Results for "Cracknell, Linda"

Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, slee... Read More about Writing Landscape (In the Moment)

Past and present converge as Linda Cracknell doubles back to walk in the footsteps of others. Across Norway, Kenya, and the northerly islands of Skye in Scotland and Lindisfarne in England, Doubling Back traces the contours of history. Following paths long mythologized by writers and relatives gone ... Read More about Doubling Back: Paths Trodden in Memory

'The Searching Glance' is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland's leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse. Linda Cracknell's stories are multi-layered and brooding with longing and loss, allowing the reader a 'searching glanc... Read More about The Searching Glance

In 1952, Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through the Swiss Alps. It was the last walk he would ever take. Linda retraces that fateful journey 50 years later, following the trail of the man she barely knew. This collection of walking tales take their theme from that pilgrimage. The walks ... Read More about Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory

A beautifully written, haunting tale of motherhood, guilt, myth, and redemption set on the rugged coast at Scotland's furthest edge When Maggie Thame, a childless 40-something woman from Oxford, relocates to a remote village at Scotland's most northern edge, it's clear she's running away. But ... Read More about Call of the Undertow

This collection takes its title from Linda Cracknell's first short story, written in 1998, which won the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday award. The stories here begin with experiences of childhood and take the reader on a journey to old age.... Read More about Life Drawing