Donald S Murray
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"Full of memorable images and singing lines of prose." Sarah Waters on Donald S. Murray's previous work From the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestseller As the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable "unreliable biography" of serial swindler Karl Einarsson.As a child of the late nineteenth century in the North Atlantic's windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands, Karl Einarsson grows up believing he is superior to his peers, destined for a...
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A novel of the Iolaire disaster.
In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community.
Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the very last leg of their long journey home from war. For Tormod — a man unlike others, with artistry in his fingertips — the disaster would mark...
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A poisoned breeze blows across the waves...
Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis. Local villagers Jessie and Duncan encounter strange sights on the deserted beach nearby and suspect the worst. And one government scientist wrestles with his own inner anguish over the testing, even if he believes extreme deterrent weapons are needed. When...