Neil Gunn’s Whisky Book Pt. 1
Whisky and Scotland A Practical and Spiritual Survey* I usually skip past any paragraph the starts with: “the word: uisge-beatha
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Lightly Peated
Whisky, Blabber 'n' Smoke
Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 8
The War Years And The Uses of Positivity Neil Gunn did not serve in the forces in either World War.
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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
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 6
The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 5
Gunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 4
The Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 3
The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 2
The Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which
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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 1
A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they
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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn and the SNP
The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,
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