books in order

Andrew Greig Books In Order

Novels

  1. Electric Brae (1992)
  2. The Return of John MacNab (1996)
  3. When They Lay Bare (1999)
  4. That Summer (2000)
  5. In Another Light (2004)
  6. Romanno Bridge (2008)
  7. Fair Helen (2013)
  8. Rose Nicolson (2021)

Collections

  1. Men on Ice (1977)
  2. Surviving Passages (1982)
  3. A Flame in Your Heart (1986)
  4. Western Swing (1994)
  5. The Order of the Day (1997)

Anthologies edited

  1. Word Jig (2003)

Non fiction

  1. Summit Fever (1985)
  2. Kingdoms of Experience (1986)
  3. Preferred Lies (2006)
  4. At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)
  5. You Know What You Could Be: Tuning into the 1960s (2017)

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Andrew Greig Books Overview

Electric Brae

First published in 1992, this first novel deals with passionate love, obsession, loyalty and betrayal. It is about Scotland now and then, whisky and cocaine, rhythm and blues, friends and lovers. Andrew Greig is the author of ‘The Return of John Macnab’ and ‘Summit Fever’.

The Return of John MacNab

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.

When They Lay Bare

Spied on by the factor of an estate in the Scottish Borders, an unknown woman enters a cottage that has been empty since the violent deaths of its inhabitants more than 20 years ago. She has a set of antique plates which she believes can tell her the truth about the past and what she is to do now.

That Summer

In a novel that will remind many readers of The English Patient and Birdsong, a prize winning British poet and writer has crafted a remarkable elegy to love, the summer of 1940, and the Battle of Britain. The Clouds Above is not only a wonderfully written love story set during the Battle of Britain, but also a brilliant and evocative description of the battle itself. Andrew Greig recreates with a sure touch that extraordinary summer when Great Britain’s survival lay in the hands of two thousand or so very young men. The aerial combat scenes are so vivid that to read this book is to be with these men up in the blue sky, where ten seconds is a very long time and everything happens in a rush of adrenaline and terror. Len, a Royal Air Force Sergeant pilot, and Tadeusz, a Polish pilot serving in the RAF, are thrown directly into the fierce struggle with the Luftwaffe. Despite their obvious differences, they become close friends, each aware that neither of them is likely to survive. In this tumultuous and uncertain time Len falls in love with Stella, a young WAAF radar operator. She is trying to endure her own war: making the transition from a sedate middle class English life to service life with other young women, being bombed and seeing her fellow WAAFs killed, listening to young men die every day, and trying to find an intense, if brief, happiness with a young man who risks his life daily. In chapters alternately narrated by the two young lovers, Len and Stella wrestle with the foolhardiness of a romance in wartime, even as the battle in the sky intensifies. Drawing from his mother’s diary chronicling her own experience during the Battle of Britain, Andrew Greig has written a novel that is as compelling a love story as it is a war story, and of which the Sunday Times London said: ‘Memorable, not only has a good sense of period, but a profound sense of time, and of interpenetration of past and present…
. Beautifully done.’

In Another Light

‘Two small, confined communities in which established connections are cut across by shifting allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate as in hot, now as then, love is a complicated, compromising business’ Times Literary Supplement A young man leans over the railings of the ocean liner bound for the exotic shores of Penang. It is early in the 1930s and Dr Alexander Mackay is on his way to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony. During the voyage he meets two beautiful sisters and the seeds of a scandal are sown. Seventy years later Edward Mackay wakes after a major brain trauma. In the hazy shadowlands of illness, he conjures the figure of his dead father, a man he knew so little about. This near death experience provokes a move to the wilds of Orkney, where Edward joins a project to harness the tides around the island as a renewable source of energy. But in the tight knit island community passions also run high.

Word Jig

Contains stories by Ali Smith, Michel Faber, Andrew Greig, Laura Hird, Suhayl Saadi, Christopher Whyte and Anne Donovan, among many others. ‘Scottish writing is one of the most daring, inventive and searingly honest of contemporary and world fiction…
Word Jig gathers the best of recent Scottish writing.’ Chris Dolan ‘…
a startling and varied range of voices that revew literature’s engagement with the world…
.’ Chuck Wachtel ‘The points of reference range from Scott Fitzgerald to Eminen, in a fine collection that is all about Scotland NOW. Enjoy!’ Alan Spence

Kingdoms of Experience

In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge. The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and the tragic deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. In this book, shortlisted for the Boardman-Tasker Awards, 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.

Preferred Lies

Andrew Greig, poet, novelist, and lapsed golfer, came within moments of death before his surgeon performed a last ditch operation and saved his life. Inspired to pick up his clubs again after a thirty five year on and off again hiatus from the game, Greig traveled eighteen courses on his road to recovery from the northernmost tip of the Orkney Islands to the celebrated fairways of St. Andrews. It was, more than anything, a journey toward reconnection with being alive. Greig’s book tells one man s story of connection to an ancient game, and the story of a father s relationship with his son and the rite of passage into manhood. It is a book of reflections, not only on the pleasures of the game but also on friendship, family, and ghosts from the past. A masterful meditation on golf and healing. Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Bagger Vance Andrew Greig takes familiar turf and turns it into something keen and wry and profound, like the Scottish links he loves so well. Required reading for any lover of the game the way it was meant to be played. Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Bagger Vance What golfer won t go to the links of Scotland to play a few rounds after a close call with death? Andrew Greig s Preferred Lies makes his return to the courses of his youth charming, funny, and profound, as he plays the courses of Scotland, one shot at a time, back to good health. A wonderful book about how golf is one sure way to heal the body and the heart. John Coyne, author of The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan Andrew Greig s mindfulness invokes a bounty of verities: That play is the best medicine for a heart aching with poetry and a mind chattering with anxieties. That peace cannot be found in the pounding polarity waves of hope disappointment or joy sadness. That while we may not be able to change what we see, we can choose how we see it. That real freedom, the most feared option of all, is always present, ours for the taking when we are done with searching everywhere else and decide to operate as our own sacred selves. To the worldly mind, seeing ourselves as gods in embryo is heresy, a lie. With a hearty salute to Andrew, it is exactly the lie I prefer and recommend, along with this book, to all. Printer Bowler, author of The Cosmic Laws of Golf Poignant, wise, and funny, as well as exquisitely written; a book about loss, exultation, pain, and ultimately healing. Iain Banks, author of The Algebraist A wonderful and wise book. The Irish Times Greig s purely struck prose is not the only strength of this book…
he has excellent taste in golf courses. A beautifully written memoir. The Guardian UK Poet and novelist Greig breaks the mold. Greig helps us remember our own perfectly struck golf shots, but he keeps his distance, recognizing the intimacy of the moment. Booklist starred Gentle lyricism and distinctly Scottish outlook make this round a unique pleasure. An accomplished poet, Greig lends lyrical depth to blades of grass and existential musings alike and manages to cast new light on a lot of life s oldest questions. Greig approaches each life lesson with inspiring passion and humility. Publishers Weekly

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