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  • The South Side
    Moira Burgess
    The south side isn’t just a location, a neighbourhood, an area on a city map. In these brilliantly perceptive novellas, all set in Glasgow, it stands for the flip-side of the psyche, the darkness behind the façade. The title story, The South Side, with its echoes of the Bible John murders, finds Matthew, newly widowed and remarried, glimpsing and trying to deny events from his ...
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  • The Day Before Tomorrow
    Moira Burgess
    In the fast disappearing slums of the Claggans district of a big Scottish city, only a few tenements still stand. In this strange half-world a small group of men and women live out one hot summer week of their lives. Experience is heightened by the presence of a maniac among them - a man whom some of them at least must know, a sex killer who already has his eye on his next vict...
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  • Speak, Adam
    Moira Burgess
    Speak, Adam, formerly published as A Rumour of Strangers in 1987, is the second novel by the literary historian, Moira Burgess. Returning to her former home area of Argyll, Speak, Adam is set in the gossiping town of ’Finavay’ where little escapes the notice of the local tongues. The arrival then of highly-strung Christa Beresford and her husband Billy, who are attempting to op...
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  • Mitchison’s Ghosts
    Moira Burgess
    This groundbreaking book, an important contribution to Naomi Mitchison criticism,examines three novels,The Bull Calves (1947), The Big House (1950) and Lobsters on the Agenda (1952),and a selection of short stories, with particular regard to the supernatural, fairy-tale and mythical content which is a recurrent element in her work. Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was a highly ...
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