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DVD - The Big Sleep

(2 stars)4 Jun 2007

DETECTIVE THRILLER Dear Michael Winner. Why? Relocating a classic film noir from LA to London is bad enough, but to drag it kicking and screaming into the late 70s? Criminal. American private dick Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by the ailing…

Brond - Frederic Lindsay (1984)

Frederic Lindsay - Brond (1984)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

A political thriller, but a cut above the disposable airport novels of Tom Clancy, Brond throws a serpentine plot of political intrigue into central Scotland. After witnessing the mysterious Brond kill a child in Kelvingrove Park, student Robert is…

A Concussed History of Scotland - Frank Kuppner (1990)

Frank Kuppner - A Concussed History of Scotland (1990)

1 Jan 2005

The kind of exercise in post-modernity that makes traditionalists drop their monocles in disbelief at the self-indulgence of it all, A Concussed History of Scotland earned Kuppner huge critical acclaim but, perhaps understandably, didn’t trouble any…

Greenvoe - George Mackay Brown (1972)

George Mackay Brown - Greenvoe (1972)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Transposing the Orcadian rhythms of his critically-acclaimed poetry to a prose work which focuses on the dissipation of an island community proved a masterstroke for George Mackay Brown. In the absence of any real plot, we find ourselves embroiled in…

Chaim Bermant - Jericho Sleep Alone (1964)

Chaim Bermant - Jericho Sleep Alone (1964)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Part Bildungsroman, part hymn to the city of Glasgow, Jericho Sleep Alone is without a doubt the finest book written about the Scots-Jewish experience. From Bar Mitzvah to an unfulfilling teaching career, Jericho Eli Broock finds himself a perennial…

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