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Maybe it had just been a matter of time: had we had more time, what
we would or could have achieved, together. Had we actually met that
first time round, how different things might have been. The world
we would have painted. Had we really loved each other, we would
never have separated. It was a long hot summer… A chance
encounter on a ferry leads to a lifetime of regret for misplaced
opportunities. Beautifully written and vividly evoked, The Girl on
the Ferryboat is a mirage of recollections looking back to the haze
of one final prelapsarian summer on the Isle of Mull.
'In pencil-written and drawing-spattered notebooks intended for her
Australian granddaughter, an elderly woman, now in Edinburgh,
remembers and relives her Hebridean childhood. The community thus
recreated is one where modernity - its emblem the Electricity of
Angus Peter Campbell's title - collides and overlaps with all sorts
of linguistic, cultural and other continuities. But this is no
sentimental or elegiac excursion into a long-gone past. What's
evoked here is a powerful sense of what it was, and is, to grow up
amid family, neighbours and surroundings of a sort providing, for
the most part, both security and happiness.' JAMES HUNTER
This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published
poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will
be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and
introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail. Sorley
MacLean was born on the island of Raasay in 1911. He was brought up
within a family and community immersed in Gaelic language and
culture, particularly song. He studied English at Edinburgh
University from 1929, taking a first-class honours degree. Despite
this influence, he eventually adopted Gaelic as the medium most
appropriate for his poetry. He translated much of his own work into
English, opening it up to a wider public. He fought in North Africa
during World War II, before taking up a career in teaching, holding
posts on Mull, in Edinburgh and finally as Head Teacher at Plockton
High School. Amongst other awards and honours, he received the
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1990. He died in 1996 at the age
of 85.
WINNER OF THE 2017 SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A
face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in
Manhattan. She's a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence.
He's good at his job. Scarily good. He's researching human features
to make more realistic mask-bots - non-human 'carers' for elderly
people. When his enquiry turns personal he's forced to ask whether
his own life is an artificial mask. Delving into family stories and
his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to
discover his own true face, 'uniquely sprung from all the faces
that had been'. He returns to England to look after his Grampa.
Travels. Reads old documents. Visits ruins. Borrows, plagiarises
and invents. But when Emma tells him his proper work is to make a
story out of glass and steel, not memory and straw, which path will
he choose? What's the best story he can give her? A novel about the
struggle for freedom and personal identity; what it means to be
human. It fuses the glass and steel of our increasingly controlled
algorithmic world with the memory and straw of our forebears' world
controlled by traditions and taboos, the seasons and the elements.
This is a collection of Angus Peter Campbell's modern Gaelic
poetry. It includes poems that are translated into English by the
author, and into Scots by J. Derrick McClure.
Archie has lived on a small island off the Scottish coast his
entire life. After decades without a job and without a break from
his selfish wife, Archie packs his bag and leaves to find the hole
where the North Wind originates, as the old stories claim. He meets
many strange and wonderful characters along the way, including the
beautiful deaf Jewel, Yukon Joe and Sergio the expert
potato-peeler. Seeking to find his way in the world, and driven by
the ancient stories he grew up with on the island, Archie faces
many dangers in his quest for knowledge.
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Angus Peter Campbell
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Fifty-nine new poems from award-winning writer Angus Peter
Campbell. These poignant and beautifully crafted poems were
originally created while in residence in a thatched house in his
native South Uist. They move across time and space like a radio
dial between global stations, sometimes catching the indigenous,
sometimes the marvellous and comic. Poems that celebrate the places
and voices located somewhere between Luxembourg and Lyons.Â
A face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in
Manhattan. She’s a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence.
He’s good at his job. Scarily good. He’s researching human
features to make more realistic mask-bots – non-human
‘carers’ for elderly people. When his enquiry turns personal
he’s forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask.
Delving into family stories and his roots in the Highlands of
Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face,
‘uniquely sprung from all the faces that had been’. He returns
to England to look after his Grampa. Travels. Reads old documents.
Visits ruins. Borrows, plagiarises and invents. But when Emma tells
him his proper work is to make a story out of glass and steel, not
memory and straw, which path will he choose? What’s the best
story he can give her? A novel about the struggle for freedom and
personal identity; what it means to be human. It fuses the glass
and steel of our increasingly controlled algorithmic world with the
memory and straw of our forebears’ world controlled by traditions
and taboos, the seasons and the elements.
Published to celebrate the acclaimed author's 80th birthday, this
is a collection of poetry, essays and photographs by leading
authors and photographers.
Maybe it had just been a matter of time: had we had more time, what
we would or could have achieved, together. Had we actually met that
first time round, how different things might have been. The world
we would have painted. Had we really loved each other, we would
never have separated. It was a long hot summer… A chance
encounter on a ferry leads to a lifetime of regret for misplaced
opportunities. Beautifully written and vividly evoked, The Girl on
the Ferryboat is a mirage of recollections looking back to the haze
of one final prelapsarian summer on the Isle of Mull.
Nearly 10,000 young people in Scotland are homeless. Some we see on
the streets, thousands more are 'hidden' - sofa surfing, in
B&Bs and living in unsafe homes. Every one of them has their
own story to tell. For 30 years Rock Trust has been listening to
their stories and helping them find a home. In All the Way Home,
some of Scotland's leading authors have come together with young
people to mark this anniversary of Rock Trust's urgent, ongoing
work. Across first-hand accounts, poetry and fiction, this
anthology brings to life the visible and invisible realities of
home and homelessness, of family and belonging.
A precious golden souvenir has disappered from Kismuil Castle in
the Island of Barra. The historic brooch was given as a gift by the
Chief of Clanranald to MacNeil of Barra in the 16th century. Or
perhaps it was treasure found from a shipwrecked galleon from the
Spanish Armada... Tha local constable, P.C. Murdo, sets out to find
out whodunit. He has seven suspects, but in his search for the
truth discovers that suspicion and prejudice make poor detectives.
Help comes from smart officers from the mainland, whose most
difficult challenge is Murdo himself.
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