Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 From the author of The
Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the
Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. 'I've long admired
Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you
will love this book.' Val McDermid Like some lost chapters from the
Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people
caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence,
madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies,
changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology,
narrated by a doomed shape-changer - a man, beast or god. A
grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits. Here, Robin Robertson
and his brother Tim Robertson - whose accompanying images are as
unforgettable as cave-paintings - raise strange new forms which
speak not only of the potency of our myths and superstitions, but
how they were used to balance and explain the world and its
predicaments. From one of our most powerful lyric poets, this is a
book of curses and visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome,
characters on the cusp of their transformation - whether women
seeking revenge or saving their broken children, or men trying to
save themselves. Haunting and elemental, Grimoire is full of the
same charged beauty as the Scottish landscape - a beauty that can
switch, with a mere change in the weather, to hostility and terror.
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