Writer Alan Gillespie chats to Pat about his first novel, The Mash House

Published: July 29, 2021, 10:57 a.m.

b"Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 91\\nIn this episode the writer Alan Gillespie talks about his first novel, The Mash House; it is a novel of isolation and fear set in an isolated Highland village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula.\\xa0\\nAlan Gillespie is a writer and teacher from Fife. He has studied at the University of Stirling, Glasgow and Strathclyde.\\xa0\\nHis articles and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Herald, Northwards Now, New Writing Scotland and elsewhere.\\nIn 2011 he was awarded the Scottish Emerging Writer\\u2019s residency at Cove Park. The Mash House is his first novel.\\xa0\\nLinks\\nAlan Gillespie\\nPat's Guide To Glasgow West End\\nTwitter: @glasgowswestend"