Total Secret

• Neil M. Gunn: A Highland Life by F.R. Hart and J.B. Pick
  Murray, 314 pp, £15.00, November 1982, ISBN 0 7195 3856 4

Though this satisfying and thoroughly documented book isn’t, and isn’t meant to be, a critical survey of Neil Gunn’s novels (28 of them, no less), it contains many judgments, many of which are quoted from letters and reviews. The authors tend to avoid making ‘value-judgments’ of their own, though their admiration for the books and for the man can’t help revealing itself.