Magnus Merriman is a 1934 comedy novel by the British writer Eric Linklater.Hart pp. 252–253 It portrays the adventures of an aspiring politician who marries and settles down on Orkney. It had a strong autobiographical element as Linklater had himself unsuccessfully stood in the 1933 East Fife by-election for the National Party of Scotland,Watson p. 377 Although Link later wrote an introduction to the book titled "Admonition" denying autobiographical intent.
References
Bibliography Hart, Francis Russell. The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark. Harvard University Press, 1978. Watson, Roderick. The Literature of Scotland. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2016.