Shrapnel

Shrapnel by Tormod Caimbeul (Norman Campbell)

About the book

Set in Edinburgh’s underbelly, awash with drunks and criminals where only a thin membrane separates peace and violence, the cast of characters works like the multitudinous voices of a Robert Altman film, all speaking simultaneously. From Donati’s to the Black Bull, from the Cowgate to the National Gallery; through the backstreets, dives and basements of the capital; we ride with them through their thoughts and adventures and, occasionally, through their dreams and nightmares to the denouement where the true nature of Shrapnel, and his enmity, is revealed. 

Review

'Where Tormod Caimbeul’s classic, astonishing novel of 1979, Deireadh an Fhoghair (The End of Autumn), portrayed rural isolation, this time his environment is entirely different. It is Edinburgh’s underbelly. And he retains our attention and interest in every incident, good or bad, right to the end of this equally astonishing story, without once losing our engagement with a rabble where no individual can hold any attraction for us.'

Aonghas MacNeacail, writer and broadcaster

Further details

Cover design by James Hutcheson

Paperback
176 pages
ISBN 10: 1 900901 26 9
ISBN 13: 978 1 900901 26 9
Retail price: £8.99

Four CD Audio Book available summer 2007

Shrapnel and Deireadh an Fhoghair are both published by CLÀR (as part of the Ùr-Sgeul series)

Ùr-Sgeul, co-ordinated by the Gaelic Books Council, is supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.

Buy the book and/or CD online or from The Gaelic Books Council, 22 Mansfield Street Glasgow G11 5QP 
Tel. 0141 337 6211 or Fax. 0141 341 0515
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