ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is the re-issue of the powerful portrait of a heroic figure in a Scottish mining town before the Great Depression, which won the Whitbread Award in 1975. Reviews Intense, witty and beautifully wroughtTelegraphHe has a hard muscular quality to his writing . . . His phrases hammer against you like a collier's pickThe TimesHere a human history is mined with humour and a clenching sense of its sombre inequities: man's squat but lengthening shadow in the sunGuardianWilliam McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful...Read More