Son of the manse Horatio Pagan yearns for a God-given and exalted destiny ― and discovers it in the murder of an aristocrat.
John Herdman's beautiful and mysterious Edinburgh tale, Pagan's Pilgrimage, first published in Scotland 1978.
"A sustained and often brilliant performance ... sheer comic invention and verbal ingenuity ... This is an observant, intelligent and humorous novel of great merit."
The Scotsman
".... the writing is brilliant .....a kind of exploration of the Scottish soul .... An unforgettable piece of writing."
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Leamington Books publishes a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles under our ethos, transformative publishing.
We are a small publishing business based in Edinburgh specialising in new writers and in training new publishers.
Our most recent commercial title is S6 AN RB MCGEHEE SCOOP by TS Westbrook.
Recently as part of our intern program, our imprint GOTHIC WORLD LITERATURE EDITIONS has been producing exciting new editions of Public Domain works, such as ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS by Emma Goldman.
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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Bidh Marcas ag obair tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig, na Beurla is na Polàrais agus tha e na sgrìobhadair a choisinn deagh chliù is iomadach duais. Thathar an dùil ris an treas co-chruinneachadh aige - 'Polaris' - le Leamington Books.
Karen Taylor
Karen is a University of East Anglia alumni crime writer whose novel Fairest Creatures was longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger.
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Charlie Roy
Debut novelist Charlie Roy is the author of The Broken Pane. In prose as in poetry, her work focuses on women’s lives, mental health and family.
Sonia Hadj Said
Sonia Hadj Said is a Polish-Tunisian writer based in Edinburgh. she’s an author of a novel Jasminowa rewolucja published in Poland in 2015. She worked as a columnist for an online news outlet londynek between 2013-2015 and opened her own platform why magazine in 2017.
Siné Kang
With confidence in the written word, Sine’s novella The Ground rouses the readers mind in concepts and thoughts that will preoccupy a mind long after the work has been completed.
Jim Ferguson
Poems and lyrics from free-flowing Glasgow writer Jim Ferguson ― poet, novelist, dissenter, teacher and performer.
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