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His tale...deserves to be told in a way that illuminates its epoch, and it is not without significance for our own.

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'...fascinating...a fine piece of work. And I am pleased to have more support for my ideas on social banditry.' Eric Hobsbawm, author of Bandits. 'the book is packed with as much adventure, murder and mayhem as any work of fiction' Morag Lindsay, The Press and Journal 'Intermingling what little documented accounts of MacPhee he could find with the folklore that surrounds him, (Mitchell's) intriguing little book takes the form of fictionalised accounts by various people, from landlords and officers - even that arch-romanticiser, Sir Walter Scott- to the outlaw himself' Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman '[Mitchell's objective was to provide] a compendium of tales that do some justice to Ewan MacPhee. He has not failed in that objective, it is fascinating, indeed, to decide what real and what is less or more so, to separate the fict from the faction, or vice versa. All in all, it's an astounding story, intricately told' Tom Kyle, The Daily Mail

'...fascinating...a fine piece of work. And I am pleased to have more support for my ideas on social banditry.' - Eric Hobsbawm, author of Bandits. 'the book is packed with as much adventure, murder and mayhem as any work of fiction' - Morag Lindsay, The Press and Journal 'Intermingling what little documented accounts of MacPhee he could find with the folklore that surrounds him, (Mitchell's) intriguing little book takes the form of fictionalised accounts by various people, from landlords and officers - even that arch-romanticiser, Sir Walter Scott- to the outlaw himself' - Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman '[Mitchell's objective was to provide] a compendium of tales that do some justice to Ewan MacPhee. He has not failed in that objective, it is fascinating, indeed, to decide what real and what is less or more so, to separate the fict from the faction, or vice versa. All in all, it's an astounding story, intricately told' - Tom Kyle, The Daily Mail

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Originally from Aberdeen, Ian Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for the past thirty years. Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for A View from the Ridge, historian Ian R. Mitchell gave up teaching to write full time. Ian's background in historical research, coupled with indepth personal experience of East Berlin in the 1980s, allows him to create an authentic historical novel. His previous exercise in historical fiction, Mountain Outlaw, was described by the renowned historian E J Hobsbawm as 'fascinating...a fine piece of work...more support for my ideas on social banditry.'

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