Sunset Song - Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’

Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!'

Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the First World War leaves Chris and her community in tatters, she must draw strength from what she loves - and endure, like the land she loves so intensely.

Powerful and moving, Sunset Song is an inspirational celebration of the human spirit.

About the author

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.
Kapka Kassabova is the author of Street without a Name (2008), the unsentimental story of a Communist childhood which was shortlisted for the Prix Européen du Livre and the Dolman Travel Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, the Scottish Review of Books and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. Kassabova lives in the Scottish Highlands.

Product details

• Authors: Grassic Gibbon Lewis
• Assisted by: Ian Campbell (Foreword), Kassabova Kapka (Introduction)
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.04.2026
• EAN: 9781846977510
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-751-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / General, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, First World War, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, Adventure / action fiction, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Classic fiction: literary and general