Ian Macpherson (1905–1944) was a Scottish writer from Leslie Place, Forres, Moray, Scotland.[1] He graduated from Aberdeen University in 1928 with a first-class honours degree in English. His first novel, Shepherds Calendar, was published in 1931. The book tells of a young man's growth to maturity in a farming community dominated by hard toil and the influence of the seasons.[2]

Wild Harbour tells of the world destroyed by a future war, forebodings of which were already discernible in Europe.[3] Macpherson died in a motorcycle accident in 1944.

Novels

• Shepherds' Calendar (1931), ISBN 9780862280635
• Land of Our Fathers (1933)
• Pride in the Valley (1936), ASIN B000ZLQB7K
• Wild Harbour (1936), ISBN 9780862412340[4]

Further reading

Gifford, Douglas (1982), In Search of the Scottish Renaissance: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction, in Cencrastus No. 9, Summer 1982, pp. 26 – 30, ISSN 0264-0856

References

• Canongate Books
• 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.

External links

• The Literature of Scotland @ Google Books