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The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison's life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison.
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Naomi Mitchison
‘Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew on dust as the author tells of Pindar’s poetic adventure into Thessaly’…
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The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison’s life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison.
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An autobiographical volume of two books - ‘Other People’s Worlds. Impressions of Ghana ad Nigeria’ (1958) and ‘Mucking Around. Five Continents over Fifty Years’ (1981).
On February 24th, 1934 - shortly after the civil war in Austria and the defeat of the Socialists - Naomi Mitchison left England on a visit to Vienna in order…
Two short novels, each first published in 1991, and each prefaced by an introduction to ‘the history fiction game’ by the author.
"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…
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…
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…
Written as a story for young adults, this gentle, engaging tale of friendship across cultures was well received in both Britain and India on its first publication in 1959.
‘This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.’ Ian Rankin
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…
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…
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 book brings together the short stories from the two volumes African Heroes and Images of Africa.
A unique wartime diary, written for the mass-observation project, by the doyenne of Scottish literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker Naomi Mitchison. With a Foreword by Tessa Dunlop, TV presenter…
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Jenni Calder
Naomi Mitchison is often thought of as the doyenne of Scottish Literature. This is the definitive biography of the major novelist, feminist, socialist, and campaigner for sexual and other freedoms.
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Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew on dust as the author tells of Pindar’s poetic adventure into Thessaly’…
Rich and frank in passions, and rich, too, in the detail which helps to make feigned life seem real.‘ Times Literary Supplement
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…
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…
Moira Burgess
This groundbreaking book, an important contribution to Naomi Mitchison criticism,examines three novels,The Bull Calves (1947), The Big House (1950) and Lobsters on the Agenda (1952),and a selection of short stories…
Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church
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…
Naomi Mitchison’s 1947 novel about events two hundred years earlier - in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 - as a family, based on her own ancestors, gathers…
Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father’s celebratory biography. She was an educated princess in eleventh-century Constantinople, the daughter of the Emperor Alexius…
Retells in realistic terms and colloquial dialogue the story of the passion and death of Jesus, hour by hour, as it unfolds over the twenty-four hours of Good Friday.
Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare’s tale of Mark Antony’s fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison’s ‘Cleopatra’s People’ starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of…
The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here the author effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and…
Stories, poems and songs - including the classic ‘Five Men and a Swan’ - from Mitchison’s Carradale years.
A highly devotional spiritual book instructing readers in great detail about the transcendence of advanced, as well as lower levels of consciousness. Contains prophecies and foresights about the future of…
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…
Mitchison’s first novel, published in 1923, five years after the end of World War I. It is about wars, but historic ones - Julius Caesar’s bloody and gradual conquest of…
A precise, vivid picture of the people and manners of a privileged Edwardian childhood.
Naomi Mitchison began her novel-writing career in the 1920s, with historical fictions set in the Ancient world, in Roman and Greek civilisations, and soon won a high reputation world-wide. But…
Collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads.
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…
Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and in particular the long antagonism or rivalry of Athens and Sparta. In this, her second novel, she investigates the two city…
Sixty years after her first novel, in the same year as the first genetically modified plant, Mitchison imagines a future with GM crops as a political reality.
Louisa Kathleen Haldane
Louisa ‘Maya’ Haldane was the widow of physiologist John Scott Haldane, and the mother of J. B. S. Haldane and Naomi Mitchison. In these memoirs she gives a remarkably detailed…
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A portrait of the man whom Nelson Mandela was to describe as one of the ‘bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known’.
Fact and fiction mix in this telling of the history of Orkney and its people from the earliest times to the book’s first publication in the late twentieth century.
