The Scottish Borderlands, 1590s. Harry Langton is called back to the country of his childhood to aid an old friend, Adam Fleming, who has fallen for Helen of Annandale and, in turn, fallen foul of her rival. In a land where minor lairds vie for power and blood feuds are settled by the sword, Fleming faces a battle to win Helen's hand. Entrusted as guard to the lovers' secret trysts, Langton is thrust into the middle of a dangerous triangle, and discovers Helen is not so chaste as she is fair. But Langton has his own secrets to keep - and other friends to serve. Someone has noticed his connections, and recruited him in their bid to control the hierarchy of the Border families...

Product Description: This is a book of awakenings - to loss and renewal, to present and past and place. To dayliness, mortality, and marriage. Playful or serious, colloquial or formal, they speak directly of life lived. Celebratory or elegiac, whether set in Orkney, Spain, coastal Fife, or Edinburgh, Andrew Greig's poems are acts of attention, when the mind wakes up and the world snaps into focus...read more

A memoir of recovery by a Scottish novelist, poet, and golfer describes how he nearly lost his life before a last-ditch operation, his inspiration to resume playing golf after a more than three-decade hiatus, and his visits to renowned courses on the Orkney Islands and St. Andrews. 15,000 first printing.

What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures, illness and recovery, and increased awareness of mortality and the preciousness of the moments left.

Forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, recuperating from illness on the wild isolated island of Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew: his father, the respectable Doctor Alexander Mackay, now years dead after a long and blameless career. What he discovers astonishes him, and begins to shed light on his own existence.

In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge. In this book, Greig chronicles not only the assault on the peak, but also the complex inter-relationships of 19 very different individuals living together, yet each of them very much alone.

Set in the England during the Battle of Britain in 1940, this moving story of love and war focuses on the friendship between Tadeusz, a Polish pilot, and Len, an R.A.F. sergeant who falls in love with an enticing WAAF. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: Following his near-death from an acute brain illness, Andrew Greig has come back with a vital, life-affirming book of poems. Into You celebrates the joy of living every moment, heightened by a visceral sense of transience and mortality...read more

When some friends decide to revive the challenge of the legendary poacher John MacNab, they plan for everything - except a young woman with a past and time on her hands. Set in the Scottish hills, this is an adventure, a poacher's handbook, a romance and a moving story of loss and renewal.

Product Description: This novel of obsession, passion and death occupies the borderlands between the supernatural novels of Scott, Hogg and Stevenson, and the psychological novels of Rendall and Highsmith. An unknown woman walks out of a border mist with an old satchel over her shoulder...read more

Product Description: At the center of this brilliant novel is the crumbling relationship between a young artist, Kim -- coldly passionate, talented, secretive -- and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber.