Hometown Tales: Glasgow

Hardback

Main Details

Title Hometown Tales: Glasgow
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kirsty Logan
By (author) Paul McQuade
SeriesHometown Tales
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 207,Width 139
Category/GenreMemoirs
Local interest, family history and nostalgia
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781474606004
ClassificationsDewey:941.44
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 28 June 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home. In these pages on Glasgow, you'll find two unique memoirs. 'The Old Asylum in the Woods' is an intimate, intensely moving account of growing up in the shadow of Woodilee Hospital by author of The Gracekeepers and The Gloaming, Kirsty Logan. 'Glasgow Sang' is a deeply personal journey on foot through the city, from Kelvin Way Bridge to George Square to the statue of La Pasionaria, by Paul McQuade.

Author Biography

Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels The Gloaming and The Gracekeepers, the short story collections A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, and the flash fiction chapbook The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive. Her books have won the Lambda Literary Award, the Polari First Book Prize, the Saboteur Award, the Scott Prize and the Gavin Wallace Fellowship, and been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. Her short fiction and poetry has been translated into Japanese, Spanish and Italian, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries, and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife. Paul McQuade is a writer and translator from Glasgow, Scotland. His work has most recently been published in Structo, Little Fiction, the anthology Out There, and has been shortlisted for The White Review and Bridport prizes. He is the recipient of the Sceptre Prize for New Writing and the Austrian Cultural Forum Prize.