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If the Corncrake Calls (Hardcover)
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When the Scottish writer John McNeillie died on the 24th June 2002
aged 85, he left behind a legacy of over 40 books, several of them
minor classics, and several decades of weekly journalism in the
dentist's favourite sedative, Country Life. Almost all were written
under his pen name, Ian Niall. He made his debut at the age of 22
when Putnams published his novel Wigtown Ploughman: A Part of His
Life in 1939, a Scottish classic that caused a national controversy
and provoked improvements in social conditions. In later life John
McNeillie did not like to be reminded of his 'ferocious account of
peasant life in Galloway', as one fan described it! He saw himself
differently, an essayist and a recorder of landscape and natural
life. It is certainly here that McNeillie's output is best
represented and where his well crafted prose reveals the eye and
the ear of a poet, a gift for telling a good story and just
something of the realism that haunted his first book. The natural
history essay was his true metier as found in such volumes as The
Poachers's Handbook (1950), Trout from the Hills (1961) and his
memoir A Galloway Childhood (1967).Drawing on these and others of
his non-fiction books, and including the chapter of his first
novel, his daughter, Sheila Pehrson, has put together an anthology
that both showcases his talent and reveals the world that shaped
the writer he became. John Kincaid McNeillie was the eldest son of
Robert McNeillie and Jean McDougall. It was during an epidemic of
meningitis, in which his younger sister died, that the infant John
McNeillie was despatched from the family home near Dalmuir to be in
the care of his paternal grandparents. North Clutag was the farm
tenanted by his Grandfather in Wigtownshire and it was here in a
horse-drawn time-warp, a world closer to the 19th century and the
world of Robbie Burns than to the twentieth-century, that he was to
spend the formative years of his life. Although this was a
childhood marked out by separation, dislocation and loss it was
also a childhood that tied him into the natural world, seasonal
change, and the rhythm of farming life. It was a time he would
always describe as idyllic and which he celebrated in his writing,
just as Richard Jefferies and others had done before him.John
McNeillie was made a Doctor of Letters by Glasgow University, for
his contribution to Scottish literature, in 1998.
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