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Scabbit Isle
A powerful and thought-provoking novel from a promising new writer.
The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been built. Sam learns that centuries before, this was the place to which plague victims were banished -- Scabbit Isle. Sam unearth’s Janet’s history and finds out that she was banished to Scabbit Isle by her cruel father, where she continues to suffer without hope. Can Sam summon up the courage to face the terrors of Scabbit Isle and, like Orpheus, venture into the underworld to bring Janet peace?
The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been built. Sam learns that centuries before, this was the place to which plague victims were banished -- Scabbit Isle. Sam unearth’s Janet’s history and finds out that she was banished to Scabbit Isle by her cruel father, where she continues to suffer without hope. Can Sam summon up the courage to face the terrors of Scabbit Isle and, like Orpheus, venture into the underworld to bring Janet peace?
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 2003
About the author
Tom Pow
50 books4 followersTom Pow is a Scottish poet, travel writer and teacher. He was born in Edinburgh in 1950 and educated at the Royal High School.
Several of his collections have won awards and three of his poetry collections have been short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year. Most recently, Dear Alice – Narratives of Madness (Salt Publishing) won the poetry category in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust’s Scottish Book Awards in 2009. He has also written young adult novels, picture books, radio plays and a travel book about Peru. In the Becoming, Selected and New Poems was published by Polygon in June 2009.
He has held various writing posts, including that of Scottish/Canadian Writing Fellow, based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and Virtual Writer in Residence (Scotland’s first) for the Scottish Library Association’s Scottish Writers Project. He was the first ever Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival from 2001 to 2003.
From 2000 to 2009, he worked for the University of Glasgow in Dumfries, latterly as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Storytelling.
He is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University Dumfries and a part-time lecturer on Lancaster University’s distance learning Masters in Creative Writing.
Several of his collections have won awards and three of his poetry collections have been short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year. Most recently, Dear Alice – Narratives of Madness (Salt Publishing) won the poetry category in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust’s Scottish Book Awards in 2009. He has also written young adult novels, picture books, radio plays and a travel book about Peru. In the Becoming, Selected and New Poems was published by Polygon in June 2009.
He has held various writing posts, including that of Scottish/Canadian Writing Fellow, based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and Virtual Writer in Residence (Scotland’s first) for the Scottish Library Association’s Scottish Writers Project. He was the first ever Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival from 2001 to 2003.
From 2000 to 2009, he worked for the University of Glasgow in Dumfries, latterly as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Storytelling.
He is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University Dumfries and a part-time lecturer on Lancaster University’s distance learning Masters in Creative Writing.
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May 13, 2013
Good storyline good characterization with a good ending enjoyable read.
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