Double Heider
Twa Novellas in Scots - "Loon", "The Girnin Gates"
Will be published approx. on 27. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-902927-72-5 (ISBN)
Description
These two novellas - on related themes but very different in approach and narrative voice - are bound back to back or 'heelstergowdie', the Scots for 'back to front' or 'head over heels'.
Loon, by Sheena Blackhall, tells the story of Donnie Paterson and how his troubled life is turned around by the discovery of his missing grandfather in a retirement home and a holiday in the Highlands where he hears a strange story that becomes the key to solving his problems.
In Gilbert McGlinchy, by Hamish MacDonald, the eponymous narrator has the weight of the world's woes on his shoulders so sets out to make his drab Clydebank surroundings exotic by embarking on a story-telling journey - the rationale for which only slowly unfolds.
Presented in a single volume, these two novellas meet, quite literally, halfway.
Loon, by Sheena Blackhall, tells the story of Donnie Paterson and how his troubled life is turned around by the discovery of his missing grandfather in a retirement home and a holiday in the Highlands where he hears a strange story that becomes the key to solving his problems.
In Gilbert McGlinchy, by Hamish MacDonald, the eponymous narrator has the weight of the world's woes on his shoulders so sets out to make his drab Clydebank surroundings exotic by embarking on a story-telling journey - the rationale for which only slowly unfolds.
Presented in a single volume, these two novellas meet, quite literally, halfway.
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Language
Other
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bonnier Books Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 128 mm
Weight
194 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-902927-72-5 (9781902927725)
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Persons
Sheena Blackhall is a prize-winning poet and fiction writer and is the author of many collections of short stories and poems written in Doric or North-East Scots. She is Creative Writing Fellow at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute. She has a short story in Pure Ghosters, published by Itchy Coo, and her books include The Singing Bird, Stagwyse (Selected Poems) and Hielanman's Sporran.