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Yazan: Graeme Macrae Burnet
Seslendiren: Robin Laing
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 Summer 1857. Angus MacPhee returns from a fortnight's work as a servant at a house a few miles away. He seems to have lost his mind. His family are forced to keep him shackled to his bed. When he appears to have come to his senses he is allowed to go at large, but his erratic behaviour gives rise to suggestions that he should be confined in an asylum. Neither the family nor the local community are able to meet the required costs.

Liniclate, 1862. Malcolm MacPhee is living alone in the house where his brother's madness led to horrifying ends. His only contact with the outside world are a neighbour and the local priest. Isolated, ostracised by the small community, Malcolm is haunted by visions of his family's fate. Is he afflicted by the same madness? Worse, there are questions about his sister, Marion. Malcolm says she left long ago with their brother John, but no one saw her board the ship from Lochmaddy. Has something more sinister occurred?

In Benbecula, Booker-nominated author Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to tell, for the first time, the story of the MacPhee family. Drawing on letters, asylum records, postmortem reports, and witness statements, Burnet constructs a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self.©2025 Graeme Macrae Burnet (P)2025 W F Howes LTD Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Historical Psychological Thriller & Suspense Duygusal olarak çekici
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A fascinating glimpse back in time. The story is captures the nature and daily lives of the highland farming poor but with dark humour and flashes of wit. The narration was excellent.

Evocative of a bygone era

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Enjoy this although there are so many echoes of His Bloody Project that you might feel your reading a condensed version of it.

Similar to his other books

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Recycled true crime, packaged as novella (again). There must come a limit to this kind of thing, surely? Well enough written but lacking substance in exactly the same way as his earlier tale (His Bloodly Project). Burnet once again misses the point of Foucault’s original text, ‘I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother’. I’d rather have something from the mind of the author than this processed mummery. It really isn’t good enough to crib tales from the police courts and pass them off as literature. The epilogue (apology) would be better omitted.

His Bloody Project (again).

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Incredible retelling of a historical tale from the Western Isles in Scotland. I loved McRaes fictional tale His Bloody Project, his return to 1800s village life in Scotland was an immediate buy and I listened to it over the next two evenings.

Short, not sweet.

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Burnet is best-known for another work of historical fiction, His Bloody Project, and Benbecula is on similar terrain but also has some similarities with another of his novels, Case Study, inspired by the story of the psychiatrist RD Laing. Set in the middle of the 19th century, the narrator is one Malcolm MacPhee, the last of his family to be living on the titular island. He is one of four siblings: a younger brother and sister have left, and another brother, Angus, killed their parents and aunt. Theirs has been a life of strenuous labour and little remuneration, mostly collecting seaware and subsistence farming. It reminded me a little of The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - another dark (and brilliant) tale set on a Scottish island. The narration fits the tone of the story well. Malcolm is clearly unravelling himself - making him something of an unreliable storyteller. There’s a fairly lengthy, absorbing afterword, which I had assumed was fictional, in keeping with the author’s penchant for postmodern game-playing (and there is a character here who also appears in His Bloody Project), but in fact it’s non-fiction - so Burnet’s novel, or novella, is a fictionalisation of a grisly, real-life tale. Burnet fans will need no persuasion to give Benbecula a try, but those who do should hesitate no longer - listen now!

His Bloodier Project

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