His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016
About this audiobook
“A fiendishly readable tale.” The Guardian“An astonishing piece of writing” The Telegraph“Gripping, blackly playful and intelligent.” The Times
The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae.
A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.
In this, Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller and set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.
About the author
Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the UK’s leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world as a double Booker Prize nominee. His dazzling second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2016, and in 2022 his 'brilliant, bamboozling' (Telegraph) fourth novel, Case Study, appeared on the Booker longlist. Born in Kilmarnock, he lives in Glasgow, where he studied film and English literature. After teaching English overseas and working as a researcher in the television industry, Graeme won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013, and he now writes full-time. Graeme is also the author of two French-set novels inspired by Georges Simenon and featuring Gorski, a detective: The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017), with a third Gorski novel set to appear soon. All his novels are published in the UK by independent press Saraband.
Crawford Logan is a Scottish actor whose credits include roles in Outlander, Doctor Who and EastEnders and numerous BBC radio programmes. As a voice actor, he has narrated books by Graeme Macrae Burnet, Alexander McCall Smith and SG MacLean, amongst others.
Cameron Mowat is a theatre director and actor who has acted in National Theatre of Scotland productions and directed several plays for Aberdeen-based company Ten Feet Tall, where he is Co-Artistic Director. As well as narrating His Bloody Project, he has appeared in several BBC radio programmes and has recorded texts for the RNIB.
