Andrew Greig

(born September 1951 - ) – Bannockburn, Stirlingshire

Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig was born in Bannockburn, although raised in the Fife town of Anstruther. Equally at home with poetry – his first book was the poetry collection White Boats – and literary fiction – In Another Light won the Saltire Society prize in 2004. But he has also had success with mountaineering titles, like Summit Fever and the mountain poetry collections Men on Ice and Surviving Passages, and, in 1996, The Return of John McNab was short listed for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.

Greig now lives in Orkney and Sheffield.

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    Electric Brae: A Modern Romance - Paperback
    Electric Brae deals with passionate love, obsession, loyalty and betrayal. It is about Scotland now and then, whisky and cocaine, rhythm and blues, friends and lovers. Like the Electric Brae itself, it quietly subverts our assumptions.
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    In the early 1930s, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony. 70 years later forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, while recuperating on Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew - his father.
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    Kingdoms Of Experience: Everest, The Unclimbed Ridge - Paperback
    In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge. The last attempt had ended in failure and two deaths. Here, Greig describes the assault on the peak and the complex relationships among the team of nineteen very different personalities.
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    Preferred Lies: A Journey To The Heart Of Golf - Paperback
    Andrew Greig grew up on the east coast of Scotland, where playing golf is as natural as breathing. He has played on the Old Course at St Andrews as well as on the miners' courses of Yorkshire. He writes about the different cultural manifestations of the game, the history, the geography, and the different social meanings.
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    The Return of John Macnab is an adventure, a poacher's handbook, a romance and a moving story of loss and renewal with comic and political elements.
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    'Romanno Bridge' is a new adventure from the acclaimed novelist and poet Andrew Greig. The hunt for the crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, Jacob's Pillow, the Stone of Scone - whatever it is, it is worth enough to make life cheap for some and dear for others - has begun.
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    'Summit Fever' offers a full account of the successful ascent of the Mustagh Tower in 1984 by previously little-known British climbers, and also a description of the author's own feelings and experiences as a novice climber on a Himalayan expedition.
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    That Summer - Paperback
    That Summer presents a romance set against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. A young pilot, Len Westbourne, falls for Stella Gardam, a radio operator. Both know their time together may be short.
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    This Life, This Life: New & Selected Poems 1970-2006 - Paperback
    This selection covers 35 years of the author's poetry through childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures, illness and recovery, increased awareness of morality and the preciousness of the moments left.
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    An unknown woman takes possession of an empty cottage in the Borders, claiming she is the daughter of the couple who died there violently 20 years ago. Her tale interweaves with an ancient Border ballad of adultery, betrayal and murder.

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