Linmill Stories

Robert McLellan

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847675453
• Print ISBN:
  9780862412821

Best known as the playwright of Jamie the Saxt and Jeddart Justice, Robert McLellan has been called the finest writer of Scots prose in our time. His 'Linmill' stories were broadcast by the BBC, one of which, 'The Donegals' was made into a film. But for the most part McLellan's prose work has appeared in magazines or anthologies without being fully collected in book form. Their popularity has endured and now all twenty-four of his tales are available in one volume.

Based on the author's youthful memories of his grandparents' fruit farm near Lanark, these finely observed stories give us a priceless insight into a generation now lost to us, and a timeless evocation of the world seen through the eyes of a young boy. There is honesty, compassion, harshness and humour in these stories, and McLellan's quiet voice adds a unique wit and an unsentimental authenticity to the telling.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Pownie
• Chapter Two: The Kittlins
• Chapter Three: The Mennans
• Chapter Four: The Donegals
• Chapter Five: The Daftie
• Chapter Six: The Saubbath
• Chapter Seven: The Robin
• Chapter Eight: The Trap
• Chapter Nine: The Ringlets
• Chapter Ten: The Auchenheath Races
• Chapter Eleven: The Spree
• Chapter Twelve: A Drive To Lanark
• Chapter Thirteen: The Trace Horses
• Chapter Fourteen: The Shelties
• Chapter Fifteen: The Shed
• Chapter Sixteen: The Carlin Stane
• Chapter Seventeen: Sunnyside
• Chapter Eighteen: The Black Stallion
• Chapter Nineteen: The Aipple
• Chapter Twenty: The Nest
• Chapter Twenty One: The Creddle Knot
• Chapter Twenty Two: The Shuilfie
• Chapter Twenty Three: The Communion
• Chapter Twenty Four: The Falls Brae
• Glossary
• About the Author
• Copyright