Category: Literature

Neil Gunn’s Whisky Book – Pt. 2

Whisky and Scotland The Bit About Whisky “To the make of a piper’ says Neil Munro ‘go seven years of

I usually skip past any paragraph the starts with: “the word: uisge-beatha comes from the Gaelic and means ‘the water

Individual TranscendenceGunn’s pathway to Zen There are two doctoral theses on Gunn. One, by Christopher Stokoe (2007)¹, looks at the

The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,

Gunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.

The Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.

The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a

The Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which

A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they