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glasgowken wrote:Dreadful cover, I complained about it on the Bloodbus forum. Hardly sums up what's inside, looks more like a kids story book
escapologist wrote:A great non-fic local history book is about the Britania Panopticon Music Hall in Trongate. I imagine this place would appeal to Hidden Glasgow posters.
The book's on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stan-Laurel-Oth ... 184158617X
I am told that the author is doing an event at Aye Write as well.
DMcNay wrote:Did you just declare a new round of Rod Stewart?
pamd wrote:Not a book, but an excellent film - Ratcatcher.
"The squalid council estates of Glasgow, mid-’70s. While a dustmen’s strike grinds on, life at home for 12-year-old James Gillespie (Eadie) is intolerable. His father’s a drunken slob, his mother under pressure, and James himself is hiding a terrible secret about an accident in the local canal. To distance himself, he befriends 14-year-old Margaret Anne (Mullen), steals some money and rides the bus out into the countryside… "
From memory I think this is filmed around the Summerston area - at least I recognised the buses! The whole feel was one of community and repression. I loved it.
sunnysider wrote:A Disaffection by James Kelman. Just superb - even better even than How Late is Was, How Late which won the Booker. Buy two. In case you lose one.
Such Bad Company by George (?) Forbes and Paddy Meehan is a really interesting study of Glasgow criminality.
And I remember a huge furore kicked up in the seventies by something called A Glasgow Gang Observed - always wanted to read it but never did.
pamd wrote:Not a book, but an excellent film - Ratcatcher.
"The squalid council estates of Glasgow, mid-’70s. While a dustmen’s strike grinds on, life at home for 12-year-old James Gillespie (Eadie) is intolerable. His father’s a drunken slob, his mother under pressure, and James himself is hiding a terrible secret about an accident in the local canal. To distance himself, he befriends 14-year-old Margaret Anne (Mullen), steals some money and rides the bus out into the countryside… "
From memory I think this is filmed around the Summerston area - at least I recognised the buses! The whole feel was one of community and repression. I loved it.
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