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  • DUST ON THE PAW
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    DUST ON THE PAW
    ROBIN JENKINS
    Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiancee, Laura Johnstone, in the capital of his home country. Having met while Abdul was a student at Manchester University, the couple are eager to settle down in Isban. However, Abdul is not the only one interested in Miss Johnstone's arrival. Prince Naim, one of the sons of the king, s...

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  • LEILA
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    LEILA
    ROBIN JENKINS
    A Scotsman in 1950s Asia becomes entangled in love and political unrest: "As a storyteller, Jenkins has few equals." — Tribune Set in the Far East in the 1950s, Leila is a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician. Leila is, like her father, implicated in the revolutionary tremors shakin...

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  • LADY MAGDALEN
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    LADY MAGDALEN
    ROBIN JENKINS
    This beautifully rendered novel of 17th century Scotland imagines the life of Lady Magdalene, 1st Marchioness of Montrose, during the English Civil War.   Magadalen, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, shares with her childhood friend, Francis Gowrie of Mintlaw, a love of art and beauty, and a horror of barbaric practices such as the burning of women th...

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  • POOR ANGUS
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    POOR ANGUS
    ROBIN JENKINS
    "A blackly comic romp" of art, ambition, and sexual politics in the Scottish Isles: "a remarkable novel…written with the lightest of touches" ( The Sunday Times, UK).   Struggling painter Angus McAllister has returned to the idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. But soon, his privacy is invaded by Janet, a visitor ...

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  • THE PEARL-FISHERS
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    THE PEARL-FISHERS
    ROBIN JENKINS
    An outsider arrives in rural Scotland, but finds her hopes for a new home elusive in a novel by the author of The Cone-Gatherers: "A remarkable writer." — The Times When the beautiful pearl-fisher Effie Williamson arrives in a rural Scottish village with her traveler grandparents and siblings not long after the end of World War II, the residents react in many different ways, fr...

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  • THE CHANGELING
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    THE CHANGELING
    ROBIN JENKINS
    A "witty, affecting novel" of a friendship between a troubled teenager and his well-meaning teacher—and the tragic path it sets them on ( Financial Times). Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Charlie'...

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  • JUST DUFFY
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    JUST DUFFY
    ROBIN JENKINS
    This "challenging and absorbing" novel by the author of The Cone Gatherers explores evil done in the name of goodness with "a powerful and mordant irony" ( The Scotsman, UK).   Set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins's Just Duffy reads like a modern-day  Confession of a Justified Sinner. A teenager named Duffy, convinced of his own moral rectitude and appalled ...

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  • THE CONE-GATHERERS
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    THE CONE-GATHERERS
    ROBIN JENKINS
    The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII "has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance" (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pinecones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. Once the forest is cut down to support the war effort, the cones will be used to repleni...

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