Synopsis:

James Kelman’s oblique, wry and open-ended short stories reveal him to be a master of the form, and this selection offers some of his best work.

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This selection of J.M. Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes to be found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy, sexual anxiety, social comedy and proto-feminism.

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Collected for the first time are twenty-six tales, superbly edited and introduced by Linda Williamson, from Scotland - and arguably Britain's - finest storyteller.

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James Hogg's incomparable stories of the supernatural hark back to the oral traditions of his own upbringing and tales of wonder around the fireside.

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Considered by Douglas Gifford to ‘rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have’, this collection sees one of Scotland's finest playwrights and poets sharing his favourite childhood memories in a set of twenty-four short stories narrated in the Scots dialect.

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Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, the voices in these stories display the peaks of Smith’s wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in re-telling the past.

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These mysterious and fascinating legends retain their spellbinding enchantment through the luminous quality of Thomson’s prose. In the Selkie legends he found the perfect expression of a Celtic world where fiction and truth intertwine, and his book is a window onto that vanished world.
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A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophesies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures.

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