The Trickster
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MURIEL GRAY
The Trickster
Copyright
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015
Copyright © Muriel Gray 1994, 2015
Introduction © Mark Millar 2015
Cover photograph © Sverrir Thorolfsson Iceland/Getty Images
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Source ISBN: 9780008158248
Ebook Edition © December 2015 ISBN: 9780008134730
Version: 2015-10-14
Dedication
For
Hamish MacVinish Barbour
and Hector Adam Barbour.
With love.
Contents
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface to the 20th anniversary edition
Introduction
Chapter 1: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 54
Chapter 55: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60: Alberta 1907 Siding Twenty-three
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Keep Reading
Furnace: Chapter 1
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also By the Author
About the Publisher
Preface to the 20th anniversary edition
Here’s a confession. If The Trickster had been written today instead of twenty years ago it would probably be a much lazier book. There was no internet in 1994. Well, there was a sort of internet. It was called ‘a library’.
The story grew after a two-month winter stay in the Canadian Rockies, in and around the Alberta town of Banff, named after the Aberdeenshire town by the Scots who built the great railway that opened up Western Canada to the world. That fascinating historical connection, combined with the local Native Canadian lore and backdrop of fiercely beautiful, unforgiving mountain landscape, would set any imagination alight. And it did.
The history of the Canadian Pacific Railway alone is enough to fill a whole library of books, as indeed it has, as I discovered when I set out to find more, poring over volumes in Glasgow’s grand Mitchell Library.