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Andrew Greig

Scotland (1951 - )
(Husband of Lesley Glaister)

About Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig is a poet and novelist. He was born in Bannockburn in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Orkney and Sheffield.

Novels

Electric Brae (1992)
The Return of John MacNab (1996)
When They Lay Bare (1999)
That Summer (2000)
aka The Clouds Above
In Another Light (2004)
Romanno Bridge (2008)
Fair Helen (2013)

Collections

White Boats (poems) (1973) (with Catherine Czerkawska)
Men on Ice (1977)
Surviving Passages (1982)
A Flame in Your Heart (1986) (with Kathleen Jamie)
Western Swing (1994)
The Order of the Day (1997)
Into You (poems) (2001)
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 (poems) (2006)
Getting Higher (poems) (2011)
As Though We Were Flying (poems) (2011)
Found at Sea (poems) (2013)

Anthologies edited

Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland (2003) (with Michel Faber and Ali Smith)

Non fiction

Summit Fever: An Armchair Climber's Initiation to Glencoe, Mortal Terror And the Himalayan Matterhorn (1985)
Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge (1986)
Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf (2006)
At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)

Andrew Greig recommends

Upstairs in the Tent (2001)
Cynthia Rogerson
"A real page-turner, witty and touching and true. I read it with delight."

Afterlife (2009)
Sean O'Brien
"A convincing, darkly comic and painful take on the astonishingly poisonous world of poetry and literary aspiration."

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