The Wolfclaw Chronicles

By Tom Bryan,

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It was like the beginning of a bad joke: a Russian, Irishman, Highlander, half-breed Indian and a North-Easter sat around a bar in mid-November in a dying place...

The place is Macqueensport, a seaport in the western Highlands, where the regulars meet in the Haddock Arms to discuss the general…

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1 author picked The Wolfclaw Chronicles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this—Tom’s only published novel—not just because of the author’s impressive command of brevity (a prolific poet and short-story writer, he is a master of saying more with less) but also because his poet’s love of language shines through in the dialogue: each character has unique verbal habits and idiosyncrasies, just as people in real life have. Tom’s characters are the sort of folk I want to hang out with: philosophers, all; originals; one-offs; salt of the Earth. 

There’s also a wolf angle. Wolves have always resonated with me. As a child, I photographed them (mainly wildlife parks) wherever…

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