ARGONAUT BOOKS

Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won the Guardian Fiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Post's Best First Work. Reviews 'One of the few novels about writers and writing that actually contributes something fresh and different where most are simply self-indulgent'The List - Rodge Glass'An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seaso...Read More