'The library is situated,'said the short entry in the Guide to British LibrariesA-L...

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charmi...

When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the ey...

This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here! It is sh...

'The Year of the Short Corn' was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath...

This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart plan...

This volume includes a selection of Scottish writing from one of its most innovative periods, the...

Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her grandda...

John Manson's collection of letters to MacDiarmid, or to Christopher Grieve, or to Hugh or Chris ...

'The Bull Calves' was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising...

First published in this format in 1884, this early chronological account forms a complete overvie...

The writing career of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) stretched over some seventy years, encompassing...