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"Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the...
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'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN ...
"Mary is a communications expert, passionate and compassionate about the strange and often unnerving life forms she encounters on her travels to dista...
With the Varangs' Saga
In her novels, Naomi Mitchison frequently tackled serious issues, war and peace, conflicts of loyalties, freedom and slavery, and of course feminism. ...
As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer ...
During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five vol...
An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers The Fourth Pig, originally published i...
During a long drought in Botswana when money for school is scarce, a thirteen-year-old girl discovers that her skill at making pottery is the key to h...
A Novel
Greek Stories
Lobsters on the Agenda is a contemporary novel of the 1950s in a West Highland setting and retains a refreshing air of topicality. In a small fishing ...
Girlhood and Marriage
A Memoir, 1920-1940
In Interview
These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and wor...
Introd. by Hilary Rubinstein
A huge consortium of commerical organizations have organized their efforts and now can produce free food for every person in the world. The principal ...
How the Slaves in Rome Found Victory in Christ
A new addition to the popular Christian Epics series. In a society where worshiping God is a crime punishable by death, and brutality to slaves is com...
Short Stories and Poems
When Graeme found a baby dragon things stopped being just everydayish. For instance, For instance, one day he came across a bear's skin airing on a tr...
The Story of Bram Fischer
The Conquered was young Naomi Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, just five years after the end of the First World War, in 1918. Mitchison cho...
Scottish Short Stories