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PUBLISHER: The Common Breath

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781916064102

RRP: £7.00

PAGES: 102

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 3, 2019

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Good Listeners

Alan Warner

Brian Hamill

These stories move from Mull’s windswept beaches to the darkened backroom of a Glasgow strip-club, from night-time on snow-covered slopes to the claustrophobia of a bizarre bus journey, but what develops through the differences in setting and style is a shared commitment to local culture and language, to warm humour, and most of all, to listening for the characters to emerge and express themselves on the page.

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