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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

ISBN: 9781838859855

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 336

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 10, 2025

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To the Dogs

Jim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a big man at the university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two healthy children. Jim drives an Audi, and his dog is a pedigree bichon frisé. Not bad for the son of a hardman who grew up in a room and kitchen.

But for every person who’s watched his progress and wanted to hitch a lift, there’s someone else desperate to drag him back down. When his son Elliot is arrested on drugs charges, Jim is approached by men he thought he had left safely in his past. Their demands threaten his family, students and reputation.

As the pressure mounts, Jim discovers he is more like his father than he thought. The question is, how far will Professor Jim Brennan go to save the life he built?

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Louise Welsh

After Graduating from Glasgow University, Louise Welsh realised she had serious aspirations to become a novelist; these were at odds, however, with the need to earn a living. After setting up and running a second hand bookshop for most of her twenties, she composed The Cutting Room, obviously drawing from her experiences dealing with Glasgow’s colourful and eclectic community to create controversial yet realistic characters and bring them to life beautifully for her readers. This début novel was awarded the John Creasey Dagger and shared the Saltire First Book Award. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize and is included in the Stonewall honour book in the USA.

Her second book, Tamburlaine Must Die, was published in 2004 and received much critical acclaim; The Bullet Trick was published in July 2006. Her forth novel is the mystery thriller Naming the Bones, published in 2010.

In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year.

Louise Welsh lives in Glasgow with her partner, the writer Zoë Strachan.