When a young Ayrshire band unexpectedly hits the big time with the
smash hit record of 1984, everything looks rosy, despite their
delusional young manager and a thwarted plot to kidnap Boy George.
What could possibly go wrong? The riotously funny, heartwarming,
and deeply poignant second book in the bestselling Disco Days
Trilogy. ***Now adapted for the stage by Scotland's Borderline
Theatre Co. and the Ayr Gaiety theatre*** 'This band would
definitely bring on Stockholm Syndrome' Boy George 'An astonishing
tour de force' John Niven 'A great white-knuckle read set in the
world of hope, dreams and DIY pop' Stuart Cosgrove
------------------------ The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas
is the timeless story of the quest for pop immortality. When a
young Ayrshire band miraculously hits the big time with the smash
hit record of 1984, international stardom beckons. That's despite
having a delusional teenage manager propelled by a dark, malign
voice in his head... Can Max Mojo's band of talented social misfits
repeat the success and pay back the mounting debts accrued from an
increasingly agitated cartel of local gangsters? Or will they have
to kidnap Boy George and hope for the best? Featuring much-loved
characters from the international bestseller, The Last Days of
Disco, this is an absurdly funny, riotously ambitious and deeply
human story of small-town rivalries, music, confused adolescence
and, above all, hope, from one of Scotland's finest new voices.
------------------------ Praise for David F. Ross 'This is a book
that might just make you cry like nobody's watching' Iain MacLeod,
Sunday Mail 'Warm, funny and evocative' Chris Brookmyre 'Crucially
Ross's novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can
leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour
within a few sentences' Press & Journal 'More than just a
nostalgic recreation of the author's youth, it's a compassionate,
affecting story of a family in crisis at a time of upheaval and
transformation, when disco wasn't the only thing whose days were
numbered' Herald Scotland 'Ross creates beautifully rounded
characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope. It will
make you laugh. It will make you cry. It s rude, keenly observed
and candidly down to earth' Liam Rudden, Scotsman 'There's a
bittersweet poignancy to David F. Ross's debut novel, The Last Days
of Disco' Edinburgh Evening News 'Full of comedy, pathos and great
tunes' Hardeep Singh Kohli 'Dark, hilarious and heartbreaking'
Muriel Gray 'If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even
looking at what was inside' Irvine Welsh 'Like the vinyl that
crackles off every page ... as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at
his very best' Nick Quantrill 'A solid-gold hit of a book! The
closest you'll ever get to being on Top of the Pops' Colin McCredie
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