{"product_id":"9781529051117","title":"Grimoire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Robertson, Robin, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/10\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 80 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Picador,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: PAN MACMILLAN ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529051117\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"strike\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eThe new book from the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eLike some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology, narrated by a doomed shape-changer - a man, beast or god. A grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, Robin Robertson and his brother Tim Robertson - whose accompanying images are as unforgettable as cave-paintings - raise strange new forms which speak not only of the potency of our myths and superstitions, but how they were used to balance and explain the world and its predicaments.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eFrom one of our most powerful lyric poets, this is a book of curses and visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome, characters on the cusp of their transformation - whether women seeking revenge or saving their broken children, or men trying to save themselves.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eHaunting and elemental, Grimoire is full of the same charged beauty as the Scottish landscape - a beauty that can switch, with a mere change in the weather, to hostility and terror.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36456768962713,"sku":"9781529051117","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781529051117.jpg?v=1601396636","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781529051117","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}