Spring 2024 Title Spotlight
One of our forthcoming Spring 2024 titles is An Cat Coigreach [The Foreign Cat]. First-time author June Ghreumach lives on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland with her husband, her youngest son and a crazy collie dog, and works as a Gaelic Early Years Officer with Comunn nam Pàrant. Her previous work as a climate scientist brought her to Canada and from there to Switzerland. She was born and raised in Glasgow and has family links to the Isle of Skye. June learnt Gaelic as an adult and writes in both Gaelic and English.
Bradan Press is delighted to be publishing An Cat Coigreach at the end of April 2024. Previously the book’s manuscript won the award for Làmh-sgìobhainn Neo-fhoillsichte as Fheàrr do Chloinn/Òigridh (Best Unpublished Manuscript for Children/Young People) in the Duaisean Litreachais / Gaelic Literature Awards 2022. In 2019, June Ghreumach won the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Gaelic Children’s Fiction.
An Cat Coigreach Cover
Pangur is a black cat living happily with his family in Bern, a beautiful city in Switzerland – until they decide to return to Scotland. Pangur doesn’t believe in the land of fairies, and he doesn’t believe in Scotland either! But now he is a foreign cat in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, and the other cats are not being kind to him. Pangur decides to leave the island and return to Bern. Surely his family will return too when the autumn storms start…won’t they? Follow Pangur’s adventures across the country, escaping from one danger after the next, until he learns the importance of friends and family.
’S e cat dubh a th’ ann am Pangur agus tha e a’ fuireach gu dòigheil leis a theaghlach ann am Bern, baile brèagha san Eilbhis – gus an latha a tha iad a’ cur romhpa tilleadh a dh’Alba. Chan eil Pangur a’ creidsinn ann an tìr nan sìthichean agus chan eil e a’ creidsinn ann an Alba nas motha! Ach a-nis tha e na na chat coigreach ann an Steòrnabhagh, Eilean Leòdhais, agus chan eil na cait eile coibhneil ris idir. Tha Pangur a’ cur roimhe gum fàg e an eilean agus gun till e gu Bern. Agus tillidh a theaghlach cuideachd nuair a thig na stoirmean as t-fhoghar … nach till? Leanaibh na cuairtean-dànach Phangur thar na dùthcha, a’ teicheadh bho chunnart an dèidh cunnart, gus an ionnsaich e cho cudromach ’s a tha càirdean agus teaghlach.
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