Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster

Biographies & Memoirs

Scott, Andrew Murray

Arts & Literature

Small Pr Distribution

By the banks of a mighty river, the interconnecting lives of estuary dwellers flood and ebb, as a new property development threatens to turn their local idyll into a massive riverfront development. A man who cannot face his hometown after ten years in London sleeps in the woods at the mouth of the estuary, watching events unfold. Starkly realistic yet blackly comic, "Estuary Blue" is a satiric portrait of a city in flux.

Estuary Blue

Literature & Fiction

Polygon

Bonnie Dundee: John Grahame of Claverhouse

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

J. Donald

<p>John Grahame of Claverhouse is to some, "Bonnie Dundee", military tactician and, according to Dean Swift, "the best man in Scotland". To others, he was the diabolical, "Bluidy Claivers", who was slain by a silver bullet at the battle of Killiecrankie. It is these two extremes that make Dundee one of the most compelling and romantic characters of Scottish history. He was the very center of power and influence during the late 17th century, and his heroic death, at the head of his charging troops, ensured his name in legend.</p>

Bonnie Dundee: John Graham of Claverhouse

Historical

John Donald

Dundee's Literary Lives: Vol. 1 Nineteenth Century ([Publication] / Abertay Historical Society)

Abertay Historical Society

This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the celebrated - and notorious - author of Young Adam and Cain's Book. It was highly influential, led to the reprinting of his novels and inspired a wave of new writers to discover Trocchi for themselves. A story of heartbreak and pain, the minutiae of squalor, tragedy, obsession, of chemical addictions, sexual experimentations, promiscuity and desertion, suicide - and literary genius. So begins this account of one of Britain's most remarkable literary figures. It traces his childhood in war-time Glasgow, his literary apprenticeship in Paris with Beckett, Ionesco and Sartre, his move to New York then Venice Beach among the leaders of the Beat movement. Trocchi charmed and haunted all who met him. ... a strange and saddening book... Trocchi... experimenting with drugs and sex...left behind a trail of wrecked lives ... at least he has been lucky in this excellent biography which conveys something of his charm and charisma." COLIN WILSON, Literary Review

Humor & Entertainment

Kennedy & Boyd

Britain's Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo-American State

Politics & Social Sciences

Macleay, Iain

Politics & Government

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