The Cone-Gatherers

Author: Robin Jenkins

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 March 2012 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback | 240 pages
193 x 123 x 15mm | 184g

In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation, in the depths of the wood, Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers.

Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful and unforgettable, Robin Jenkins' masterpiece is a haunting story of love and violence, and an investigation of class-conflict, war and envy.