Masterly ... the only work of realistic literary art to show what is happening to most of the British people here and now.’ Alasdair Gray With Kelman, and with other writers such as Alasdair Gray, the great city of Glasgow and urban Scotland in general are finding the literary voices they deserve.’ British Book News A remarkable book ... intelligent, exploratory and sometimes very touching.’ Times Literary Supplement Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won’t come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life an intelligent, funny and humane novel. First published by Polygon in 1984.