![]() To find out more, please email out more about our Postgraduate Publishing programme. Such copies are therefore distributed freely, although a handling charge may apply. ![]() The production of many of these titles is supported by charitable trusts and other bodies. We edit, design, create, publish and distribute (donate) books to schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutional libraries. He was best known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television. Books to Bairns is one of our initiatives. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell 1 (13 February 1901 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. Our work focuses on providing books to disadvantaged readers. Written with an extraordinary command of language and rhythm, Sunset Song transpires against the larger backdrop of the coming of modernisation to Scotland and the passing of an age. Set in the fictional village of Kinraddie, in Kincardineshire, Scotland, the novel follows Chris Guthrie, an intelligent, sensitive young woman as she comes of age in the early 20th century.Įmotionally tied to the land, while also longing for the promises offered by education, Chris struggles to carve her own identity. ![]() Sunset Song is the first novel in the acclaimed Scots Quair trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Price: c.£7.99 (free to schools) Listed as one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of all Time. ![]()
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