books
, \ become as lamentable as the new IIUE’S aforementioned fantasies. (MF)
. CRIME FICTION ' ‘
CREATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY Frankie 30556, Comes DlSC uss 1011 Groups Prozac Diary . Home
iaLQLQam'Sh Hamllton Jerry Raine (Gollancz £9.99) it i @
Bridget Jones it ain’t. Nor should it be i ,. confused with Elizabeth Wurtzel’s
SCOTTISH FICTION DISCUSSION GROUP
Prozac Nation — self-indulgence is ‘ . ' ‘ . ' ' ' l I nowhere in this eloquent, informative " Sdmrddy 13m MdrCh at 1 “Odin ‘ r . ,. and intriguing combination of medical , .mmnmuwy...“ JANICE GALLOWAY S WHERE YOU HND II
report and personal account. CLASSICS DISCUSSION GROUP
P f. . When rozac was Irst Introduced, Thursday 18”] March at 6.30pm
relatively little was known about its , 1 , ‘ long-term effects, so when Slater EMILE ZOLA S THERE“; RAQUIN
began taking it in 1988 she was, in I effect, a guinea pig. This diary is an '_ account of ten years on the ’wonder l drug' and charts her transformation 1 from a depressive, compulsive, self- mutilating psychiatric disaster to a i ’normally' functioning person with an I
impressive list of accomplishments to TOP OSCAR DISCUSSIONS WITH CHAMPAGNE-[SH WINE her name — writer, lecturer, doctor of
psychology and director of her Clinic. 1 , . , SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY DISCUSSION GROUP This dramatic and SUdden leap from Wednesday 24th March at 7.30pm. madness to sanity brought its own ; You wouldn't want to fall into Jerry DAVID GEMMELLS HEROK. FANTASY LEGEND
problems — her sexuality, creativity, and Raine’s bad books, not even for the identity were substantially altered. slightest offence. ln Smal/t/me, his SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS’ WORKSHOP Thursday I 1th March and Thursday 25m March at 8pm
Slater’s experiences of coming to terms debut novel, an easy-going bloke finds
CONTEMPORARY FICTION DISCUSSION GROUP
Saturday 2()th March at 12.30pm. SEBASTIAN FAULK‘S BIRDSONG
FILM DISCUSSION GROUP Tuesday 23rd March at 7.30pm
with a life of relative normality are at ; himself at home among the criminal . . . . . . . , . times both painful and heartening but, underClass when he stalks the man who agiliom NIGHTLY WORKSHOP‘ WHLRL YOU ( AN Discuss YOUR above all, highly compelling. (KK) ' mugged him. In its follow-up, Frank/e I Bosser Comes Home, an accidental - . .- - . CONTEMPORARY MYSTERY : splash from a van going through a i, 1 off ollfeaturcd discussron group titles The Houdnu 6'” I puddle is enough to trigger a Spire” of ' untrl the date ofthe group meeting Martyn Bedford (Viking {1399) 5 events leading to multiple murder. l t t i Raine suggests that a dangerous,
1 often deadly, world exists a short breath
away from our everyday lives, and that , ; it only takes a seemingly I
inconsequential act to break down the r safety barrier. Frank/e Bosser doesn’t I 0 I e I S cast as sharp an eye on its social
backdrop as its predecessor; it also fails to maintain as steady a level of excitement, forcing the plot to tread water during an overlong middle
SIMON CALLow AT THE GFT Friday 5th March at 6.30pm
; seal?“ between the dlYe-ln-headllrst ONE OF BRITAIN‘S GREATEST SCREEN ANI) STAGE ACTORS DIS— , (05$ch and casually Violent climax- I CUSSES HIS NEW BOOK LOVE Is WHERE IT FALLS
l ; SANDRA BROWN
5 POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY r Tu dd W M“ h at 7 n
CS ' ' C ' I
l Another Book To Burn: y p
DISCUSSING HER UNIQUE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE CHRONICLED
The State Of Scotland IN WHERE THERE IS EVIL JN Reill (ed) (Bootle editions £9.99) L e . . 1 1 *Y 9 JOHNNY RODGER . _ , , l Thursday 25th March at 7pm . . . _ ‘ - Somet'me? 't 59‘9er YOU Shou'd Judge CONTEMPORARY GLASGOW - THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ProfesSIonal prestIdIgItator (that’s 1 a book by Its cover. The caricature of a NINFTIFg magician to you and me) ’Red' meets f goose-stepping, fascist salute-waving ; J A hot-tempered Irish Rosa over a sleight- I Tony Blair which beams out from the E IAIN BANKS Of-hand trick in a pub in Oxford. A front of this collection is a pretty fair I Friday 76m Mmh great fuck becomes a greater sex life ; indication of the righteous anger l h ‘
, . . . . . . , DISCUSSING SONGBOOK, A SELECTION OF HIS FAVOURITE MUSIC and soon they re lIVIng together and present WIthIn Its pages. Unfortunately, ,
he's in love. When Rosa dies a year ; it’s also a clue to the level of subtlety in MONICA LEWINSKY later in suspicious Circumstances, Red is § the arguments put forth. devastated but grief is displaced by an Referring to industrialists en masse as l insatiable desire to discover the truth. ’parasites’, to trade unions as tame Unfortunately, his investigations unions (clever wording, cheers) or to l confirm his worst fears about his ex — a Peter Mandelson as ’Prince Of
Date to be confirmed SIGNING COPIES OF HER BIOGRAPHY WRI'I‘I‘EN BY ANDREW MORTON
double life, a past of sexual promiscuity Darkness’ smacks of hectoring rather — and put his own life in danger. than debate, and ultimately
A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's E undermines many of the points made. , ° prestigious Creative Writing MA, . The book Is at its best in the poetry, B O R D E R S
. . i Bedfords third novel plays on male I . . fantasises of the Madonna and the : Continued over page bOOks'musu°v'deo'cafi whore. Unfortunately, a run of the mill , murder mystery (with some tacked-on I * ***STAR KgT'NGSd' themes such as illusion and i * “1513" "‘9 - performance) outweighs the more I 111* 553%???“ - 98 BUCHANAN STREET, GLASGOW G 1 38A involved interrogation of the male l *ir So-so psyche and the proceedings soon * p00l’ 0 l 41 222 7700
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