Longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize
Benbecula by Booker-prize shortlisted Graeme Macrae Burnet is the latest in Birlinn’s acclaimed Darkland Tales series of novels by some of Scotland’s most exciting authors, retelling key moments from Scotland’s history and legend. Benbecula tells the chilling story of a brutal triple murder on the eponymous Hebridean island in 1857, proving Macrae Burnet’s mastery of psychological thrillers
Graeme Macrae Burnet is a Scottish writer. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, earned him the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013, and his second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, and Case Study was longlisted in 2022.