Silent Riders of the Sea

A Poetic Masterpiece of Scotland's Grit. In the shadow of 1930's Scotland's scrumbling mining industry, Jack, a miner shattered by his son's death from pneumonia, joins desperate comrades seeking a better life on a perilous Artic Fishing boat. Silent Riders of the Sea by John Gerard Fagan is a haunting verse novel that captures the raw pulse of Scotland's working class struggle. Fagan's spare, evocative prose has been praised as "e;beautiful but bleak"e; and "e;powerful yet kind"e; and has been compared to Cormac McCarthy's. Silent Riders of The Sea has been illustrated by the Author and is an amazing blending of Scottish working-class grit with the relentless cruelty of nature and survival on a gruesome Arctic fishing boat. Perfect for fans of nautical literature and gritty historical sagas such as Angela's Ashes _______________________________________John Gerard Fagan is a Scottish writer from Muirhead in the outskirts of Glasgow, who currently lives in Dunbar. His memoir Fish Town, about buying a one-way ticket to rural Japan, where he lived for seven years, was published in 2021. Silent Riders of the Seais his first work of long fiction.