Books, Issue 569
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Toni Davidson
12 Feb 2007Eight years on from the publication of Scar Cultur
So, what’s in a name? Quite a lot as far as Toni Davidson is concerned. The author of 1999’s cult classic Scar Culture wants you to have his characters ingrained on your memory. And if giving them a title which will leap out at you from the relative…
William McIlvanney interview
12 Feb 2007
The big man
The publication of William McIlvanney’s novel Weekend was like welcoming an old friend home after a very long holiday, and finding that the time away has left them in extremely rude health.
Jed Mercurio interview
12 Feb 2007
Scaling the heights
As someone who knows all about living up to a legacy, F1 racing driver Damon Hill once said: ‘Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.’ It’s a sentiment that sits well with the protagonist of…
Aye Write! highlights
12 Feb 2007Write In
Raj Persaud With a twinkle in his eye, the dapper broadcaster, author and psychiatrist entertains with talk about seduction. It’s fine, though, you can trust him, he’s a doctor. Fri 16 Feb, 6pm.
Aye Write!
12 Feb 2007
Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Fri 16-Sun 25 Feb
BOOK FESTIVAL At times, it might seem like the world of children’s writing is a woman’s domain. You can barely move in the kids section of a book store without bumping into a whole shelf dedicated to JK Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine or Lauren…
Scots writers to look out for this year
12 Feb 2007
New Chapters
Rhona Cameron The Naked Drinking Club Having dipped her toe into the literary pool with her Musselburgh memoir 1979, the stand-up comic and reality TV survivor returns with a fictional tale of a twentysomething Edinburgher getting lost and loaded…
Norman Mailer
12 Feb 2007
The Castle in the Forest (Little, Brown)
HISTORICAL FICTION No one should deny Norman Mailer’s right to create novels about whatever the hell he wants. Much gnashing of teeth has already occurred in Germany over an octogenarian alpha male from Massachusetts writing about the darkest days of…
Jennifer McCartney - in love with literary Glasgow
12 Feb 2007
Staying afloat
The photograph on the cover of Jennifer McCartney’s first novel, Afloat, has the author sitting on a bench holding two small oranges. ‘I needed a picture and only had six to choose from,’ she says. ‘It was taken in Rome in the Vatican Orange Garden. We…
* Hitlist
12 Feb 2007Hitlist
Aye Write! A host of big names come to Glasgow for this festival which is now a crucial date in the literary diary. The likes of Howard Marks (pictured), Simon Armitage, Michael Buerk, Sue Cook, David Blunkett and Steve Bell all feature. Mitchell…
Winsor McCay
12 Feb 2007
Editorial Works (Checker BPG)
NEWS/REPORTAGE Better known for his groundbreaking 1930s animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (a film so exquisitely animated that it upped the game for Disney at the time), and comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend…
Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neil, Jesus Redondo & Bryan Talbot
12 Feb 2007
The Complete Nemesis the Warlock Book 1 (Rebellion
SCI-FI Rebellion continues its gorgeous repackaging of classic 2000AD stories. And Nemesis the Warlock is perhaps one of the greatest stories to ever grace the pages of the erstwhile sci-fi compendium, being a biting satire of racial intolerance and…
Steven Hall
12 Feb 2007
The Raw Shark Texts (Canongate)
ADVENTURE TALE There are not many authors who can say their first novel had such an effect on Nicole Kidman she begged to be allowed to star in a movie adaptation. That’s the impact Steven Hall’s debut is having. Already hailed as an ‘instant…
Antony Johnston
12 Feb 2007
Dreams of Inan: Stealing Life (Abaddon)
SCI-FI DRAMA Antony Johnston The publishers behind British sci-fi comic 2000AD continue their new imprint Abaddon Books, where prose takes centre stage over the words and pictures of their core title. Abaddon specialises in large scale series’…
Edward Dolnick
12 Feb 2007
Stealing the Scream (Icon Books)
ART HISTORY The title of Edward Dolnick’s light-hearted look at art history is misleading. This is less about the theft of Munch’s classic The Scream and more the tale of its saviour: policeman Charley Hill. The author worked with Hill to get the…
Lynne Truss
12 Feb 2007
A Certain Age (Profile Books)
MONOLOGUES The word ‘monologue’ conjures up two possibilities. The first is a droning, nondescript, shadowed face. The other is some heavily made-up and overly dramatic individual, unconcerned with masking anything, and most likely shouting. Taken…
Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso
12 Feb 2007
100 Bullets: Decayed (Vertigo/Titan)
CRIME Now possibly three-quarters of the way into this cracking crime drama (this tenth volume collects issues 68 through 75 of what’s perhaps going to be a double dead-eye 100), it’s clear just what an enormously impressive feat of writing 100…
Harvey Pekar
12 Feb 2007
Ego and Hubris (Ballantine Books)
BIOGRAPHY/LIFE STORY Meet Michael Malice - childhood immigrant, dreamer, short-ass and egotist. In some ways he’s just another mildly schizophrenic man, raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, but to Pekar (the graphic novel’s greatest navel gazer) he is…
