Sunset Song
- 6 Feb 2020
- 9781786898616
- £12.99
- 288 pp
- 144×220mm
- 1 Apr 2021
- 9781838851972
- £7.99
- 288 pp
- 129×198mm
- 26 Nov 2015
- 9781782118374
- £22.99
- 11 hrs 6 min
- 20 Nov 2008
- 9781847673596
- £2.99
- 288 pp
In a few words
The Scottish masterpiece – introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
In a few words
The Scottish masterpiece – introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
In a few words
The full unabridged audio of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel, released to tie in with the major motion picture
In a few words
The Scottish masterpiece – introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched
Ali Smith
If this new edition is prompting you to re-read Sunset Song after many years, as I have just done, you will find it has lost none of its appeal and emotion. And if you are about to read this remarkable novel for the first time, you are embarking on a profound journey
Nicola Sturgeon
Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched
Ali Smith
If this new edition is prompting you to re-read Sunset Song after many years, as I have just done, you will find it has lost none of its appeal and emotion. And if you are about to read this remarkable novel for the first time, you are embarking on a profound journey
Nicola Sturgeon
Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched
Ali Smith
Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless
Anne Donovan
Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched
Ali Smith
If this new edition is prompting you to re-read Sunset Song after many years, as I have just done, you will find it has lost none of its appeal and emotion. And if you are about to read this remarkable novel for the first time, you are embarking on a profound journey
Nicola Sturgeon
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Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and Chris finds her land altered beyond recognition.
In lyrical prose, Sunset Song evokes village life in the early twentieth century and offers a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil.
This stunning new edition of one of the most cherished Scottish novels of the twentieth century includes a specially commissioned introduction by Nicola Sturgeon, in which she writes with heartfelt passion of her love for what she regards as ‘one of the finest literary accomplishments Scotland has ever known . . . In no small way, I owe my love of literature to Sunset Song‘.
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Twice Voted Scotland’s Favourite Book
‘Left me scorched’ Ali Smith
‘Unforgettable’ Guardian
Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and Chris finds her land altered beyond recognition.
One of the greatest and most heartbreaking love stories ever told,, Sunset Song offers a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil.
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Now a major motion picture directed by Terence Davies, starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine Chris Guthrie. In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris’s resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything, and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.
More about
the book
Twice Voted Scotland’s Favourite Book
‘Left me scorched’ Ali Smith
‘Unforgettable’ Guardian
Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and Chris finds her land altered beyond recognition.
One of the greatest and most heartbreaking love stories ever told,, Sunset Song offers a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil.
Portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today
An unforgettable evocation of a way of life that has slipped away . . . It is a love song for a landscape and language still familiar – and precious – to a generation born long after [Grassic-Gibbon] died . . . Chris is one of the great women of 20th-century fiction
Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless
Anne Donovan
It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels
Portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today
An unforgettable evocation of a way of life that has slipped away . . . It is a love song for a landscape and language still familiar – and precious – to a generation born long after [Grassic-Gibbon] died . . . Chris is one of the great women of 20th-century fiction
Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless
Anne Donovan
It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels
This book may be read with delight the world over
Beautifully written . . . While describing a way of life in decline, it also presents a vision of hope for the future via its strong female lead character
It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels
Jim Naughtie
Daily ExpressCries out for the widest international audience
Portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today
An unforgettable evocation of a way of life that has slipped away . . . It is a love song for a landscape and language still familiar – and precious – to a generation born long after he died . . . Chris is one of the great women of 20th-century fiction
Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless
Anne Donovan
It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
View profileLewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35) is the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell. Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three. He is today recognised as one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature, most famous for A Scots Quair, the trilogy of novels which begins with Sunset Song.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
View profileLewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35) is the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell. Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three. He is today recognised as one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature, most famous for A Scots Quair, the trilogy of novels which begins with Sunset Song.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
View profileJames Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland’s North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother’s name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
View profileLewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35) is the pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell. Born and brought up in the rich farming land of North East Scotland, he was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full-length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-three. He is today recognised as one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature, most famous for A Scots Quair, the trilogy of novels which begins with Sunset Song.
