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Life and Limb wins major literary award

In 2004 Life and Limb was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize and was the winner of the prestigious Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Mountain Literature.

In March 2005 the paperback version was selected as Book of the Month by Ottakars Bookstores Scotland.

In August 2001, two and a half years after the accident, I finally took the plunge and began work on a book, telling the full tale of my ordeal, rescue and rehabilitation for the first time. A further two and a half years later, Life and Limb finally hit the bookshelves, and I breathed an enormous sigh of relief. As a taster you can read the Synopsis and the Prologue of Life and Limb here. The book is available from good bookshops but you can buy signed copies of both hardback and paperback and request individual dedications here, at reduced prices. Click Buy Now at the bottom of this page.

:: Read Reviews of Life and Limb here ::

Synopsis

Jamie Andrew's rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in Chamonix has passed into Alpine legend; his survival was miraculous - but his close friend died in his arms and Jamie himself lost both his hands and legs to frostbite. His description of that episode is both enthralling and harrowing. The book also describes Jamie's life since he learnt to walk again on prosthetic legs - and since then he has married his long-term girlfriend, Anna, and, astonishingly, both climbed Mont Blanc again and ran in the London Marathon.

::: Read more in the prologue here :::

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Newsflash

Days Like This

The Scottish Book Trust, in conjunction with BBC Scotland, are running a project called Days Like This. The idea is to get as many people in Scotland as possible to send in stories about a day in their life which is in some way, meaningful, outstanding or in any way special.