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A Flame In The Mearns
This collection of essays celebrates the achievements of Lewis Grassic Gibbon in his own time, as well as emphasising his continuing relevance. It contains discussions of Gibbons’ fiction, essays and poetry, together with analyses of his language and politics.
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Nan Shepherd
Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hi …
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The beginnings of publishing house Pipin’s Book go back to 2011 and our Slovenian roots. We are a sister company of the Slovenian Publishing House Pipinova Knjiga – which literary translates to Pipin’s Book. We are primarily dedicated to Slovenian – Br …