Seventy years after Ken and Alec take two horses into the sea, a shadow lands on a remote beach and is cast over Brian Miller's life.

Miller survives the first weight of the shadow's falling but years later he still feels its chill presence. When he sits in his coveted seat with the phone box view and tries to attract good thoughts; when he remembers old Alec sitting in the garden watching the tortoises shove their way through the summer grass; when psychotic neighbors terrorise his block of flats and kidnap a puppy until they run out of dog food; or when he thinks of the rock Duncan stood on by the river which became the rock stuck in Miller's head for the rest of his life...always in his mind is the shadow that landed on the beach seventy years after Ken, Alec and the horses entered the sea together.

From contemplative tea drinking in a favourite cafe, to war, love, family tragedy, higher education, international travel, law-breaking, unemployment, isolation, literary ambition, government harassment, and spiritual quest...Miller needs a little help from the universe as he struggles to recover something from reality's maelstrom and counter the shadow's weight.

John Logan's fiction, including eleven chapters from  Bringing Something Back, has been published in literary magazines and anthologies all over the world from North America and Eastern Europe to Israel, India,  and China. He was born in Glasgow in 1967 and lives and writes in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

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"A blistering, tough book, tempered with tenderness and mystery...Bringing  Something Back reminds me of Thomas Healy's fine confessional writing." Alan Warner

"Logan writes in very original terms..."the death thread" resonates throughout the book...the various physical and mental crises the narrator goes through ring only too true." Dr.  David Moses, Scottish Studies Review

Edinburgh Review

Logan's work has been reviewed in Scotland on Sunday, The Spectator, Scottish Studies Review, and The Hindustan Times (New Delhi)