Eighth Moon Bridge

About the Book: 

‘They say he brought back some Spanish gold and others say he didn’t bring anything except the rags he was wearing but had the power to turn stone into gold and that the two stories somehow got mixed up.’

Jack’s world changes when he crosses the bridge to The Island: it becomes sea and hawthorn and pine and the mint clinging to the air around Sally. As he passes to and fro over the bridge, Jack begins to unlock memories and unearth relationships in his own family and across The Island. Who really was Olghair MacKenzie and what was his secret? 

A quiet adventure of connection and separation, mystery and treasure, Eighth Moon Bridge is a story that unfolds over generations, drawing out how we grieve, how we choose, how we remember.

Reviews:

This is a charming novel, a kind one too, because Angus Peter Campbell believes in kindness just as Alexander McCall Smith does, and kindness in a novel is rare enough these days to be cherished. Charm and kindness in fiction too easily give way to sentimentality, something Scottish novelists have been suspiciously aware of since the days of the Kailyard, but Campbell never gives way to that temptation. This is a sensuous novel with much beauty, lovely evocations of the land and sea, but it is never sentimental. There is always the awareness of death, the unstoppable march of change, but at the same time it is so beautifully and tenderly written so as to offer delight on every page. A lesser writer would have stretched it out to three or four times the length. As it is, it's a book that you will surely, on reaching the end, turn back to read again; a truly delightful piece of work made by a fine craftsman. ALLAN MASSIE, The Scotsman

It's a delightful, & often unexpected, read which can floor you emotionally with a single line. ALASTAIR BRAIDWOOD

Captivating and beautifully crafted … brimming with kindness. A magical melange of folklore and history seen through modern-day eyes … mesmerising. SALLY McDONALD, Sunday Post

Nimble and heart warming this is a story of our time and one that reaches well beyond our cultural shores. CATHY MACDONALD, Stornoway Gazette

I love Eighth Moon Bridge – such wonderful writing, such grace and loveliness, and so many puzzles to ponder! DR JOHN DEMPSTER, Inverness Courier

It is as dizzily supernatural as a Highland nightscape, as spiritual as a Uist twilight, as moral as a Highland history and as gripping as a Lionel Messi Slalom from the centre circle to the goal. It will be most readers' tale of the year. ROGER HUTCHINSON, West Highland Free Press

If you are looking for a light hearted, quick read this is the book for you. It’s set on a fictional Scottish Island with the old Gaelic language being a big part of the theme. MAGICIANBOOKCLUB

I did like the main character Jack. I did like reading about his life. The ups and downs. I liked the writing style. SUE.WALLACE1974

What a wee gem of a book this is! It’s full of the charm and challenges of a small Scottish island, packed full of characters and culture. BOOKSBYBINDU

It was so relaxing, almost soothing, just reading about Jack's life. BLUEFAIRYBUGSBOOKS

I've enjoyed reading this gentle, short novel... PUGWASH18

While this is a truly magical book with mystery and lost treasure, it also has some heartbreaking moments. I felt it was also a story about keeping the old ways alive in an age where people are losing their heritage and culture. ROMAREADSBOOKS

A really gentle and lovely story set on a fictional Scottish Island. The novel is very reflective and reminiscent, centred around main character Jack and the life he has lived. We see Jack grow from childhood to young adulthood, experience ups and downs. MUM_OF_BOYS_NORTHEAST

About the Author:

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL is a native of the Island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides and was brought up there and on the Island of Seil in Argyll. He attended Oban High School where his English teacher was Iain Crichton Smith, then graduated with Honours in History and Politics from the University of Edinburgh, under the guidance of the great Marxist teacher Professor Richard Ashcraft from the UCLA who was a Visiting Fellow at the time.

His writing has won many awards over the years, including the premier Bardic Crown from the leading Gaelic organisation, An Comunn Gàidhealach. His Gaelic novel An Oidhche Mus do Sheòl Sinn was voted by the public into the Top Ten of the Best-Ever novels from Scotland. His poetry collection The Greatest Gift was reviewed as a masterpiece by Sorley MacLean, his poetry collection Aibisidh won the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2012, and his novel Memory and Straw the Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2017. The writer, academic and singer Dr Anne Lorne Gillies has described him as ‘an international literary figure alongside the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison and Laura Esquivel’.