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Product details
- ISBN 9781912235605
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Saraband
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR
R.M. Murray has a story. Quite a few of them. Of seasickness, hangovers, the wrong kind of weather. Of the joy of woe, and disappointments fairy-lit with hope. From fishing in the endless rain on the Isle of Lewis to performing in a band with Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson at Glasgow School of Art. A stargazer, looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
This is a memoir... of sorts. A join-the-dots journey through a life. A series of vignettes and minor personal fables, sardonic and self-deprecating. If it were a wine it would be very dry with an insolent nose and a desperate finish. Complex but approachable. And affordable.
R.M. Murray is Head of Visual Art & Literature at An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis. Having grown up on Lewis, he studied in Aberdeen and then at the Glasgow School of Art – where he was in a punk band with Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson – before returning to Stornoway.
