Deirdre Chapman Badlands review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman over de Schotse Hooglanden. Op 6 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Vagabond Voices de roman van Deirdre Chapman de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Deirdre Chapman Badlands review recensie
- “Badlands is a rollercoaster of a yarn in the tradition of John Buchan, with a fast-paced plot full of deceptions, dangers, murders, bluffs and blurred identities, and power games being played out against a backdrop of Highland landscapes and castles and luxurious Vienna apartments. But Deirdre Chapman uses the events of this adventure story to make some serious points about contemporary politics and society, and how historic secrets, apparently long forgotten, can raise their heads and cause fresh mayhem decades later.” (James Robertson)
Badlands
- Auteur: Deirdre Chapman (Schotland)
- Soort boek: Schotse roman, thriller
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vagabond Voices
- Verschijnt: 6 oktober 2025
- Omvang: 266 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: £ 12.50
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Flaptekst van de roman van Deidre Chapman over de Schotse Hooglanden
Badlands opens with the horror of a man gradually waking to find himself fully and sharply dressed on a hotel bed in the Highlands with no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he is not alone, a secondary horror which drives him to seek the help of a girl in a pub before he takes off on a flight through the landscape in search of answers and an identity.
The plot is sustained by these two characters, the amnesiac man stumbling around the countryside and the girl in the pub, herself a stranger on a quest to unlock family secrets that are rooted in Vienna. Their paths cross and divide, stirring up fresh revelations that heighten the tension on the road to resolution.
Deirdre Chapman was born in Carnoustie, Scotland and was brought up there. She worked as a features writer for newspapers in Glasgow and London, becoming well known as a journalist. She was also highly regarded as a short story writer. She married fellow journalist Michael Grieve (1932-1995), whose parents were Valda Trevlyn Grieve and the poet Hugh MacDiarmid (pseudonym of Christopher Grieve). She brought up three sons; all the while, generously and patiently responding to the many approaches from writers and artists working with Hugh MacDiarmid’s legacy to the nation and the world. In recent years she has completed two novels. The first one The Noontide Sun was published in 2014.