How Late It Was How Late – Callum McSorley

My top Scottish authors, part 1

November 20, 2018

As it’s Book Week Scotland, I thought I’d post some words on my favourite Scottish authors. (In no particular order.) James Kelman – Kelman’s novel How Late it Was, How Late earned him a Booker Prize in 1994 (the first and only time the prize has been won by a Scottish author) and earned me … More My top Scottish authors, part 1

Pulp 2 influences: No Mean City

November 3, 2017

I first read No Mean City while at university, on a course called The Glasgow Novel. It sat alongside the likes of Alasdair Grey’s Lanark and James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late. Published in 1935, it shocked the public of the time with its depictions of violence and poverty in Glasgow’s notorious slum, … More Pulp 2 influences: No Mean City