Author : James Yorkston
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 0857305956
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)
Book Synopsis Tommy the Bruce by : James Yorkston
Download or read book Tommy the Bruce written by James Yorkston and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2025-01-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNSETTLING, ATMOSPHERIC NOIR SET IN THE REMOTE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS Meet Tommy Bruce &– he' s washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the armpit of Perthshire, that' s just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He' s too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could call young (and too lazy to care about it, really). Saddled with debt, grotty premises that are falling down around him, and a crippling loneliness, Tommy is slowly but determinedly drinking himself and his business out of existence. Until one day into the lounge-bar, and out of the blue, walks Fiona McLean. And before long she' s moved behind the bar, into the hotel, and (remarkably) into Tommy' s bed. Fiona blows into Tommy' s life and through the hotel, and with the light she brings, Tommy' s fortunes might just be turning around; but in her wake has also slipped in darkness &– names and faces from the past who mean Tommy no goodwill at all, criminal forces that threaten to ruin him, the hotel, and what little happiness he' s managed, haplessly, to cobble together. Tommy the Bruce is a precise, chilling and all too believable literary noir &– scored throughout with a genuinely unsettling menace, which is belied by the ease of Yorkston' s storytelling and humour. It' s a shot of Southern Gothic poured out in the central Highlands.