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�The best-kept secret in modern British literature.� Andrew Marr A haunting story of violence and love. Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers � two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper. Set during the Second World War, Robin Jenkins� greatest novel is an immensely powerful examination of good and evil, and mankind�s propensity for both. Removed from the destruction and bloodshed of the war, the brothers� oblivious happiness becomes increasingly fragile as darker forces close in around them. Suspenseful, dark and unforgettable, The Cone-Gatherers is a towering work of fiction, a masterpiece of modern Scottish literature. �Let me alert everyone to the best-kept secret in modern British literature. If you love the novel; if you are interested in books that are humane and wise, not slick and cynical; then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins.� Andrew Marr �A masterpiece of concision and terrible pathos.� Isobel Murray �Like all the great masters, his skill is lightly worn, his sentences singing with what he does not say.� The Times �Few novels in our heritage have the bell-like harmonies of this book . . . it has a strange, haunting poetic quality, conjuring from a few props a fable of eternal significance.� Iain Crichton Smith