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Grimoire (Hardcover)
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Grimoire (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R352
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Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 ‘I’ve long admired
Robin Robertson’s narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you
will love this book.’ Val McDermid The new book from the author
of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of
both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. 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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