The Dear Green Place

Set in 1960s Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions.

This classic of Scottish twentieth-century literature is an absorbing and moving story, with vivid descriptions of the city around Mat; it remains as authentic and relevant nearly fifty years on.

Reviews of The Dear Green Place

'One of the few novels about writers and writing that actually contributes something fresh and different where most are simply self-indulgent' — Rodge Glass * The List * 'An exciting first novel worth a dozen more seasoned efforts' * Guardian * 'The only other twentieth-century novel I know that places a writer?s struggle in an equally well imagined city is Nabokov?s novel The Gift' — Alasdair Gray 'The best novel ever written' * The Skinny * 'A touching insight into human strength and frailty' * Daily Mail * 'It remains the quintessential Glasgow novel and one of the greatest portrayals of the struggle of the artist ever written' — Gavin Wallace 'A seminal novel of working man's aspiration' * Publishing News *