Scottish writer James Leslie Mitchell, writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, gained prominence for his trilogy A Scots Quair, particularly its initial volume, Sunset Song. His works, celebrated for their realist narrative and lyrical use of dialect, are considered seminal to the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Mitchell dedicated himself to full-time writing from 1929, and his distinctive approach drew attention from early on, even capturing the notice of H. G. Wells.
When a country experiences a civil war, media reports are mainly brought to the attention of the outside world by those who can only report on the surface impressions obtained during a short visit or from the comfort of a studio thousands of miles away.
The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700. This title paints a portrait, of which politics forms only a small part, of an extraordinary group of men and women whose power, taste and intellect dominated the centre of what had become the greatest power in the world.
This partly autobiographical first novel sketches the lives of ordinary people living through the Jazz Age and the troubled sexuality of the times.
Writing as J. Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon tells the semiautobiographical story of Malcom Maudsley, who grows up before World War I in the Aberdeenshire countryside that was later to form the backdrop for Gibbon's Scot's Quair Trilogy.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's remarkable trilogy, which includes Sunset Song, 'the best Scottish book of all time'