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Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the current Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's Makar.
A lyrical, windswept novel of a lighthouse keeper and his son that is both small and big in all the good ways. A story about place, about family, about love, the forces of change and so much more. You can feel the energy and life in every sentence. Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal. -- Matt Haig A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose. -- Bernardine Evaristo There isn't a word out of place. Muckle Flugga is what happens when a poet has full command of a novel. -- Blindboy A fever dream of a book, melding myth and magic to the monumental landscape of Scotland. -- Ian Rankin To read Muckle Flugga is to stand on the edge of a sea cliff and scream into a storm. This is thrilling, beautiful and impossibly alive writing, bringing all of Michael Pedersen's ferocious and tender skills as poet and memoirist to his debut novel. There is clearly no form of writing Michael cannot master. -- Chris Carse Wilson Muckle Flugga is an epic, a glorious and wonderful book; the language so inventive and imaginative and the soul of it so tender and true. -- Salena Godden Michael Pederson's debut novel is exuberant, soulful and affecting. His deeply flawed, deeply loveable characters continue to hold me hostage now the book is read and back on the shelf. -- Jo Browning Wroe Muckle Flugga is a triumph of a debut novel. Exquisitely and poetically written, broodingly evocative of its beautiful but harsh setting, and with characters that really get under your skin and into your heart. The storytelling is supreme. -- Nicola Sturgeon A beautiful and fascinating tale woven by the ultimate word maverick Michael Pedersen. -- Russell Tovey Michael Pedersen's lush, rococo prose imbues Muckle Flugga with a fantastical, magical, gasp-inducing gait. It is both a domestic tale of island life and a searing paean to the power of art and imagination. -- Alan Cumming Muckle Flugga dazzles with narrative originality, succulent prose, technicolor scenes, and high-definition characters. It's unbridled imagination at its most enthralling. I've never been so in love with a work of fiction. -- Grace Tame Muckle Flugga is a veritable feast, brimming with gusto and magic, in Pedersen's own most singular, glorious and acrobatic language. A real triumph and a gallus debut. -- Shirley Manson
