The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie by Alistair Mcnaught

The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie by Alistair Mcnaught

The question that haunts Ian Alexander MacDuffy is why the playwright Campbell McCluskie was murdered at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday 16 June 1954, for that was the very moment that Ian's mother died giving birth to him. The coincidence suggests that some universal meaning may lie behind that gratuitous and painful event. Ian tries to uncover every detail of Campbell's short but colourful life: the guilt-ridden hypocrisy of his grandfather; his father's success as a shoe manufacturer; his childhood in Clydebank; the death of his favourite aunt; his bewildering role in the D-Day landings; his post-war success as a playwright; his passionate and eventful love life; his ambiguous relations with the criminal underworld; his violent death - because as Campbell himself wrote, in his inimitable style, 'It's all down tae patterns and figures; if you can decipher them, then Auld Nickie-Ben'll dance tae your tune.'

McNaught, Alistair: - Alistair McNaught was born in Lennoxtown, Scotland and grew up in Bearsden, a burgh on the outskirts of Glasgow. After graduating in history and philosophy at Glasgow University, he moved to Oxford, where he worked as a bookseller for sixteen years, before becom-ing a sales representative for a London-based book distribution company. The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie is his first novel to be published. He now lives in Wantage with his wife, Sarah, their two daughters, Iona and Heather, and a melancholic white rescue cat named Alba.

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ISBN 13	9781906900557
ISBN 10	1906900558
Title	The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie
Author	Alistair Mcnaught
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Awen Publications
Year published	2018-12-11
Number of pages	292
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