Shale Voices

Name: Shale Voices
Brand: Luath Press Ltd
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English

By (author): Alistair Findlay

From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale mining industry; of the people, communities and generations of families involved, and the cultural and political impact of the industry. Enlivened throughout with numerous photographs, drawings, poetry and short stories, this incredible history of human courage, endurance and endeavour will appeal to any reader with an interest in Scotland's social and cultural history.

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Weight: 480g
Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
Publication Date: 01 Mar 2010
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781906307110

About Alistair Findlay

One of five sons of a shale miner Alistair Findlay was born in Winchburgh West Lothian in 1949. A former local journalist and then editor of the West Lothian Courier he has a BA (Hons) in Literature and Social History (Open University) an MA in Applied Social Studies (Bradford University) a Certificate (with distinction) in Scottish Cultural Studies (Edinburgh University) and an M Phil (with distinction) in Modern Poetry (Stirling University). He now lives in Bathgate and works as a Senior Social Worker for West Lothian Council. He has just been awarded a SAC Writer's Bursary in order to complete a third collection of poetry and to edit an anthology of the poetry of Scottish Marxism.