An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul

The Scotsman’s 20 Scottish Books Everyone Should Read (from 2005. I suppose that is a bullet I must bite sometime though. I have seen the film of Trainspotting, which did not encourage me to read the book. Le An Taigh-Samhraidh (Clr, 8.99), an treas nobhail Ghidhlig aige do dh'inbhich, saoilidh mi gun tinig an sgrobhadh aig Aonghas Pdraig Caimbeul gu re gu dearbh, neartan cumhachdach An Oidhche mus do Shel Sinn ann neo s, cha chreid mi nach e An Taigh-Samhraidh an leabhar as fherr a sgrobh e.Tha e a' tiseachadh gu math 's. I feel a sense of satisfaction at not only having tracked down these books but finally reading them. Since it was written in Gaelic I’ve also not read An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn ( The Night Before We Sailed) by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul (Angus Peter Campbell.) The only exceptions are The Wind in the Willows (which I believe I did read as a child but can’t remember actually doing so,) the J K Rowling Harry Potter book (which I won’t be reading) and Trainspotting, which along with Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song has appeared on all the lists of Scottish books* which I have covered over the past few years. That makes it just about all of the fiction on that list that I have now read, plus the non-fiction The Golden Bough Since it was written in Gaelic I’ve also not read An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn ( The Night Before We Sailed) by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul (Angus Peter Campbell.) I feel a sense of satisfaction at not only having tracked down these books but finally reading them. However, the focal character befriends a local community and makes himself an integral part of their lives.

When the landlord imprisons him on an island, it at first appears he has met his match. Two posts ago I listed my review of Robert Alan Jamieson’s A Day at the Office, one of the 100 Best Scottish books. The main character effectively challenges the landlord to devise a prison he cannot escape.

An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul