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  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 3
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh, and from at least the late 1930s onwards she was not only passionately interested in Scottish landscape and history but involved in Scottish politics and current affairs. A first glance at the pieces collected here might suggest that her Scotland comprised only the West Highlands which she knew so well. Much of her journalism stems from he...
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    32,24 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 4
    Naomi Mitchison
    The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and because it’s ’simply not interesting’. So says Alfred Dube, Botswana’s High Commissioner in London. As a generalisation, he may be right. But turn the coin and realise that many thousands of people in Britain, with no direct contact with this country, owe their knowledge of it to a single...
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    32,29 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 5
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison travelled extensively outside Britain, writing freely about her adventures and tribulations, her disturbing experiences and those of others. This volume includes autobiographical material and newspaper reporting, as well as more detached observations, written from 1929 through to the mid-1980s, and covers every continent except South America. Geographically, the...
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    32,20 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 6
    Naomi Mitchison
    With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that political thinking, anecdote, frustration and reflection appear across the spectrum and therefore are not exclusive to this volume.Those brought together here - dating from as early as 1923 in Fascist Italy, through more than 60 years, to the lack of women in the U.K Parliament - show...
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    32,39 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 7
    Naomi Mitchison
    This volume covers from 1935 to 1993, over a wide range of topics. Often serious, with passion, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, Mitchison looks at issues of the day, and reflects, usually critically, on how society is being affected by current affairs, usually for the worse.Articles rarely confine themselves to a narrow perspective.The volume includes the entire text of the extended...
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    32,10 €

  • Collected Poems
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) wrote, during her long life, in more or less every genre one could name: fiction, essays, drama, children’s books, and poetry. Much of her writing has been brought back into print, but no sustained effort has so far been made to collect and consider her poetry. This volume is a first step towards that.Only two poetry collections were published during...
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    26,83 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 1
    Naomi Mitchison
    Among over eighty articles in this volume are Mitchison’s earliest known published non-fiction, her thoughts on motherhood and children - and her contributions to the debate on contraception, including the pamphlet 'Comments On Birth Control' published separately in 1930.As well as the text of her editorial for the collection of essays 'An Outline for Boys and Girls and their P...
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    32,28 €

  • Return to the Fairy Hill
    Naomi Mitchison
    'If I had been told that I would get into a position where, in common with 30,000 other people, I would love and honour this young man as my Chief, I would have said this was impossible for a European intellectual, even with a Highland background. This book shows just how it happened.' -NMOn its first publication, in 1966, Geoffrey Household wrote:Now, here really is a love sto...
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    21,87 €

  • Uncollected Stories 1923-1997
    Naomi Mitchison
    In her lifetime, Naomi Mitchison wrote over two hundred and fifty pieces of fiction which can be described as short stories. Many of these were brought together in the stand-alone collections: When the Bough Breaks (1924), Barbarian Stories (1929), The Hostages (1930), Boys and Girls and Gods (1931), African Heroes (1968), The Brave Nurse (1977), Images of Africa (1980), Beyond...
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    21,75 €

  • The Family at Ditlabeng and other tales from Botswana
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison spent many years visiting, then living with, the Bakgatla of Botswana. During that time, she wrote a great deal about the tribal structure, social culture and behaviour of the population. Some of that writing was in the form of these stories collected here, ostensibly for children. This was her opportunity to describe in simple detail the problems and difficulti...
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    24,62 €

  • Graeme and the Dragon and other stories for young readers
    Naomi Mitchison
    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume brings together the longer story collections Graeme and the Dragon (1954), Little Boxes (1956), Henny and Crispies (1964), and Sun and Moon (1970) together with the short Highla...
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    17,67 €

  • The Rib of the Green Umbrella and Karensgaard
    Naomi Mitchison
    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume contains two books. Firstly, the straightforward tale of a family’s Resistance in Italy during the Second World War, The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960). Secondly, Karensgaard,...
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    19,72 €

  • The Fairy Who Couldn’t Tell A Lie
    Naomi Mitchison
    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume contains The Fairy Who Couldn’t Tell A Lie, The Big Surprise, Don’t Look Back, A Danish Teapot and The Two Magicians. ...
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    17,54 €

  • The Far Harbour with Henny and Crispies
    Naomi Mitchison
    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume brings together two books about life for young adults in the west of Scotland. The Far Harbour was first published in 1957. Henny and Crispies appeared in 1964. Also included ...
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    17,70 €

  • The Gannet’s Path
    Naomi Mitchison
    During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a number of books for younger readers, many of which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. The two books in this volume are re-imaginings of the Norse sagas of the early second millennium. The Swan’s Road was first published in 1954, and The Land the Ravens Found followed in ...
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    20,65 €

  • When the Bough Breaks with Black Sparta
    Naomi Mitchison
    This volume brings together the stories and poems from When the Bough Breaks, published in 1924, and Black Sparta, published in 1928. They are: A Sophist in love; ’A wood near Athens’; Arrow-struck; Babes in the wood; Black Sparta; Charilas, in exile, remembers Sparta; Coming into the bay; Cottia went to Bibracte; Got to put up with it now; Krypteia; O Lucky Thessaly!; Peace; P...
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    29,91 €

  • What Do You Think Yourself? with A Girl Must Live
    Naomi Mitchison
    This volume contains the short stories and poems from What Do you Think Yourself?, published in 1982, and A Girl Must Live, published in 1990.From What Do You Think Yourself? they are: Orkney Story; The Black Jacket; The Sea Horse; The Hill Modipe; The Red Fellows; The Warning; Call Me; The Return; What Do You Think Yourself?; Social Readjustment; Should We Believe Postie?; In...
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    27,21 €

  • Barbarian Stories, with The Hostages, and Boys and Girls and Gods
    Naomi Mitchison
    This volume brings together the stories from Barbarian Stories, published in 1929, The Hostages (1930) and Boys and Girls and Gods (1931). They are: The barley field, Steague Fort, Niempsor Kar, A matter of no importance, Arminius in the cherry tree, Mascaret, Laeta, The amphitheatre at Pola, ’I’m a Business Man’, The Konung of white walls, ’Oh gay are the garlands!’, The goat,...
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    32,64 €

  • Bridges of Understanding
    Naomi Mitchison
    African Heroes, published in 1968, contains: The Kings Beyond the Desert; The Story of the Emir of the Faithful,  Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu; The Greatest Mani of Kongo; The Golden Stool of Ashanti; The Boy from the Bush; Shaka of the Amazulu; The Mountain of the Night; Kgamanyane of the Bakgatla; Lobengula of the Amandebele; Khama of the Bamangwato; The Great Tree Falls. Images...
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    27,62 €

  • Judy and Lakshmi
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison had travelled to India in 1951 and to Madras (Chennai) in 1958, after which she visited her brother Jack. He was by then living an Indian lifestyle in Calcutta (Kolkata) with which she found it difficult to empathise - in stark contrast to her own later immersion in a Botswana community. As was her habit, she sought to understand the country and her reactions to...
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    22,02 €

  • Not By Bread Alone
    Naomi Mitchison
    In 1983, at the age of 86, Naomi Mitchison published Not By Bread Alone. Sixty years had passed since the publication of her first novel, The Conquered. As a lifelong advocate of socialism and feminism, Mitchison draws upon the speculative imaginary in Not By Bread Alone to put forward and strategise political concerns which remain uncomfortably pertinent. The narrative transpo...
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    25,69 €

  • To the Chapel Perilous
    Naomi Mitchison
    In his 1999 Introduction to the first reprint of this novel from 1955 - a year of the Cold War that began with the Baghdad Pact and ended with the official start of the Vietnam War - Raymond H. Thompson described Naomi Mitchison’s contribution to the Arthurian tradition as ’not only a comic masterpiece, but a guidebook into spiritual growth’. She achieves this by drawing on her...
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    22,12 €

  • The Oath-Takers and Sea-Green Ribbons
    Naomi Mitchison
    ’We story-tellers have a delightful time playing with history, perhaps finding something fascinating, perhaps making dreadful mistakes.’Here, in The Oath-Takers, the ’central maypole round which the people ... must swing and fall’ is Charlemagne, and one of ’the people’ a young man who makes his journey to manhood in a world of feudalism and a powerful Church.In the second shor...
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    22,15 €

  • Other People’s Worlds, and Mucking Around
    Helen Lloyd / Naomi Mitchison
    In 1957, Naomi Mitchison enjoyed two months ’of observation and thought’ as she travelled in parts of postcolonial West Africa. She was the guest of friends new and old and, in Ghana, stayed at the Press Hotel, in her then role as a correspondent with The Manchester Guardian. Her reflections are presented in chapters - on social bars and classes, language, words, history, relig...
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    21,84 €

  • Early in Orcadia
    Naomi Mitchison
    Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years apart in time and dealing with different characters, but connected by their location in a particular corner of Orkney during the period known as the Stone Age. Mitchison links them formally by interpolating passages of fact and explanation between the fictional episodes, and by spe...
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    22,28 €

  • Five Men and a Swan
    Naomi Mitchison
    This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is recognisably a ’Carradale book’, containing as it does vivid and realistic stories and poems of the landscape and the people. Mitchison had moved to the village in Kintyre, on the west coast of Scotland, some twenty years before and was still much involved in its affairs, supporting the fishing fleet and running her o...
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    22,36 €

  • The Bull Calves
    Naomi Mitchison
    'The Bull Calves' was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her home in Carradale, Kintyre, keeping open house for evacuees and refugees, running the farm and driving the tractor, organising the local Labour Party, and writing and producing for the dramatic society - and so on. She also wrote a d...
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    28,88 €

  • We Have Been Warned
    Naomi Mitchison
    This is Naomi Mitchison’s least successful novel, and new readers should not start here! It is shaped by her own life and fears in her own experience in 1931, and is the first of her novels and stories not to have a historical setting. Mitchison was appalled by the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy, and wanted to warn the world. She was rather dismayed by the results of the ...
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    29,88 €

  • The Delicate Fire
    Naomi Mitchison
    The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison’s work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here Mitchison effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and ’Lovely Mantinea’. By the end, she seems wholly turned to the twentieth century - a new departure for her - tackling subjects suc...
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    24,98 €

  • Memoirs of a Spacewoman
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. Isobel Murray’s Introduction here argues that it is by no means ’pure’ Scienc...
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    21,10 €


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