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Double Heider - Twa
Novellas in Scots
Loon by Sheena Blackhall
The Girnin Gates by Hamish MacDonald
Price: £6.99
Online Price: £5.24
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Double Heider
Ye're
bananas, ye auld bam ye! Ye're a psycho!
The fermer startit taewards um, goin:
Whit hiv ye gote in that bag?
But Mr Gobbs pit wan fit in front ae issel, an drew back ees right
errum in a threat an goes:
You touch this bag an Ah'll pan yer melt, ya bam.
Anen the fermer breenged at me, startit wrestlin the haversack frae ma
back, an ees goin:
Whit huv yez got in this wan, ya shower a thievin
Glesga minks?
An we heaved to an fro, this way an that, anen a strap pullt loose
through a buckle an Henderson went fleein backwards landin on ees
hin-end in the howlin keechy glaur.
Double Heider comprises two superb novellas for the price of one.
Hamish MacDonald's hyper-gallus history of Gilbert McGlinchy in The
Girnin Gates and Sheena Blackhall's narrative of young Donnie Paterson's
life in Loon are a winning combination. Two vibrant hard hitting
stories, The Girnin Gates and Loon are written in two different
dialects of Scots Glaswegian and Doric by two of Scotland's finest
writers. And Double Heider, a Scottish publishing first, demonstrates
clearly that in language and in society there is more that unites us
than divides us.
Itchy Coo recommends this book for S3 S6/ages 13 18.
5 14 Curriculum: Reading, Dialect, KAL.
If you like Double Heider, you should get your heid roon The Smoky Smirr o Rain. Read
more stories by Hamish MacDonald and Sheena Blackhall in Gaberlunzie Joe's Pure Ghosters.
Price: £6.99
Online Price: £5.24
ISBN: 1 902927 72 9
Extent: 176 pages
Format: 198 x 129mm, paperback
Age: 13+
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