Tag: Highlands

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 7

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

Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,

This really is a beautiful and peaceful place to visit. I arrive early, an hour before my tour, and spend

The stills of Glen Garioch still carry the image of a deer, which used to be the distillery’s emblem. This

Many distilleries have remote and beautiful locations: beside rivers, on the edge of the sea, nestling into the mountainside. There