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It was like the beginning of a bad joke: a Russian, Irishman, Highlander, half-breed Indian and a North-Easter sat around a bar in mid-November in a dying place...

The place is Macqueensport, a seaport in the western Highlands, where the regulars meet in the Haddock Arms to discuss the general…

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I love this – Tom’s only published novel – not just because of the author’s impressive command of brevity (a prolific poet and short-story writer, he is a master of saying more with less) but also because his poet’s love of language shines through in the dialogue: each character has unique verbal habits and idiosyncrasies, just as people in real life have.

Tom’s characters are the sort of folk I want to hang out with: philosophers, all; originals; one-offs; salt of the Earth. There’s also a wolf angle. Wolves have always resonated with me. As a child, I photographed them…

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