Dr William K. Malcolm is Literary Director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott and joint administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate. He has taught Scottish literature for three decades and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. He has written and broadcast extensively on Mitchell/Gibbon, including editing Sunset Song for Penguin Classics.

'William K. Malcolm's book is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Setting Gibbon's writing within the tumultuous historical contexts of the period, Malcolm portrays a hugely talented and hard-working novelist of radical political commitment whose tragically short life culminated in the achievement of A Scots Quair, one of the great novel sequences in twentieth-century literature in English.'Dr Scott Lyall, Edinburgh Napier University

• AcknowledgementsBiographical OutlineAbbreviationsNote on the Texts1. Life and background2. Narrative preludes: The Calends of Cairo and Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights3. The real stuff of history: Hanno, Niger, The Conquest of the Maya and Nine Against the Unknown4. Autofiction: Stained Radiance and The Thirteenth Disciple5. Setting tales upon the truth: Three Go Back, The Lost Trumpet and Gay Hunter6. Haunted by horrors: Image and Superscription and Spartacus7. Distant cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair and Scottish Scene8. LegacyNotesBibliographyFurther Reading

Dr William K. Malcolm is Literary Director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott and joint administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate. He has taught Scottish literature for three decades and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. He has written and broadcast extensively on Mitchell/Gibbon, including editing Sunset Song for Penguin Classics.

'William K. Malcolm's book is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Setting Gibbon's writing within the tumultuous historical contexts of the period, Malcolm portrays a hugely talented and hard-working novelist of radical political commitment whose tragically short life culminated in the achievement of A Scots Quair, one of the great novel sequences in twentieth-century literature in English.'Dr Scott Lyall, Edinburgh Napier University

• AcknowledgementsBiographical OutlineAbbreviationsNote on the Texts1. Life and background2. Narrative preludes: The Calends of Cairo and Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights3. The real stuff of history: Hanno, Niger, The Conquest of the Maya and Nine Against the Unknown4. Autofiction: Stained Radiance and The Thirteenth Disciple5. Setting tales upon the truth: Three Go Back, The Lost Trumpet and Gay Hunter6. Haunted by horrors: Image and Superscription and Spartacus7. Distant cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair and Scottish Scene8. LegacyNotesBibliographyFurther Reading

Dr William K. Malcolm is Literary Director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre at Arbuthnott and joint administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate. He has taught Scottish literature for three decades and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. He has written and broadcast extensively on Mitchell/Gibbon, including editing Sunset Song for Penguin Classics.

'William K. Malcolm's book is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Setting Gibbon's writing within the tumultuous historical contexts of the period, Malcolm portrays a hugely talented and hard-working novelist of radical political commitment whose tragically short life culminated in the achievement of A Scots Quair, one of the great novel sequences in twentieth-century literature in English.'Dr Scott Lyall, Edinburgh Napier University

• AcknowledgementsBiographical OutlineAbbreviationsNote on the Texts1. Life and background2. Narrative preludes: The Calends of Cairo and Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights3. The real stuff of history: Hanno, Niger, The Conquest of the Maya and Nine Against the Unknown4. Autofiction: Stained Radiance and The Thirteenth Disciple5. Setting tales upon the truth: Three Go Back, The Lost Trumpet and Gay Hunter6. Haunted by horrors: Image and Superscription and Spartacus7. Distant cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair and Scottish Scene8. LegacyNotesBibliographyFurther Reading