His Bloody Project: documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae : a novel

His Bloody Project: documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae : a novel

by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Author)

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. WINNER of the SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK of the YEAR 2016. The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.

$12.38

Quantity

20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Unabridged::International Edition
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Contraband
Published: 05 Nov 2015

ISBN 10: 1910192147
ISBN 13: 9781910192146

Media Reviews
Spellbinding ... Riveting, dark and ingeniously constructed. - Edmund Gordon, Sunday Times. The book's pretence at veracity, as well as being a literary jeux d'esprit, brings an extraordinary historical period into focus, while the multiple unreliable perspectives are designed to keep the audience wondering, throughout the novel and beyond. This is a fiendishly readable tale that richly deserves the wider attention the Booker has brought it. - Justine Jordan, The Guardian. An astonishing piece of writing... a voice that sounds startlingly authentic. - Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph. Gripping, blackly playful and intelligent, it deserves a space on the shortlist. It's one of the few that may set the heather - and imagination - ablaze. - Robbie Millen, The Times. Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project is a gripping crime story, a deeply imagined historical novel, and gloriously written - all in one tour-de-force of a book. Stevensonian - that's the highest praise I can give. - Chris Dolan, Book of the Year, The Herald. The Man Booker judges got it right: this really is one of the most convincing and engrossing novels of the year. - David Robinson, The Scotsman. A real box of tricks... a truly ingenious thriller as confusingly multilayered as an Escher staircase. Jake Kerridge,Express. A historical revenge tragedy and courtroom drama... [are] at the heart of this masterful psychological thriller. Ian Stephen Masterful, clever and playful. It is every inch the riveting second novel I had hoped for. Louise Hutcheson, A Novel Bookblog.
Author Bio
Graeme Macrae Burnet is one of Scotland's brightest literary talents. Born and brought up in Kilmarnock, he spent some years working as an English teacher in Prague, Bordeaux, Porto and London, before returning to Glasgow and working for eight years for various independent television companies. He has degrees in English Literature and International Security Studies from Glasgow and St Andrews universities respectively. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (Contraband, 2014), received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust, was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award and was a minor cult hit. Set in small-town France, it is a compelling psychological portrayal of a peculiar outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination. His second novel, His Bloody Project, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. He is currently working on another novel featuring Georges Gorski, the haunted detective in The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau.