{"product_id":"9781780278032","title":"Glasgow: The Autobiography","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Alan Taylor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCentral Scotland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 March 2023 by Birlinn General (Birlinn Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 127 x 28mm | 276g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding extracts from an astonishing array of contributors from Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Wordsworth and Dr Johnson to Evelyn Waugh and Dirk Bogarde, it also features the writing of bred-in-thebone Glaswegians such as Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman and 2020 Booker prize-winner Douglas Stuart. The result is a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world's great cities in all its grime and glory - a place which is at once infuriating, inspiring, raucous, humourful and never, ever dull.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64838060048733,"sku":"9781780278032","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781780278032.jpg?v=1780054180","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781780278032","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}