NEVER MISS AN ISSUE!

Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter.

  • This field is hidden when viewing the form
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Turnpike Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780993591310

RRP: £10

PAGES: 186

PUBLICATION DATE:
March 23, 2017

BUY THIS BOOK

As an Amazon Associate and Bookshop.org affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases.

The Bagpiping People: Selected Short Stories

Douglas Dunn is one of the major poets of our time and, also, a master of the short story.

In these stories of village life, amid secrets and hidden desires, Dunn captures the character and personality of contemporary Scotland, the bonds and tensions of its communities and the possibility of righting the wrongs of the past.

Share this

Douglas Dunn

Douglas Dunn was born in 1942 in Renfrewshire. His first correction of poetry, Terry Street, was published in 1969 and in 1985 Dunn won the Whitbread Book of the  Year for Elegies and became Professor of English Literature at St Andrews University in 1991. Among his collections of poetry are St Kilda’s Parliament and Dante’s Drum Kit. He has also edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry.