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.

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.

Three high-flying men who suffer from boredom concoct a plan to cure it. They inform 3 Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon. They sign collectively as 'John McNab' and await the responses. Part of the 'Leithen Stories' series, this novel discusses the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.

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

Product Description: One evening in summer, author Andrew Greig embarked upon a micro-odyssey that took place from Stromness to the island of Cava, and Found at Sea recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage. Written in six weeks, this is a “very wee epic” about sailing, male friendship, and a voyage...read more

Product Description: Elderly narrator Harry Langton looks back on the adventures and friends of his youth, transporting the reader to the Scottish Borderlands at the end of the 16th century... The much younger Langton returns to his birthplace to aid an old friend, the brash Adam Fleming, who has fallen for legendary beauty Helen of Annandale...read more

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...