study in Emerald, Murder Mysteries, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, and Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire in a single digital volume, along with bonus material from each book.

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318

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506715966

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9781506715964

Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples

By: Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples

By: Neil Gaiman

Winner of the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel! A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by New York Times bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran! A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods) comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran (Troll Bridge)!

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1506709796

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Smoke and Mirrors

Short Fictions and Illusions

By: Neil Gaiman

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Smoke and Mirrors

Short Fictions and Illusions

By: Neil Gaiman

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion ... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality -- obscured by smoke and darkness, yet brilliantly tangible -- in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.

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Harper Collins

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0380789027

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9780380789023

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

By: Neil Gaiman,Mark Buckingham

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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

By: Neil Gaiman,Mark Buckingham

From New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner-award winning creator Mark Buckingham comes a graphic novel anthology of four essential fantasy stories. These dark and imaginative tales feature an odd and subtly linked world of bizarre venereal diseases, a creepy old woman who feasts on raw meat, a man obsessed with a skin model from a magazine, and a story within a story about ghosts. You wont want to miss this collection featuring comic adaptations of the short stories: Looking for the Girl, Foreign Parts, Closing Time, and Feeders and Eaters from the Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman!

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1506705308

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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

By: Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

By: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories by Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman is a tie-in edition to the unique Sky Arts series starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes and Johnny Vegas. Characteristically dark and strange, these four stories were originally published in Gaiman's popular short-story collections, Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors. 'Gaiman is... a treasure-house of story' - Stephen King. 'Let me tell you a story. No, wait, one's not enough. I'll begin again...' 'Foreign Parts', a story of loneliness and identity, and, perhaps, the joys of making your own way in the world. 'Feeders & Eaters', an eerie tale drawn from a nightmare the author had in his twenties. 'Closing Time', a ghostly story within a story, whispered in the quiet of the night. 'Looking For The Girl', a tale that spans a lifetime, originally commissioned by Penthouse for their 20th anniversary issue.

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1472242599

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