The Big Man
- 2 Jan 2014
- 9781782113027
- £9.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 2 Jan 2014
- 9781782111955
- £7.99
- 272 pp
In a few words
‘Like Docherty, another masterpiece’ The Scotsman
In a few words
‘Like Docherty, another masterpiece’ The Scotsman
Inspiring and harshly funny. As in Orwell at his fiercest best, McIlvanney's outrage is all the more potent for being tranquil. Grand fiction that reads as truly as fact
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and very readable
Inspiring and harshly funny. As in Orwell at his fiercest best, McIlvanney's outrage is all the more potent for being tranquil. Grand fiction that reads as truly as fact
A vivid transcription of a small town and the people who live there . . . Wry, funny, tender, largely unsentimental and very readable
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AS SEEN IN THE BIG MAN STARRING LIAM NEESON
The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.
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AS SEEN IN THE MOTION PICTURE STARRING LIAM NEESON
The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact.
Confirms his reputation as the most incisive observer of working-class Scottish life
Confirms his reputation as the most incisive observer of working-class Scottish life
William McIlvanney
View profileWilliam McIlvanney‘s first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald’s People’s Prize. He died in December 2015.
William McIlvanney
View profileWilliam McIlvanney‘s first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald’s People’s Prize. He died in December 2015.
