But I discovered Holdstock anew by reading The Broken Kings (from the Merlin Codex)... so sorrowful... so beautiful... It's a pity I discovered the last part of this trilogy first (and I keep postponing the reading of the first and the second parts).

Oh, interesting: that's the series I've never read any of. It sounds like you recommend.

I wonder are there any more books that are called Pictish fantasy?!

Outside of some short stories by Kipling . . .