The Fiction of Robin Jenkins ─ Some Kind of Grace

The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever study of Jenkins, described by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in British literature’. It includes essays examining Jenkins’s entire corpus by an established number of experts.

Dr Linden Bicket (PhD 2012, University of Glasgow) is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her first monograph on George Mackay Brown will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017.Douglas Gifford is Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. His publications include James Hogg: A Critical Study (1976), and Neil Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon; A Critical Study (1983). He co-edited (with Dorothy McMillan, 1997) A History of Scottish Women’s Writing (1997) and (with Edward Cowan, 1999) The Polar Twins: Scottish History and Scottish Literature. He was leading editor of Scottish Literature in English and Scots (2002), and (with Alan Riach) edited Scotlands: Poets and the Nation (2004). He was till recently Honorary Librarian of Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford. He a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Vice President of the Saltire Society.