From Scenes Like These

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize

'A masterpiece' – Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'An extraordinary novel' – Michael Magee, author of Close to Home

'It deserves its modern classic status' – The Times

It’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening.

But Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer on a local farm. Dead set on becoming a hard case, he wants to work...