Scottish writer · Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
The days that go wrong.
The days that go wrong.
The people who keep going.
I write about working lives, pubs, football, music, friendship and the places we carry home. Come in and read something.
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Ten Pounds
Andy, a tenner, a charity shop and a book his mother loved.
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A Johnny Cash covers band walks into a familiar Ayrshire bar and turns the place inside out.
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Before the prose
Hear the musicTwenty years of songs.
Guitars, records and a few stories that began as music.
