Benbecula Signed Edition

'An elegant, eerie volume... Although ostensibly a fictionalisation of a real-life triple murder on the titular island, Benbecula is really a book about how precarious the idea of the self is'

-- Stuart Kelly * The Scotman *

'Graeme Macrae Burnet's recreation of a macabre incident in 19th-century Hebridean history is unrelentingly disturbing and utterly gripping'

-- James Robertson

'Benbecula is a powerful novel, more concise than his Booker-shortlisted His Bloody Project which was set in Applecross on Scotland’s west coast. Both books share, however, a sense of how landscape and isolation sometimes affect people in small communities'

-- Donald Murray * Stornoway Gazette *

'A gripping meditation on madness and identity, on what it is to know oneself, and to know anything at all... Psychological thrillers have rarely been so poetically dark and enthralling. A remarkable work of psychological intrigue and dark wit'

-- Joanne Owen * LoveReading *

'The novel’s devilish appeal lies in the intoxicated and isolated Malcolm’s narration from within the confines of his family’s “skullhouse,” ... The author once again proves his mastery of moody psychological thrillers'

* Publishers Weekly *

'tells the true story of a long-ago murder, but it is the slow and subtle reveal of the narrator’s troubled mind that lingers long after the horror of the brutal crime begins to fade. Modern Scottish literary fiction at its finest'

* Fiction F