Fairy Rock

Stephen Watt

Glasgow is correctly lauded for its wonderful characters and hospitality but at the turn of the Millennium it was dubbed the ‘Murder Capital of Europe’ with sectarian divisions and organised crime rife in the city. Four of its natives have been raised around the city’s Bridgeton area, cultivated by its ill-omened beliefs, and now have to separately find a way to subsist. But one crime family firmly believes in the tradition of torture and a novel way of disposing of its detractors. Who will emerge smelling of roses—or end up pushing the roses up from the earth below?

Reviews of Fairy Rock

‘This is crime fiction in the raw. So noir that even the white bits are black. Stephen Watt’s verse brilliantly reclaims crime writing for the streets in a visceral, eye-watering yet poignant social commentary that knows its mark and hits like a kick in the stanes or a smack in the gub. Never mess with poets.’ Craig Robertson