A Working Class State of Mind

Author: Colin Burnett
Publisher: Leamington Books
ISBN: 1914090225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Written entirely in East coast Scots A Working Class State of Mind, the debut book by Colin Burnett, brings the everyday reality and language of life in Scotland to the surface. Colin's fiction takes themes in the social sciences and animates them in vivid ethnographic portrayals of what it means to be working class in Scotland today. Delving into the tragic exploits of Aldo as well as his long time suffering best friends Dougie and Craig, the book follows these and other characters as they make their way in a city more divided along class lines than ever before.

You Are Not Alone

Author: STORGY BOOKS
Publisher: STORGY Books
ISBN: 1916325882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
With great thanks to contributing authors, artists, and designers, STORGY Books is proud to present You Are Not Alone; An Anthology of Hope and Isolation. Working in close partnership with UK charities The Big Issue Foundation (registered charity number 1049077), Centrepoint (292411), Shelter (263710), and The Bristol Methodist Centre (1150295), STORGY Books is publishing an exclusive anthology to help raise funds and provide support for people affected by homelessness following the devastating outbreak of Coronavirus. For far too long the most vulnerable within our communities have suffered in isolation, abandoned and ignored, voiceless. But we hear our hurting kin; and this is our reply...You Are Not Alone. All proceeds from purchases of You Are Not Alone will be equally distributed between our partner charities to provide ongoing support for people experiencing homelessness during – and after – the Covid-19 crisis. You Are Not Alone is dedicated to lost loved ones. You will never be forgotten.

Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration

Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393077217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Never-collected tales, including outrageous early stories from the Trainspotting years, plus a raucous new novella. Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh’s trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous humor, and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. You can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie at his Ma’s and see how he greets his sister’s boyfriend and news of their engagement. You’ll discover in “The Rosewell Incident” why aliens speak hardcore Scots English and plan to put Midlothian roughs in charge of the planet. And you’ll be delighted to welcome back “Juice” Terry Lawson and now internationally famous DJ Carl Ewart, and watch them as they meet an old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. These stories, most first published in small magazines and out-of-print anthologies, are all wildly offbeat and will delight both fans of and newcomers to Welsh’s world.

The Wit and Wisdom of Bobby ‘Chicken Legs’ Muldoon

Author: Kate Donne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326597833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
'Robert James Muldoon. That's me, fifteen years auld, four feet three wi bright red hair an legs like a chicken...' It's 1968. Bobby, as he is better known, lives in a Gorbals' tower block in Glasgow. He desperately wants to be 'grown up' but his journey to maturity is fraught with obstacles. He is crippled by a lack of self-confidence, tormented at school, controlled by his OCD mother and ignored by the lassies. Gradually Bobby realises he has the ability to make something of himself if he can only overcome his lack of self-esteem. So he begins his journey to adulthood and, with the help and support of his father and the slightly mysterious Archie, the only true friend he has, he meets each crisis head on with a sharp, witty sense of humour and a huge amount of determination.

Trainspotting

Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393343685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave).

Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel

Author: Stephen Ross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350067873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers. In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores: · The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners · The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning · Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange · Irony and authenticity in the 1980s – from Amis to Kureishi · Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.

The Young Team

Author: Graeme Armstrong
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529017343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
The Times top ten bestseller Granta Best of Young British Novelists Scots Book o the Year Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland’s former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors. 2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi [YTB] begins. 2012. Azzy dreams of another life. He faces his toughest fight of all – the fight for a different future. Expect Buckfast. Expect bravado. Expect street philosophy. Expect rave culture. Expect anxiety. Expect addiction. Expect a serious facial injury every six hours. Expect murder. Hope for a way out. Inspired by the experiences of its author, Graeme Armstrong, The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom, violence and threat of life on these streets. It looks beyond the tabloid stereotypes to tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young people in Britain today. ‘A swaggering, incendiary debut’ – Guardian ‘Dialect that fizzes off the page’ – Observer ‘One of the most admired young voices in British fiction’ – The Times

Vox 'n' Roll

Author: Richard Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Vox n Roll is a byword for the best in stimulating new fiction. Over the many years that the Vox n Roll evenings at Filthy MacNasty s Whiskey Cafe in London have been running, a staggering range of authors has held court there. This anthology features new work from many of the top writers who have appeared at Vox n Roll. Nicholas Blincoe moves us through a musical mystery, Sparkle Hayter tells us how she met your father at the Chelsea Hotel and got a cat called Bastard. Matt Thorne takes us to bridge classes and John Williams gets into the management of girl bands.

antichaos

Author: donald mcdonald
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0955678102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
An unlikely armed robber, Joe Gorman sticks up a Glasgow bookies. He fires his Luger pistol in the air to deter an assailant. This has sinister and unexpected consequences. From then on he is 9000 richer but becomes a fugitive from gangsters, the Glasgow police and Basil Billings, the famous London private eye."

The Ringing Ear

Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820329253
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
More than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South in this collection of poems, which features contributions by Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, Sonia Sanchez, and other notables. Simultaneous.