by NRB | 5 Dec 2024 | Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 2 Jun 2022 | Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 19 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction |
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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