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Pack Men

Alan Bissett

'That's why aw this-' Cage lifts his lager can, sweeps it round 180 degrees. '-means so much tay a man.'
The crowd stamps and claps, a hundred and fifty thousand voices blending into one.

In 2008 Glasgow Rangers FC reached a major European final. It was held in Manchester, a short hop from Scotland into England. Cue a colossal invasion: the largest movement of Scots over the border in history and the first time in hundreds of years that an English city was taken over. Chaos reigned.
Pack Men is the fictional story of three pals and one child trapped inside this powderkeg. In a city rocking with beer, brotherhood and sectarianism, the boys struggle to hold onto their friendship, as they turn on each other and the police turn on them. And somehow one of them has to disclose a secret which he knows the others won't want to hear...

With this novel, one of Scotland's leading young writers has created a scuffed comedy about male un-bonding and Britain unravelling.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAY 10, 2012
  • Imprint : Hachette-Scotland
  • Page Extent : 272
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755319442
  • Price : INR 575
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Alan Bissett

Alan Bissett was born in Falkirk in 1975. His acclaimed first novel BOYRACERS published whilst he was still a student was based on his adolescent experiences growing up there. His ambitious second novel THE INCREDIBLE ADAM SPARK was extraordinarily well received and is now being turned into a play. He is a former English teacher and has lectured in Creative Writing at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. Alan is now a full-time writer and playwright and is much in demand as a live performer of his own work. He was recently named 'Falkirk Personality of the Year'.

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