Linmill Stories EPUB

by Robert McLellan

Part of the Canongate Classics series

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Introduced by J.K. Annand. Best known as the playwright of Jamie the Saxt and Jeddart Justice, Robert McLellan has been called the finest writer of Scots prose in our time.

His â€˜Linmillâ€™ stories were broadcast by the BBC, one of which, â€˜The Donegalsâ€™ was made into a film.

But for the most part McLellanâ€™s prose work has appeared in magazines or anthologies without being fully collected in book form.

Their popularity has endured and now all twenty-four of his tales are available in one volume. Based on the authorâ€™s youthful memories of his grandparentsâ€™ fruit farm near Lanark, these finely observed stories give us a priceless insight into a generation now lost to us, and a timeless evocation of the world seen through the eyes of a young boy.

There is honesty, compassion, harshness and humour in these stories, and McLellanâ€™s quiet voice adds a unique wit and an unsentimental authenticity to the telling. â€˜This must rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have.â€™ Douglas Giffordâ€˜It is possible to find light and depth in each of these stories, yet their common engine is neither plot nor character, but McLellanâ€™s use of language.

It is hard not to agree with J.K. Annandâ€™s final assessment that Robert McLellan is â€œthe greatest writer of Scots prose in the twentieth centuryâ€.â€™ Books in Scotland