Stonemouth
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780349000206 (0349000204)
Publish date: January 3rd 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Culture,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Dark,
Scotland
This is one of those odd books that I found enjoyable to read at the time, but when I put it down, I lapsed into so-what? apathy. The premise is a fairly trite one. A mid-twenties man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, and spends the time reminiscing about growing up, being astonished at t...
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
Stonemouth is a stuffy small Scottish town, dominated by two competing, although not hostile, local gangster families. This is where the unbelievably annoying, egocentric and know-it-all protagonist, Stewart Gilmour, returns to attend the funeral of the old head of one of these families and to, unin...
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
bookshelves: radio-4, spring-2012, fradio, published-2012, gangsters, britain-scotland, recreational-drugs Read from March 17 to 31, 2012 Book at Bedtime : Stewart Gilmour returns home to Stonemouth after fleeing five years ago.bbc synopsis - Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five yea...
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