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This short story collection is about life in a small Scottish town; the drinks and the drunks, the highs and the lows, the girls and the boys, most importantly the music and the fitba'.Gordon Legge has a real knack of writing about characters and events, so much so that you find yourself believing that these characters exist and what Legge is actually writing is snapshots of his own life. While he depicts Scottish life with all its positives and negatives it is done with a real love of this gallus nation that shines through the stories. The first story, Summers on the Dole, really shows what it means to have and be a mate and how life gets in the way (not bad for two pages!) "The Big Man recalled the stories and The Tank made them funny. Hamish claimed to have done it all and Stuart looked like he had. Wendy never shut up and Grant hardly said a word: Wee Harry's the smartest guy you'd ever meet and Mikey's brains were in his dick.There were nutters to be avoided, hangers-on to be ignored and casualties to be dumped"
After a violent and tragic incident at their high school, a group of school pupils are sent on a retreat. The school sees this as a valuable opportunity to get over these events and bond, the pupils see it as a valuable opportunity to get drunk and bond in ways the school may not approve of. Meanwhile at a top secret research base, something has been discovered that means that this retreat will not go to plan for anybody...
I have always read Christopher Brookmyre for the biting sarcasm and great plots, I never thought I would read him for all out scares. I started this book on Friday and stayed up all night to finish it! I even read the last chapter to find out what happens! It is like a chocolate eclair - the good stuff is not only in the surface horror but the deeper themes; to think about; religion, ethics, love, sex, relationships and the way we treat others and all included in this book. It also has an ending that does not disappoint! Most books I have read so far this year I have enjoyed this one I devoured...
Pain multiplies. It multiples in little ways, like Julie Meiklejohn going from bullied to bully, and in enormous ways, like Robert Barker's rage, the aftershocks of which they are all still suffering.
Kane looks at the tears forming in Guthrie's eyes, and at the sorrowful understanding in Sendak's, and wonders whether compassion can multiply too.
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This short story collection is about life in a small Scottish town; the drinks and the drunks, the highs and the lows, the girls and the boys, most importantly the music and the fitba'.
