Book description
In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane
detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful
characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the
time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had
left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an
attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job
as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he
soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he
had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to
integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved
to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in
trouble again.
In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful,
fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink
of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of
humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all
over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with
warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the
darkest of days.
Colin MacFarlane has written for a number of national newspapers,
including
Scotland on Sunday
, the
Sunday Times
and
The Sun.
