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ANDREW O’HAGAN Caledonian Road. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey

ANDREW O’HAGAN Caledonian Road. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey

by NRB | 5 Dec 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

This new novel from the author of Mayflies is set in London, but Glasgow is never far away. Andrew O’Hagan is again drawing upon his Glaswegian background for Caledonian Road, with characters who are slightly similar and far more sinister than those in his previous...
DOUGLAS STUART Young Mungo. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

DOUGLAS STUART Young Mungo. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 2 Jun 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

The author of the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain returns to the streets of Glasgow in his second novel. This is a grim but compelling coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, set over a year in Glasgow. The book opens as Mungo looks up at his mother’s window as he passes...
NORMAN SWAN So You Think You Know What’s Good For You? Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

NORMAN SWAN So You Think You Know What’s Good For You? Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 19 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Dr Norman Swan investigates the evidence for common assumptions we make about what is and isn’t good for our health. Despite its 432 pages, a brief description of Swan’s book could be ‘a health compendium for busy people’. Part memoir, part handbook, it ranges...
             

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