{"product_id":"linmill-stories-canongate-classics-0028-9780862412821","title":"Linmill Stories Canongate Classics 0028","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert McLellan was born in 1907 at the farm of Linmill in the Clyde  valley near Lanark. Young Robert was to spend some of his formative  boyhood days on holiday at this farm - run by his grandparents - and  these experiences formed the basis of the 'Linmill' stories. \u003cbr\u003eEducated  at Bearsdon Academy and Glasgow University, he dedicated himself to  writing Scots for the stage. His first one-act play, Jeddart Justice,  a comedy based on the old Border feuds of the 16th century, was  produced by the Curtain Theatre, Glasgow in 1933. His first full-length  work, Toom Byres (1936), took the same subject, followed a year  later by his best-known and most popular play, the 'historical comedy'  Jamie the Saxt. He married Kathleen Heys in 1938 and they moved to the  Isle of Arran. When war broke out McLellan joined the Royal Artillery,  and during the 1950s and 1960s he was active in local politics and as a  proponent of Scots in the League of Dramatists, the Society of Authors,  and the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406374969687,"sku":"9780862412821","price":9.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/linmill-stories-canongate-classics-0028-9780862412821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}