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Christopher Rush


Scotland (b.1944)

Christopher Rush was born in St Monans and taught literature for thirty years a teacher of literature in Edinburgh. His books include A Twelvemonth and a Day and the highly acclaimed To Travel Hopefully. A Twelvemonth and a Day served as inspiration for the film Venus Peter, released in 1989. The story was also reworked by Rush in a simplified version in 1992 as a children's picture book, Venus Peter Saves the Whale, illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick, which won the Friends of the Earth 1993 Earthworm Award for the book published that year that would most help children to enjoy and care for the Earth.
 
 
Novels
   A Twelve-month and a Day (1985)
   Last Lesson of the Afternoon (1994)
   Will (2007)
   Penelope's Web (2015)
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Collections
   Peace Comes Dropping Slow (1983)
   A Resurrection of a Kind (poems) (1984)
   Two Christmas Stories (1988)
   Into the Ebb (1989)
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