Brian Ruckley





Brian Ruckley

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I was born and brought up in Edinburgh. After studying at Edinburgh and Stirling Universities, and after a good deal of displacement activity (varying from spending three months in the rainforests of Borneo trying to record the dawn chorus of gibbons to briefly working in a tea warehouse / factory), I moved to England to enter the world of full-time employment.

As much by luck as judgement, I had a series of on the whole enjoyable and interesting jobs, mostly based in London. All of them save one have been in the charity sector, and at various times they have involved extensive overseas travel, environmental and community projects, nature conservation and fundraising.

Writing was a big feature of my childhood, and has ebbed and flowed as a sp...more


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Light has been much on my mind recently, as the year climbs slowly out of the gloom and grey of Winter and into the sunlight of Spring/Summer. Every year, during the six months of short days, cloud, and heavy nights that constitute Oct-March hereabouts, I somehow manage to half-forget just how renewing and mood-enhancing and life-affirming the warmer, longer, gentler light of Summer is. Every y...

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Published on May 18, 2012 02:25 • 5 views
Average rating: 3.39 · 1,539 ratings · 231 reviews · 5 distinct works
Winterbirth (The Godless Wo...
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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Bloodheir (The Godless Worl...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Fall of Thanes (The Godless...
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The Edinburgh Dead
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Winterbirth Bloodheir Fall of Thanes
The Godless World (3 books)
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“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”
Brian Ruckley, Fall of Thanes

“Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.”
Brian Ruckley, Winterbirth

“When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.”
Brian Ruckley, Bloodheir



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