EAN: 9780241401996

NEWS OF THE DEAD - JAMES ROBERTSON GEBUNDEN

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 'To tell the story of a country or
a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking  but the story of a quiet  unnoticed
place where there are few people  fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such
as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece together. The hazier everything becomes  the
more whatever facts there are become entangled with myth and legend. . .' Deep in the mountains
of north-east Scotland lies Glen Conach  a place of secrets and memories  fable and history. In
particular  it holds the stories of three different eras  separated by centuries yet linked by
location  by an ancient manuscript and by echoes that travel across time. In ancient Pictland 
the Christian hermit Conach contemplates God and nature  performs miracles and prepares himself
for sacrifice. Long after his death  legends about him are set down by an unknown hand in the
Book of Conach. Generations later  in the early nineteenth century  self-promoting antiquarian
Charles Kirkliston Gibb is drawn to the Glen  and into the big house at the heart of its
fragile community. In the present day  young Lachie whispers to Maja of a ghost he thinks he
has seen. Reflecting on her long life  Maja believes him  for she is haunted by ghosts of her
own. News of the Dead is a captivating exploration of refuge  retreat and the reception of
strangers. It measures the space between the stories people tell of themselves - what they
forget and what they invent - and the stories through which they may  or may not  be
remembered.

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