Luath Press Rights Catalogue 2024
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16 <strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> Limited Fiction<br />
The Road Dance<br />
JOHN MACKAY<br />
9781910022979<br />
May 2022<br />
Paperback<br />
198x129mm<br />
192pp<br />
£8.99<br />
Film Tie-In Edition<br />
FBA Modern and<br />
contemporary fiction<br />
The Road Dance has been made into a<br />
movie starring Mark Gatiss, Morven<br />
Christie and Hermione Corfield. It<br />
released in UK/IRE cinemas in May 2022<br />
and is now available on Amazon Prime<br />
and other streaming services. Winner of<br />
the Edinburgh International Film Festival<br />
Audience Award.<br />
Life in the Scottish Hebrides can be harsh – the edge of the world, some call it. For the<br />
beautiful Kirsty MacLeod, the love of Murdo and their dreams of America promise an<br />
escape from the scrape of the land, the repression of the Church and the inevitability<br />
of the path their lives would take.<br />
But as the Great War looms Murdo is conscripted. The villagers hold a grand Road<br />
Dance to send their young men off to battle. As the dancers swirl and sup, the wheels<br />
of tragedy are set in motion.<br />
Powerful, shocking, heartbreaking<br />
DAILY MAIL<br />
[MacKay] has captured time, place and atmosphere superbly...<br />
SUNDAY HERALD<br />
A gripping plot that subtly twists and turns, vivid characterisation, and a real sense of<br />
time and tradition...<br />
SCOTS MAGAZINE<br />
JOHN MACKAY was born in Glasgow in 1965. His childhood summers<br />
were spent at his grandmother’s home on the Isle of Lewis. His<br />
novels draw heavily on the influences of that background. MacKay is<br />
a journalist and newsreader for STV and presents the STV News at Six<br />
and Scotland Tonight.
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