Dream Angus The Celtic God of Dreams
- 6 Jun 2019
- 9781786894533
- £9.99
- 192 pp
- 129×198mm
- 8 Jun 2012
- 9780857865656
- £17.99
- 3 hrs 8 min
- 30 Oct 2008
- 9781847673992
- £7.99
- 192 pp
In a few words
The powerful retelling of the Celtic myth of Angus, god of dreams, from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author
In a few words
Dreams to sell, fine dreams to sell… Read by Michael Page
In a few words
The powerful retelling of the Celtic myth of Angus, god of dreams, from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author
An enchanting tale
A gem-like piece of work
Alexander McCall Smith's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision. This is art that conceals art.
One of the most ambitious acts of mass storytelling in recent years.
Alexander McCall Smith's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision. This is art that conceals art.
One of the most ambitious acts of mass storytelling in recent years.
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Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty.
In this mesmerising retelling of the Celtic myth, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life but the pursuit of dreams?
The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
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If he’s in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with him, but he’ll never love you back. He’s too busy making mischief, stealing the palace of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs etc ; until he is trapped by his own romantic games and falls for an unattainable woman, doomed to seek her forever.
In twentieth-century Scotland, Angus’s troubled alter ego searches for his true family and identity; a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, his life seems to parallel that of his mythic namesake, until we ask, could they be one and the same?
Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?
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Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty.
In this mesmerising retelling of the Celtic myth, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life but the pursuit of dreams?
McCall Smith brings to the Angus story a sly and deceptive simplicity, combined with a charm that has a line of tight, sharp wire running all the way through it . . . A book that is full of small marvels . . . Resonant and deeply unsettling
John Burnside
GuardianPerhaps the finest I have read from the McCall Smith pen
Reads like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book . . . Well-written and smartly contemporary
The most ambitious simultaneous worldwide publication ever undertaken.
The most ambitious simultaneous worldwide publication ever undertaken.
Alexander McCall Smith
View profileAlexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. Many of his books have become bestsellers throughout the world and he has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for Services to Literature in 2007. He lives in Scotland.
Alexander McCall Smith
View profileAlexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. In 2003 he was the winner of the UK’s principal award for humorous writing, the Saga Award, and in the same year he won the Glenfiddich Award for Writing. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Scotland.
Alexander McCall Smith
View profileAlexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. Many of his books have become bestsellers throughout the world and he has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for Services to Literature in 2007. He lives in Scotland.
