The Monthly Book Group

INTRODUCTION The proposer said that the author was born in Glasgow in 1977. Douglas Stuart was brought up in Sighthill in the East End o...

The Proposer chose Three Men in a Boat because from a young age he had enjoyed it and other Jerome writing. It continued to amuse him. Jer...

Lockdown….. and as much snow and ice in the streets as if Edinburgh were in the Arctic….  Lockdown….murky by mid-afternoon and murky till mi...

Get stuffed! “ You, you faggot, are an aardvark, an irrational, everlasting Earth-product, and whether you are ready to accept this or not, ...

Our host introduced the book very briefly, skipping the customary preamble on the author’s biographical details. He explained that this book...

  Our virtual host for the evening explained that he had discovered a copy of “Kitchen Confidential” in his house. It had been left by one o...