Andrew Greig has written over twenty acclaimed books of poetry, non-fiction and novels, the most recent being Later That Day; You Know Who You Could Be (with Mike Heron); and Fair Helen respectively. Elements of these genres, along with a love of adventure and landscape, mark all his writing and give it its particular quality. A full-time writer and sometimes musician, he lives in Edinburgh and Orkney with his wife, novelist Lesley Glaister.

For what sets Fair Helen above the usual run of historical novels, aside from Grieg's extraordinarily deft use of language, is its moral depth, its acute sense of intricacies of the Border feuds and of the Byzantine intrigues of James' inner circle and, most poignantly, the helplessness and determination of those characters.

Andrew Greig has written over twenty acclaimed books of poetry, non-fiction and novels, the most recent being Later That Day; You Know Who You Could Be (with Mike Heron); and Fair Helen respectively. Elements of these genres, along with a love of adventure and landscape, mark all his writing and give it its particular quality. A full-time writer and sometimes musician, he lives in Edinburgh and Orkney with his wife, novelist Lesley Glaister.

For what sets Fair Helen above the usual run of historical novels, aside from Grieg's extraordinarily deft use of language, is its moral depth, its acute sense of intricacies of the Border feuds and of the Byzantine intrigues of James' inner circle and, most poignantly, the helplessness and determination of those characters.

Andrew Greig has written over twenty acclaimed books of poetry, non-fiction and novels, the most recent being Later That Day; You Know Who You Could Be (with Mike Heron); and Fair Helen respectively. Elements of these genres, along with a love of adventure and landscape, mark all his writing and give it its particular quality. A full-time writer and sometimes musician, he lives in Edinburgh and Orkney with his wife, novelist Lesley Glaister.

For what sets Fair Helen above the usual run of historical novels, aside from Grieg's extraordinarily deft use of language, is its moral depth, its acute sense of intricacies of the Border feuds and of the Byzantine intrigues of James' inner circle and, most poignantly, the helplessness and determination of those characters.