Lewis Grassic Gibbon: 12 books

Edited and introduced by Valentina Bold. This selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s writing brings together old favourites and new material for the first time. There are all his lively contributions to Scottish Scene (co-written by Hugh MacDiarmid) including the unforgettable lilt and flow of his short...

A Summer Special Magazine of Science Fiction Join us on the beach with your plutonium powered bucket and spade. We have some great new stories from great writers such as Gary Gibson and Holly Schofield;  interviews with Ken MacLeod and Tricia Sullivan; a new column by BSFA award...

Edited and introduced by Tom Crawford. ‘It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s importance . . . A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind.’ David Kerr Cameron Chris Guthrie, torn between...

Introduced by Tom Crawford. The compelling saga of Chris Guthrie is continued in this, the middle volume of Grassic Gibbon’s great trilogy A Scots Quair. The scene has moved to the small community of Segget, where, after Ewan’s death in the First World War, Chris has come to live with her second...

“A Scots Quair is a trilogy by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north east of Scotland during the early 20th century.” (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia) “It consists of three novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud...

Cloud Howe' is Lewis Grassic Gibbon's second novel in the 'A Scots Quair' trilogy. Cloud Howe continues the story of Chris Guthrie who we found out in the first instalment 'Sunset Song' is a young woman growing up in a farming family on the Estate of Kinraddie in "The Mearns" in the north...

Settantatré anni prima di Cristo, quando nessun dio e nessun uomo sembravano in grado di minacciare i destini della Città Eterna, uno schiavo decise di spezzare le catene in cui era avvolto e, accompagnato da un pugno di seguaci disposti a tutto, portò il suo attacco al cuore di Roma. Comincia...

Divided between her love of the land and the brutal harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally chooses to stay in the rural community of her childhood. Yet the First WORLD War and the economic and social changes that follow make her a widow and mock the efforts of her youth. But although...

Introduced by Tom Crawford. Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sunset Song. In a society of...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The original landmark novel of the slave revolt against the Romans in 73 BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century, Spartacus is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling from one of Scotland’s finest writers.

Kinraddie lands had been won by a Norman childe, Cospatric de Gondeshil, in the days of William the Lyon, when gryphons and suchlike beasts still roamed the Scots countryside and folk would waken in their beds to hear the children screaming, with a great wolf-beast, come through the hide window, tearing...