Among the Picts
John Sutherland, 18 August 1994
Stained Radiance: A Fictionist’s Prelude
by J. Leslie Mitchell.
Polygon, 219 pp., £7.95, July 1993,0 7486 6141 7 Show More
by J. Leslie Mitchell.
Polygon, 219 pp., £7.95, July 1993,
The Speak of the Mearns
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Polygon, 268 pp., £8.95, June 1994,0 7486 6167 0 Show More
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Polygon, 268 pp., £8.95, June 1994,
“... readers. Shamefully, he has no entry in the DNB, a distinction he yields to such maestri as Edgar Wallace and Elinor Glyn. As a one-man great tradition, Gibbon labours under disabilities, of which being Scottish in an English-dominated culture is the heaviest. ‘Of peasant rearing and peasant stock’, he was brought up on a farm near Stonehaven. Gibbon left ... ”