Pao_1Nov 28, 2024

An innocent 15-year-old boy living in extreme poverty, with an alcoholic mother and a dysfunctional family, in the violent, gloomy, grim East End of Glasgow, falls in love and is forced to grow up.
Harrowing and tough, but also beautiful and honest.

Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
8/10

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Brian FaucetteSep 25, 2023
Finished the third part of May’s trilogy: The Black House, The Lewis Man and this one about the isle of Lewis and Fin McLeod. It was a fitting end that brilliantly combines the psychology of Fin, his past and the island with a cold case involving a rock star’s mysterious disappearance. Brilliant books that offer insights into the people and places of the Hebrides in Scotland. #crimefiction #Scottishnovels
Brian Lavelle has movedSep 23, 2023

“Every dance, every lifetime, is unique, and that infinity of dances from every race and from every era, is of incalculable value, and comprehends the great ceremonial dance of mankind. But the music will not be known in all its glory until it is rounded with silence.”

George Mackay Brown, from Beside the Ocean of Time (1994)

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