Michael Pedersen is Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His The Cat Prince & Other Poems won the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards Best Poetry and his first novel Boy Friends was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He discusses his new novel Muckle Flugga with Hay Festival President Stephen Fry.
It’s no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The elements run riot and the very rocks that shape the place begin to shift under their influence. The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper and his otherworldly son – just them, and the occasional lodger. When a new lodger arrives from Edinburgh, old and new ways collide...
