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SOME SECRETS ARE BEST LEFT BURIED - Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world away, and yet it is because of the mysterious writer, Archie Lunan, dead for thirty years, that Murray now finds himself scrabbling in the dirt on the remote island of Lismore. Loaded with Welsh's trademark wit, insight and gothic charisma, this adventure novel weaves the lives of Murray and Archie together in a tale of literature, obsession and dark magic.
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Louise Welsh is the bestselling author of The Cutting Room, Tamburlaine Must Die and The Bullet Trick. She was chosen as one of Britain's Best First Novelists of 2002 by the Guardian. Her awards include the Crime Writers' Association Creasey Dagger and the Saltire First Book Award. She lives in Glasgow.
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University of Glasgow English professor Murray Watson has attained the year-long sabbatical he always wanted, during which he can write a biography of little-known poet Archie Lunan, who died three decades before in a sailing accident. But as he doggedly researches Archie and learns little, he comes to realize that his own life is also amounting to very little. Hes estranged from his only family, his brother. Hes spending too much time in Glasgows dingiest pubs. Rachel, his department chairs wife, has ended their affair. And Archie, beyond being a manic drunk, remains a cipher. So Murray travels to Lismore, the island where Archie met his end. There, he finds some answers, at least about Archies brief life. Three-fourths of the book is an insightful send-up of academia and professors who discover their work isnt a substitute for a life. Characters are vividly drawn, Welshs portrait of a shabby Glasgow pub is exquisite, and her Lismore is wonderfully bleak and forbidding. The concluding lurch into Gothic horror, however, seems at odds with the rest of the book. --Thomas Gaughan
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847672558
- ISBN 13 9781847672551
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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