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Donald S. Murray – The Loch of the Bees

Donald S. Murray The Loch of the Bees review and information novel by the Sottish author about the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries. Saraband will publish the Donald S. Murray novel on March 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Donald S. Murray The Loch of the Bees

The Loch of the Bees

  • Author: Donald S. Murray (Scotland)
  • Book type: Scottish novel, historical novel
  • Publisher: Saraband
  • To be released: March 12, 2026
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 10.99
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Blurb of the Donald S. Murray novel about the Hebrides

This evocative and deeply original work reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day. Through interlinked stories layered like blankets of peat, the novel reveals how fragments of earlier lives – a sword hidden by a Viking raider, a rosary left behind by a troubled priest – are preserved, buried, and later resurface.

As the novel unfolds, past loves, betrayals, struggles and losses echo through the lives of modern islanders, shaped by the shadows of the Clearances and devastating wars. Again and again, characters are drawn back to a beehive-shaped stone shelter on a tiny island at the edge of the Loch of the Bees, a place of refuge, memory and quiet renewal.

Donald S. Murray was born in 1956. He is a Scottish writer and poet and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature who has won the Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize (2012, for As the Women Lay Dreaming,) and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award (2021), among many awards for his historical fiction, creative non-fiction and poems. His critically acclaimed books bring to life the culture and nature of the Scottish islands, and he appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland and as a live performer.

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Faeröer, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

Donald S. Murray – The Call of the Cormorant

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant Faeröer roman recensie en informatie over de inhoud. Op 11 april 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Sarabant de nieuwe roman van de Britse schrijver Donals S. Murray die zich op Faeröer afspeelt. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de The Call of the Cormorant. Het boek is geschreven door Donald S. Murray. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze Faeröerroman, geschreven door de Engelse schrijver Donald S. Murray.

Donald S. Murray The Call of the Cormorant Faeröer roman

The Call of the Cormorant

  • Schrijver: Donald S. Murray (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Faeröer roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Saraband
  • Verschijnt: 11 april 2023
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback

Recensie en waardering van de roman

  • “A powerful novel… A poignant exploration of love, loss and survivor’s guilt.” (Sunday Times)
  • “A moving portrait of a place and its people … a quiet, sad but brilliant novel.” (Times, Book of the Month)
    “Murray is an evocative painter of landscapes and a deeply sympathetic writer… a space for forgotten voices to sound, bearing witness not just to this tragedy, but to the terrible cost of World War I itself.” (Daily Mail)

Flaptekst van de Faeröer roman van Donald S. Murray

From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ‘unreliable biography’ of Karl Kjerúlf Einarsson: an artist and an adventurer, a charlatan and a swindler, forever in search of Atlantis.

As a child in the windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands in the late nineteenth century, Karl Einarsson believes he is special, destined for a life of art and adventure. As soon as he can, he sets out for Copenhagen and beyond, styling himself as the Count of St. Kilda. He’s an observer and citizen of nowhere, a serial swindler of aristocrats and Nazis, fishermen and fops.

But when his adventures find him in 1930s Berlin, he is forced for the first time to reckon with something much bigger than himself. As the Nazis rise to power around him, his wilful ignorance becomes unwitting complicity, even betrayal.

Based on a true story, this is a fantastical tale of island life, of those who leave and those who stay behind, and the many dangers of delusions and false identities.

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