He has degrees in English Literature and International Security Studies from Glasgow and St Andrews universities respectively. Born and brought up in Kilmarnock, he spent some years working as an English teacher in Prague, Bordeaux, Porto and London, before returning to Glasgow and working for eight years for various independent television companies. Graeme is one of Scotland’s brightest literary talents. Awards-Scottish Trust New Writer's Award Shortlist, Man Booker Award.Education-B.A., Glasgow University M.A., St Andrews University.
His Bloody Project is a deeply imagined crime novel that is both thrilling and luridly entertaining from an exceptional new voice. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative-centered around an unreliable narrator-will keep the reader guessing to the very end. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked.Ĭhief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime? There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macraeįinalist, 2016 Man Booker Prize (Shortlist)Ī brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae.
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