Glasgow and Clyde Valley Fiction Books

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  • Cover scan of Fleeto
    Fleeto - Paperback - Paddy Cunneen
    'Fleeto' is the story of a modern day Glasgow street stabbing, in which a white student is killed by a rampaging white gang while trying to defend an Asian friend from their indiscriminate, vengeful rage.
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    Whose Turn For The Stairs? - Hardback - Robert Douglas
    This is a story about 12 families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. Yet all is not well in their world.
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    Death Of A Ladies' Man - Hardback - Alan Bissett
    By day, Charlie Bain is the school's most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie journeys further into hedonism, unable to see the destruction his desires are leading everyone towards.
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    Joseph's Box - Paperback - Suhayl Saadi
    Zuleikha MacBeth wades into the Clyde one morning and recovers a large box with which she becomes obsessed. The discovery of the box brings her together with Alex, a lute-playing clerk, and they manage to open the box only to find six further boxes inside which they can only open once they have followed cryptic clues.
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    Nellie Wildchild - Paperback - Emma Blair
    Glaswegian Nellie Thompson had been born into a poor city divided by religion and class, where appearences meant more than the truth. Nellie had held onto her dreams, however, and was determined to leave the grey and violent streets behind her.
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    Falling - Paperback - Gordon Brown
    Charlie Wiggs is a quiet, unassuming accountant who has worked in a Glasgow firm for 30 years. When he agrees to look after a package for a work colleague he doesn't expect to be flung from the roof of a 40 storey building. Forced to flee for his life Charlie is reluctantly joined by George, a maintenance man and George's girlfriend, Tina.
  • Cover scan of Red Alert
    Red Alert - Paperback - Margaret Thomson Davis
    Margaret Thomson Davis' novel tells the story of the Price family and is set in a Glasgow fire station and in the world famous Glasgow School of Art.
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    Javascotia - Paperback - Benjamin Obler
    Melvin Podgorski is young, naive, American - and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coffee franchise.
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    Cat's Cradle - Hardback - Julia Golding
    Cat Royal spins a tale about the search for her family, weaving in friends and foes, old and new. Her journey takes her from riotous London to a revolutionary cotton mill on the River Clyde in Scotland. And a mysterious newcomer is introduced. So take your seats, ladies and gentlemen: the Industrial Age has arrived.
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    Piano Angel - Paperback - Esther Woolfson
    Following the recurrence of a brain tumour, Mark Blum chooses to return to his native Glasgow to die, leaving behind in New York his architectural practice, and bewildered friends and family. The processes of illness oblige Mark to re-assess his life and to re-establish contact with his brother Daniel, a successful photographer.
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