Graeme Macrae Burnet on the island murders that inspired his new novel

Graeme Macrae Burnet on the island murders that inspired his new novel

When he found 130 handwritten pages of witness statements relating to a triple murder on the island of Benbecula in the 19th century, Graeme Macrae Burnet realised he had everything he needed to reconstruct a long-forgotten story, writes Susan Mansfield

Novel ‘Theo of Golden’ a remarkable tale of God-inspired kindness amid pervasive suffering

Allen Levi wrote his extraordinary novel Theo of Golden with no plans to publish it and an audience of one in mind. “I thought to myself very consciously: when I die, I will take this manuscript and I will stand in the presence of my God and my Christ, and I will say, ‘Lord, this is a present that I made for you.’ And that satisfies me completely,” he recently told an interviewer in front of a theater crowd. Utterly remarkable. Here is an author…