Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Gla

Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had h

Growing up in the Gorbals described Ralph Glasser's poverty-stricken childhood in Glasgow as the son of impoverished Jewish immigrants, while Gorbals Boy at Oxf

Gorbals and God is a lively and compelling account of the author’s struggle against the poverty which affected so many Gorbals residents in the mid-1930s unti