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  • Poet’s Pub

    A Comic Novel of Writers, Eccentrics, Romance, and an English Inn

    by Eric Linklater ...
    An English country inn becomes the unlikely headquarters for poets, dreamers, schemers, lovers, and an assortment of people who seem constitutionally incapable of behaving sensibly. When a group of literary-minded characters takes over the running of a pub, conventional hospitality quickly gives way to something considerably more unpredictable. Guests arrive carrying ambitions, romantic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Private Angelo

    by Eric Linklater ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    This satirical novel of a young innocent caught in the fascist machinery of WWII offers "the drollest medley of muddle and misadventure" ( The Sunday Times, UK).A private in Mussolini's 'ever-glorious' Italian army, Angelo may possess the virtues of love and innocence, but he lacks the gift of courage. And yet, due to circumstances beyond his control, he ends up fighting not only for Italy but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea

    by Eric Linklater ...
    The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Wind on the Moon

    by Eric Linklater ...
    Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley ...
    A Carnegie Medal winner, this delightful fantasy will appeal to children who love Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows.Major Palfrey is leaving for the wars, and he tells his two girls, Dinah and Dorinda, to be good while he is gone. But the sisters aren’t sure they can be. As Dorinda explains, “When we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dark of Summer

    by Eric Linklater ...
    In the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own.No one who reads this book will forget the frozen corpse tied to a chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken seamen, or the raging storm which batters their, ship as they carry the body to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Poet's Pub

    by Eric Linklater ...
    A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and witComprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet's Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Defence of Calais

    The Army at War Series

    by Eric Linklater ...
    It is a tale of defeat, but when defeat is characterised by valour of a certain pitch and quality, its memory may outlast a tale of victory. And like the Burghers who came with ropes about their necks, to offer their lives that a whole people might be spared, the men who fought at Calais, and helped to save a British army, will surely be remembered.In the introduction to The Defence of Calais, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Northern Garrisons

    The Army at War Series

    by Eric Linklater ...
    The Northern Garrisons visits the soldiers of WWII in some of the most barren and inhospitable of outposts. Eric Linklater, in his mission to document the lives, trials and achievements of these men, travelled to Shetland, Orkney, the Faeroes and Iceland. In Iceland Linklater notes how quickly the soldiers must adapt to their surroundings whilst trying to engage a local population that is somewhat ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Highland Division

    The Army at War Series

    by Eric Linklater ...
    The Highland Territorials were made up of the 51st Division, who had fought bravely in the Great War, and entered WWII with a fearsome and loyal reputation. Here Erik Linklater draws from letters and War diaries alongside the official table of movements to construct a vivid picture of the battles, triumphs, and ultimately defeat, of the Highland Division in France. Not only do we see the tactical ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Terrible Freedom

    by Eric Linklater ...
    First published in 1966, Eric Linklater's brilliant novel tells the story of a double existence.Evan Gaffikin, sixtyish, grumpy and bored with his dull commercial success, discovers and develops his power to dream: to dream in such depth and in such glowing reality that he is able to escape his extraordinary existence. We learn of his double life as scenes from Gaffikin's real life alternate with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Spell For Old Bones

    by Eric Linklater ...
    "When the giants fell, old bones revived" - there is the rubric for Eric Linklater's new story, first published in 1949. There may be no historical foundation for his tale of a fantastic war, in the First century A.D., between the giant Furbister and the abominable Od McGammon, his neighbour in the south-west of Scotland; but their quarrel - which provides a background to the engaging love-story ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Merry Muse

    by Eric Linklater ...
    A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it.As the manuscript is lost, found again, stolen, and variously shuttles back and forth, the infection of its bawdiness ... Read more

    $6.99 USD