Grimoire av Robin Robertson

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<p><b>Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020</b><br><br><b>From the author of <i>The Long Take</i>, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.</b><br><br><b>‘I’ve long admired Robin Robertson’s narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you will love this book.’ Val McDermid</b><br><br>Like some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, <i>Grimoire </i>tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology, narrated by a doomed shape-changer – a man, beast or god.<br><br>A grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits. Here, Robin Robertson and his brother Tim Robertson – whose accompanying images are as unforge