Brendan Gisby
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Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
In My Own Words:
Brendan Gisby was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, halfway through the 20th century, and was brought up just along the road in South Queensferry (the Ferry) in the shadow of the world-famous Forth Bridge. He and his long-suffering wife and muse, Alison, presently live in splendid isolation in the wilds of the Trossachs in Scotland. Retiring from a business career in 2007, Brendan has devoted himself … Read moreBrendan Gisby was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, halfway through the 20th century, and was brought up just along the road in South Queensferry (the Ferry) in the shadow of the world-famous Forth Bridge. He and his long-suffering wife and muse, Alison, presently live in splendid isolation in the wilds of the Trossachs in Scotland.
Retiring from a business career in 2007, Brendan has devoted himself to writing. To date, he has published three novels, three biographies and several short story collections, details of all of which can be viewed on this site.
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Mark Frankland is a remarkable author. One of the few to dare to use a work of fiction to tackle head-on the subject of The Troubles of Northern Ireland, he has penned a comprehensive, warts-and-all and even-handed account of that long, internecine conflict. In writing Terrible Beauty, he might well have incurred the wrath of either side of the sectarian divide - or, indeed, of both sides. But Mark Frankland is also a remarkable storyteller, because he pulls off the impossible. In a narrative spanning more than three decades and interspersed with actual events and real people, he weaves together with fairness and precision, and always with confidence, the parallel life stories… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Okay, my hands are up. You've caught me. It's a fair cop, guv. I admit it. I've been a Fairtrade shunner. You see, up until now I've been under the impression that Fairtrade was one of those mantras intoned by the green-wellyboot-wearing, Barbour-jacket-sporting, African-trinket-shopping brigade. You know the brigade I mean: the comfortable, well-fed, middle-class pseudo-hippy types who invented PC. I actually thought Fairtrade was PC. And I don't do PC. Then I read this little collection of short stories, and I'm now an avid supporter of Fairtrade. I learned more from the stories than I would ever have from any amount of haughty pronouncements by the… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
If you are one of those readers who simply devours fiction - you know the kind of fiction I mean: clichéd romances and thrillers, with stereotypical characters and pedestrian writing - then this book is NOT for you. "Another World is Possible" is for those who want something different to read, something challenging, something authentic. In short, it is a book for thinkers. Those words "different", "challenging" and "authentic" sum up the book. It is constructed like a set of Russian dolls: there are puzzles within riddles within a conundrum. The overarching conundrum is, of course, whether Roisin really is the lovechild of Che Guevara. I'll say no more about that,… Read more
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