An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland. It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and a ...
NILSEN said. “Sure you do. You’ve been outspoken about it. It’s your honestly held, reasonably argued opinion that there was a miscarriage of justice. That a man was found guilty of something he didn’t do. And behind that, you’ve said, there was subterfuge, suppressed evidence, political pressure...
Single-sided, a lot of them. One-versations. Nobody talking back, or you to yourself. Years, decades of dialogue, monologue. Thousands, tens of thousands of words. Millions. And who gives a fuck? You don’t yourself but that doesn’t stop the words battering round the inner wall of your skull. Aye ...