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No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy [Paperback]

Colin MacFarlane
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (4 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845964233
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845964238
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.1 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 214,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The entertaining sequel to the top Scottish seller The Real Gorbals Story

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In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again.

In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.


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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An excellent sequel 16 Nov 2008
By Tomvox
Format:Paperback
Colin's followup to his successful "The Real Gorbals Story" charts the growth of a young Glasgow tearaway to an educated young man. He has retained the black humour of the first book with the rich Glasgow characters wonderfully observed. He is open about his personal failings and this book shows that even those young people that we still condemn today as hopeless can be guided to excel within themselves. I can easily see these books as successful films (that would no doubt have Glasgow City Council up in arms about the negative portrayal of the city). To those who grew up in the Glasgow of the 60's it is an evocative description of what it really was like to live in a city that has never lost it's character (or it's characters).
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No mean Glasgow 16 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback
Bought as a gift for my husband who is from Glasgow and now living in Wales. He thinks the book is fantastic and the service from Amazon is as excellent as ever.
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Fantastic Read 3 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback
A real must for any Glaswegian. I could not put the book down, it was such a great read. Brought back lots of memories of my childhood in Glasgow.
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