The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124678   Message #2755260
Posted By: Jack Campin
29-Oct-09 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: On the Bromielaw Quay
Subject: RE: On the Bromielaw Quay
"Children of the Dead End" is a brilliant book - it's an autobiographical novel about his experiences as a young labourer working on the construction of the Kinlochleven aluminium smelter. It's part of a trilogy, the others being "The Rat-Pit" and "Moleskin Joe". Other reprinted books are his Irish-set novel "Lanty Hanlon" and his book about WW1, "The Great Push" (made into a play in the 1990s).