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Naming the bones

Louise Welsh

2010389 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Canongate · 389 pages · ENGISBN 9781847672551
  • 2010Windsor · 411 pages · ENGISBN 9781408487181
  • 2011Felony & Mayhem Press · ENGISBN 9781934609705

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.

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