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From the award-winning author comes a much-anticipated sequel to
the Scottish Crime Book of the Year The Quaker... Glasgow 1975 A
deadly fire An arson attack on a Glasgow warehouse causes the
deaths of a young mother and child. Police suspect it's the latest
act in a brutal gang warfare that's tearing the city apart - one
that DI Duncan McCormack has been tasked with stopping. A brutal
murder Five years ago he was walking on water as the cop who
tracked down a notorious serial killer. But he made powerful
enemies and when a mutilated body is found in a Tradeston slum,
McCormack is assigned a case that no one wants. The dead man is
wearing a masonic ring, though, and Duncan realizes the victim is
not the down-and-out his boss had first assumed. A catastrophic
explosion As McCormack looks into both crimes, the investigations
are disrupted by a shocking event. A bomb rips through a pub packed
with people - and a cop is killed in the blast. The cases are
stacking up and with one of his own unit now dead, McCormack is in
the firing line. But he's starting to see a thread - one that
connects all three attacks...
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The Heretic (Paperback)
Liam McIlvanney
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R521
R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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The Quaker is watching you... In the chilling new crime novel from
award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the
streets of Glasgow and DI McCormack follows a trail of secrets to
uncover the truth... Winner of the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for
Scottish Crime Book of the Year A city torn apart. It is 1969 and
Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial killer spreading
fear throughout the city. The Quaker has taken three women from the
same nightclub and brutally murdered them in the backstreets. A
detective with everything to prove. Now, six months later, the
police are left chasing a ghost, with no new leads and no hope of
catching their prey. They call in DI McCormack, a talented young
detective from the Highlands. But his arrival is met with anger
from a group of officers on the brink of despair. A killer who
hunts in the shadows. Soon another woman is found murdered in a
run-down tenement flat. And McCormack follows a trail of secrets
that will change the city - and his life - forever...
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The Heretic (Paperback)
Liam McIlvanney
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R330
R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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From the award-winning author comes a much-anticipated sequel to
the Scottish Crime Book of the Year The Quaker... Glasgow 1975 A
deadly fire An arson attack on a Glasgow warehouse causes the
deaths of a young mother and child. Police suspect it's the latest
act in a brutal gang warfare that's tearing the city apart - one
that DI Duncan McCormack has been tasked with stopping. A brutal
murder Five years ago he was walking on water as the cop who
tracked down a notorious serial killer. But he made powerful
enemies and when a mutilated body is found in a Tradeston slum,
McCormack is assigned a case that no one wants. The dead man is
wearing a masonic ring, though, and Duncan realizes the victim is
not the down-and-out his boss had first assumed. A catastrophic
explosion As McCormack looks into both crimes, the investigations
are disrupted by a shocking event. A bomb rips through a pub packed
with people - and a cop is killed in the blast. The cases are
stacking up and with one of his own unit now dead, McCormack is in
the firing line. But he's starting to see a thread - one that
connects all three attacks...
Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique
culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion
and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes
masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and
global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world.
This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference
work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the
pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. Essays focus on
key periods and movements (the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish
Romanticism, the Scottish Renaissance), genres (the historical
novel, Scottish Gothic, 'Tartan Noir') and major authors (Burns,
Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and Spark). A chronology and guides to
further reading in each chapter make this an ideal overview of a
national literature that continues to develop its own distinctive
style.
After three years in the wilderness, hardboiled reporter Gerry
Conway is back at his desk at the Glasgow Tribune. But three years
is a long time on newspapers and things have changed - readers are
dwindling, budgets are tightening, and the Trib's once rigorous
standards are slipping. Once the paper's star reporter, Conway now
plays second fiddle to his former protege, crime reporter Martin
Moir. But when Moir goes AWOL as a big story breaks, Conway is
dispatched to cover a gangland shooting. And when Moir's body turns
up in a flooded quarry, Conway is drawn deeper into the city's
criminal underworld as he looks for the truth about his colleague's
death. Braving the hostility of gangsters, ambitious politicians
and his own newspaper bosses, Conway discovers he still has what it
takes to break a big story. But this is a story not everyone wants
to hear as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games and the
country gears up for a make-or-break referendum on independence. In
this, the second book in the Conway Trilogy, McIlvanney explores
the murky interface of crime and politics in the new Scotland.
When Glasgow journalist Gerry Conway receives a phone call
promising unsavoury information about Scottish Justice Minister
Peter Lyons, his instinct is that this apparent scoop won't warrant
space in The Tribune. But as Conway's curiosity grows and his leads
proliferate, his investigation takes him from Scotland to Belfast.
Shocked by the sectarian violence of the past, and by the prejudice
and hatred he encounters even now, Conway soon grows obsessed with
the story of Lyons and all he represents. And as he digs deeper, he
comes to understand that there is indeed a story to be uncovered;
and that there are people who will go to great lengths to ensure
that it remains hidden. Compelling, vividly written and shocking,
ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TOWN is not only the story of an individual
and his community - it is also a complex and thrilling inquiry into
loyalty, betrayal and duty.
There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of
literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative
criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as
novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially
commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIlvanney - on
the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing together some of the
most strenuous and perceptive critics of the present moment and
putting them in contact with some of the finest novels of the past
three decades, it examines what the novel does and what kinds of
truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What is
it about the language used in a novel that creates a world
different from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular
novel emplify this? These questions can be answered by the careful
examination of particular great works by strong evaluative critics.
Robert Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa
Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's
American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in
this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.
Brings together leading critics and novelists with some of the
finest contemporary novels to answer probing questions about the
role of the modern novel.
Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique
culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion
and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes
masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and
global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world.
This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference
work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the
pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. Essays focus on
key periods and movements (the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish
Romanticism, the Scottish Renaissance), genres (the historical
novel, Scottish Gothic, 'Tartan Noir') and major authors (Burns,
Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and Spark). A chronology and guides to
further reading in each chapter make this an ideal overview of a
national literature that continues to develop its own distinctive
style.
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