Robin Jenkins
Birth date: September 21, 1912
Died: February 24, 2005
Robin Jenkins's Books
The cone-gatherers of the title are two labourers on a Scottish estate during the Second World War, who spend their days gathering pine-cones from the treetops so that the forest can be replanted after being cut down for lumber to help the war effort. A job so unexpected and remote from modern-day l...
This is an old-fashioned book, but that’s not a complaint. Written in the mid-1950’s, it describes a world almost as remote and alien to us now as the medieval period or the Regency. Superficially there are resemblances - suburban houses, family life, schools with teachers and pupils, ‘difficult’ es...
I had to read this for school when I was a lad. I didn't much enjoy the experience. Even at that age, despite having never read it, the book struck me as a poor man's Of Mice and Men.
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