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‘Bad Attitudes’ is a slim volume telling tales from a Glasgow housing scheme, where clashes of personalities within and between households are played out. There are battles of the sexes, ag...
From the Dear Scotland Indelible Ink article: "Andrew O’Hagan’s Booker nominated 2006 novel Be Near Me tackles themes which are common in modern Scottish literature, but in a manner whic...
Will be reviewed on Dear Scotland in July 2010 Summary ...being a book about Alvin, Frannie, Dolby, Brian, Belinda (doing eighty), Tyra the Beautiful, Connor f***ing Livingstone, Stephen ...
Will be reviewed on Dear Scotland in September 2010 Summary "Donovan shows a great deal of skill for a first novelist, developing each point of view in turn but never failing to advance h...
There is a quote on the cover of my paperback of Duncan McLean’s ‘Bunker Man’ from Cosmopolitan Magazine that claims ‘Duncan McLean is Scotland’s answer to Roddy Doyle’. If a fan of...
Kieron Smith's coming-of-age in a rough Glasgow neighborhood is grimly rendered by Kelman in this stark and affecting novel. The younger of two boys, Kieron is overlooked and seen as simple com...
From the Dear Scotland Indelible Ink article: "Rarely can an epigraph have summed up the novel to come better than the Hunter S. Thompson quote that appears before John Niven’s 2008 novel ...
Will be reviewed on Dear Scotland in October 2010 Summary "Remarkable... Lanark is a work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches." Times Literary Supplement " 'It was ti...
From the Dear Scotland Indelible Ink article: "I should make it clear that I think Alan Warner is a writer who would have been a success whatever the cultural climate, but, in terms of getti...
2011 is the 30th anniversary of The Blue Nile's first work together. Four albums - containing a total of just 33 songs - have followed since. Yet scarcity has served only to intensify love for ...
Pandaemonium lives up to Christopher usual tightly written and ironically observed previous offerings. He has an amusing yet engaging style of writing that leaves you both believing and gobsmac...
It's midnight in Glasgow as DJ Zaf presents Radio Chandni s last ever programme. The playlist features songs from the soundtracks of romantic old Indian films, Beatles' and Stranglers' classics...
