1975 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner
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Docherty
William McIlvanney
Winner of the Whitbread prize, by one of Scotland’s greatest living novelists Tam Docherty’s youngest son, Conn, is born at the end of 1903 in a small working-class town in the west of Scotland. Tam will stop at nothing to make sure that life and the pits …