His Bloody Project

Burnet, Graeme Macrae

ISBN 10: 191019266X / ISBN 13: 9781910192665

Published by Contraband,, 2016

About this Item

Hardback. First edition, first printing with complete numberline of the first hardback edition. A short print run of paperbacks had been printed prior this edition. No jacket as issued. Cover design is by Scott Smyth. Novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prise, this is a fictional version of a true crime work. A little rubbed to corner sand spine ends. Very clean, tight and square. Very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 25175

Bibliographic Details

• Title: His Bloody Project
• Publisher: Contraband,
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 191019266X
• ISBN 13: 9781910192665
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good copy

About this title

Synopsis

A BBC Radio 4 Book Club pick

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.

About the Author

Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world as a double Booker Prize nominee. His dazzling second novel, <em >His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2016, and in 2022 his 'brilliant, bamboozling' (<em >Telegraph) fourth novel,<em > Case Study, appeared on the Booker longlist. Born in Kilmarnock, he lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature. After teaching English overseas and working as a researcher in the television industry, Graeme won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013, and he now writes full-time. Graeme is also the author of two French-set novels inspired by Georges Simenon and featuring Gorski, a detective: <em >The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014) and <em >The Accident on the A35 (2017), with a third Gorski novel set to appear soon. All his novels are published in the UK by independent press Saraband.