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I was born in Glasgow in 1959 and although throughout my life I have lived in most parts of Scotland I have found myself continually drawn back to the "friendly city" where I now live quietly on the outskirts with my wife.

My writing career began at school and I continue to write and publish poetry to this day. During the nineties I experienced a length period of writer's block - it lasted two years - then one day I sat down and started writing. Twenty-one pages left I had the bare bones of a novel, Living with the Truth.

Since then I've started to broaden my horizons completing two plays and a decent body of short stories. I am currently trying to decide if I'm writing my sixth novel or just kidding myself.

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The Silence of Gethsemane

…ecce homo…­ – John 19:5 (Latin Vulgate)

Basically there are three kinds of novels: novels where everything is made up (e.g. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), historical novels where the author aims to be as accurate as possible and often goes to great lengths to research the topic under discussion (e.g. Wolf Hall) and then there are the novels that are based on an historical event but play fast...

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Published on May 19, 2013 04:00
Average rating: 4.25 · 71 ratings · 31 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
Living with the Truth
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008
Milligan and Murphy
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011
Stranger than Fiction
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009
This Is Not About What You ...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010
The Whole Truth
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
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4.81 of 5 stars 4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012
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Living with the Truth (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: A novel about a old bookseller who finds himself forced to spend two days with the personification of truth.

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Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
Antwerp
by Roberto Bolaño
read in May, 2013
From what I’ve read I can see that Bolaño is a writer worth reading, just perhaps not this novel, not until one has read most of his later work which, at this point, I have not. It’s called a novella but it’s really more a collection of loosely—and I...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Woman by Richard Matheson
Woman
by Richard Matheson
read in May, 2013
This is an odd book. It starts off looking like one thing—I was reminded of, of all things, the TV play Abigail’s Party—and then seems to be heading in a completely different direction—an Outer Limits/Tales of the Unexpected-type scenario—before endi...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco
Without Blood
by Alessandro Baricco
read in May, 2013
As I started to read this novella I got the feeling I’d read it before but I couldn’t find the book on any of my shelves and yet I was sure this was not the first time I’d read it. The premise is a simply enough one: a young girl, Nina, in a hiding p...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
I’ve never read Lolita. It’s always puzzled me that the book has managed to hold its own against its detractors especially nowadays where people are far more aware of and sensitive to what’s actually going on in the world. I can see why some people w...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
Being There
by Jerzy Kosiński
read in May, 2013
I saw the film first. It is a very good film and also—now that I’ve read the book I can attest to this—an excellent adaptation which it ought to be as Kosinski also wrote the screenplay; the only thing I think was missed was the encounter with the ho...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Behold the Man
by Michael Moorcock
read in May, 2013
Amazingly I knew next to nothing about this book before I picked it up and deliberately didn’t seek to remedy that before I read the book which was a wise decision. I didn’t have to wait long to see where the book was going. The third paragraph on th...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Point Omega
by Don DeLillo
read in May, 2013
The politics of this story bypassed me. This, for me, was a story about waiting and watching. It’s academic that the central figure is a filmmaker because he could just as easily have been a writer. I didn’t see 24 Hour Psycho when it was in Glasgow...more
Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
I’ve been a fan of Richard Brautigan for a long time. I’ve read all his novels and as many of his short stories and poems that I can lay my hands on. He never disappoints. Some works are better than others but when you’re caught up reading him you’re...more
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