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John Robin Jenkins
1912 - 2005
Robin Jenkins
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Primary (not all first publication dates)

So gaily sings the lark Maclellan 1951

Happy for the child: A novel Lehmann 1953

The Thistle and the Grail Macdonald 1954

The cone-gatherers Macdonald 1955

The missionaries Macdonald 1957

The changeling Macdonald 1958

Love is a fervent fire Macdonald 1959

Dust on the paw Macdonald & Co 1961

The tiger of gold Macdonald & Co 1962

A love of innocence Cape 1963

The sardana dancers Cape 1964

Very Scotch Affair Gollancz 1968

Holy Tree Gollancz 1969

The Expatriates Gollancz 1971

Exploitation Paladin 1971

Toast to the Lord Gollancz 1972

Far Cry from Bowmore Gollancz 1973

Figure of Fun Gollancz 1974

Would-be Saint Gollancz 1978

Road to Alto Pluto Press 1979

Fergus Lamont Canongate 1980

Guests of War Isobel Murray (Editor) Scottish Academic Press 1988

Poverty Castle Balnain Books 1991

Leila Polygon 1995

Just Duffy Canongate Classics Edinburgh 1995

Lunderston Tales Polygon 1996

Willie Hogg Polygon October 1997

Matthew and Sheila Polygon 1998

Poor Angus Canongate Edinburgh 2000,

Childish Things Canongate Edinburgh 2001

Lady Magdalen Canongate Edinburgh 2003

Some Kind of Grace Polygon 2004

Secondary

Ten modern Scottish stories / selected with an introduction, talking points and an appendix on the art of the short story by Robert Millar and J.T. Low. London : Heinemann Educational, 1973.

Ten modern Scottish novels / Isobel Murray and Bob Tait. Aberdeen ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Aberdeen University Press, 1984

‘Disruptions: The Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins’ by Glenda Norquay in ‘The Scottish Novel Since the 1970’s’ Edinburgh University Press 1994

Family and the Scottish working-class novel, 1984-1994 : a study of novels by Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, Robin Jenkins, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, William McIlvanney, Agnes Owens, Alan Spence and George Friel
Horst Prillinger. Frankfurt am Main ; Oxford : Peter Lang, c2000

Pilgrims of conscience : quests for morality and self-knowledge in the fiction of Robin Jenkins Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir. Thesis, University of Glasgow 2001.

 


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