Alasdair Maclean’s NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN (1984) was his only full-length prose work. Hilary Mantel called it

“a book like an animated shipping forecast… You hear the ocean and the voice of a salt-laden gale in this sharp, thoughtful, eloquent memoir”

4/4

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In March we start our harvesting.
We dig ourselves down out of sight
in a peat bog,
continuing perhaps all summer
when the weather lets us,
till the job is done…

—Alasdair Maclean, “At the Peats”
Published in FROM THE WILDERNESS (Gollancz, 1973)

3/4

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Sea and sky. Earth-bound as I am
I’ve never yet been able to decide
which one I like best…

—Alasdair Maclean, “Sea and Sky”
Published in FROM THE WILDERNESS (Gollancz, 1973)

2/4

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