Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor

Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor

Glasgow: The Autobiographytells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium.

'Alan Taylor deserves praise for his nous and nose …and has given it laldy' 

-- Stewart Conn * The TLS *

'[Alan Taylor] lays bare the city’s glorious contradictionsGlasgow: The Autobiography is his gift to us' 

-- Kevin McKenna * The National *

'If you know and love Glasgow, you'll love it. If you don't, you'll love it. It's a fine treasure-house – and even Glaswegians may learn something new from it'

-- Allan Massie * Scotsman *

'a book with an enduring quality that you feel you will want to return to again and again ... the ideal book for anyone who lives or works in Glasgow, or has ever been to the city, or who has family roots there'

* Undiscovered Scotland *

'These collected writings allowed me to dip here and there to uncover one unknown after another about my beloved Glasgow'

-- Frank McAveety, Leader, Glasgow City Council

Alan Taylor has been a journalist for over 30 years. He was deputy and managing editor at the Scotsman, and for the last 15 years has been Writer-at-Large for the Sunday Herald. He has contributed to numerous publications, including The TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited three acclaimed anthologies - The Assassin's Cloak (2000), The Secret Annexe (2004) and The Country Dairies (2009).

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ISBN 13	9781780274812
ISBN 10	1780274815
Titel	Glasgow: The Autobiography
Autor	Alan Taylor
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Birlinn General
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-09-07
Seitenanzahl	368
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