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His Bloody Project
His Bloody Project
hardback
Published:
3 November, 2016
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2016,Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2016
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910192665 |
| ISBN10 | 191019266X |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Saraband |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | International ed. |
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. *
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Author's Bio
Born in Kilmarnock, Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world. He lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature. After teaching English overseas and working as a researcher in the television industry, he won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and now writes full-time. He is best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted second novel, His Bloody Project, and his fourth novel, Case Study, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Graeme is also the author of a trilogy of French-set detective novels: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014), The Accident on the A35 (2017), and A Case of Matricide (2024).