Robin Jenkins

Robin Jenkins OBE was born in 1912 and has been hailed as Scotland’s greatest fiction-writer. The author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the landmark novel The Cone-Gatherers, he received the Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award in 2002 for an outstanding contribution to Scottish life and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Saltire Society in 2003. He died in 2005.

The Cone-Gatherers

The Cone-Gatherers is Robin Jenkins’ masterpiece, now with an introduction from Paul Giamatti - a haunting story of love and violence, war and envy

Just Duffy by Robin Jenkins cover

The Changeling by Robin Jenkins cover

Fergus Lamont by Robin Jenkins cover

Lady Magdalen by Robin Jenkins cover

Childish Things by Robin Jenkins cover

Childish Things

“This was the terrifying mystery, why creatures he loved should kill one another. He had been told that all over the world in the war now being fought men, women and children were being slaughtered in thousands; cities were being burnt down”

The Cone-Gatherers