Glasgow by the Way, but: Celebrating a City by John Cairney

Title	:	Glasgow by the Way, but: Celebrating a City
Author	:	John Cairney
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ISBN	:	1905222505
ISBN-10	:	9781905222506
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	200
Publication	:	First published November 1, 2006

Do you love going to the pictures? Live for the seasons Old Firm match? Have a rerr singer in the family? Long to dance under the stars in the Barras ballroom? Is your idea of a local hero Lobby Dosser? And who needs Bob Dylan when you have Matt McGinn? In this collection of personal anecdotes, John Cairney takes you on a tour of his Glasgow, introducing the people and places that have shaped it. Full of the humour, tension and patter that characterises Scotlands most charismatic city, everyone will be sure to find a part of their own Glasgow reflected in Cairneys honest evocation of his home city. Glasgow by the way, but is the written tribute Glasgow has been waiting for, from one of its most famous sons.

John Cairney - John Cairney has been a professional actor, writer, singer, director, producer, lecturer and painter. All of these aspects go into the making of the author of this novel. His first writing was autobiographical. This led him to biographies based on characters hed played in the theatre, such as Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. John has spent much of his life travelling, living for some time in New Zealand, but now having returned to his native Glasgow. John Cairney has been a professional actor, writer, singer, director, producer, lecturer and painter. All of these aspects go into the making of the author of this novel. His first writing was autobiographical. This led him to biographies based on characters he'd played in the theatre, such as Robert Burns, R...

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