Everyone knows the story of Coinneach Odhar - or do they? Douglas Thompson revisits this story and gives it a fresh twist. The author skilfully blends fact, period detail and well-known legend with fiction, creating a well-written historical novel that will keep you turning the pages from start to finish.

Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich
University of Glasgow

Published
July 2014
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Douglas Thompson

Douglas Thompson’s short stories have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, most recently Albedo One, Ambit, Postscripts, and New Writing Scotland. He won the Grolsch/Herald Question of Style Award in 1989 and second prize in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition in 2007. His first book, Ultrameta, was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2009, nominated for the Edge Hill Prize, and shortlisted for the BFS Best Newcomer Award, and since then he has published four subsequent novels, Sylvow (Eibonvale, 2010), Apoidea (The Exaggerated Press, 2011), Mechagnosis (Dog Horn, 2012), Entanglement (Elsewhen Press, 2012) and has two…