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In the legend-steeped Borders region of Scotland, a writer discovers the hidden past of the man she loves and the truth of her mothers teachings.
Late Proterozoic Torridonian Applecross Sandstone, exposed west of the Paleozoic Moine Thrust Zone (MTZ) in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, preserves fractures sets that reflect a 900 m.y. structural history. The Applecross Sandstone contains at least three systematically developed sets of fractures, A, B and L. Relative timing was determined by crosscutting relations. The oldest fractures, Set A, strikes north-south and is completely filled with quartz cement. These formed as opening-mode fractures, indicated by crack-seal texture along fracture walls, and later experienced reactivation as strike slip faults, as indicated by brecciated fracture fill. Set B has a trimodal distribution i...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and an international bestseller: a brilliant meditation on truth, power, and (in)sanity. A BBC Radio 4 Book Club pick 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 insane? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. 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 set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.