John Sturrock QC

Poacher’s Pilgrimage

“Alastair McIntosh is already established as one of Scotland’s greatest living authors... I read this book in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote and the Chilcot report into the UK’s involvement in the Iraq war. Writing prior to these events, his reflections on a leader’s ‘political paranoia’, living out the myth of redemptive violence, seem prophetic. McIntosh, while immersed in the folk traditions and religious gravity of the Western Isles, simultaneously speaks to us about the most contemporary and pressing of issues.”