James Christie

Broschiertes Buch

The Legend of John Macnab

Beschreibung

John Sandiman is a librarian at a run-down Glasgow college full of feckless students and overseen by hopeless jobsworths. Fed up with his job, still mourning the cowardly way that Jessica, his ex-girlfriend, dumped him and bemoaning the apathy of the Scots, Sandiman dreams of the time when Caledonia was led by kings. So when Natalie, his colleague and drinking buddy, mentions something called The Book of Deer, he takes no notice. After all, there's little a librarian can do to change the world. Or is there? What Sandiman did not anticipate was that a fictional character from Scotland's past would come vibrantly to life, hurling him into a quest to face his own past and change his country's future. Spanning two millennia from the sea kingdom of Dalriada to the Scottish referendum of 1997, The Legend of John Macnab takes readers behind events they thought they knew and brings them face-to-face with a forgotten icon more splendid than the Stone of Destiny.

Autor

James Christie was born in South London in 1969, raised by a mum and dad who'd both met there in the early 60's. So, he says, when some twat asks him "Where do you really come from?" or even "Where do your parents come from?" his answer is still London.A lifelong punk-rocker and an aren't gig-goer. For years James kept a diary of the shows he went to and hassle he had as 'the only black kid at the show'.That's what his tongue-in-cheek, street-slang-filled, musical-history-diary, 'The Dark Chronicles' is all about.Since those heady days of punk rock and alternative lifestyle that he writes about, he has now calmed down, just a little. And, fed up with city life, he now lives as a 'grockle' in the countryside.Currently residing quite happily in deepest Somerset, in a small cottage by himself, although sharing it with umpteen woodlice and spiders (who are quite quick to point out that "We were 'ere first matey, an' we aint goin' nowhere, so tough."James confesses that he is quite madcap, and will likely always remain so, after years of watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kenny Everett, Benny Hill, lately Philomena Cunk, as well as anything Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson have ever appeared in.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chaplin Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781909183964
• ISBN-10: 1909183962
• Artikelnr.: 43917400