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David Manderson

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Novel, non-fiction, short stories, 2017 RLS Fellow, PhD, prize-winning short film, survivor. I serve on the Board of Scottish PEN and The Society of Authors.

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Another one from Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller in their excellent series. 'Concrete Dreams': Cumbernauld Town Centre. Looking forward to the launch. concretedreams.org.uk/the-book/


I'm completing a blog post for Scottish PEN, 'Publish and Perish', about the perilous state of the arts in Glasgow today. I'll put up a link to it here soon. @LiamMcIlvanney @GerardCarruthe2 @GerryHassan @RaewynRiach @ScottishPEN

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Remembering I.A.A MacGregor, teacher at GA, sometimes known as Captain Hook, a Scottish rugby internationalist who put his skills to good use in the classroom. @VladMcTavish @axrenton @gilesmoffatt

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Probably the greatest film ever made about the public school experience. This is the moment when we learn about the operation of power. @axrenton @EASurvivors

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I'm glad that my review of Bernard MacLaverty's 'Blank Pages' has been accepted by The Bottle Imp. It's a great collection. @RaewynRiach @GerardCarruthe2 @LiamMcIlvanney @scotlit @ScottishPEN

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@Kirstymacdougall Congratulations for the Saltire nomination. Hope your dad wins it!


Wonderful to see Carl MacDougall's 'Already Too Late' and Margaret Elphinstone's 'Lost People' on the Saltire list. They both deserve to win. @scotlit @GerardCarruthe2 @LiamMcIlvanney @RaewynRiach


Well you had to love him or hate him, he gave you no choice. Hard to wholly like, wonderful leader. @GerryHassan @GerardCarruthe2 @LiamMcIlvanney @ScottishPEN @scotlit

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'Scot Is Brilliant, Often Revolting', Yep. @scotlit @ScottishPEN @LiamMcIlvanney

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Thinking of and writing about this film tonight. Subversive from start to end. 'Swinging London', indeed! @ScottishPEN @scotlit @GerardCarruthe2 @LiamMcIlvanney

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Excellent new writing launch to morrow night

With the Glasgow launch of TERMINAL being an away fixture tomorrow (Thursday), I'd really appreciate it if any of the Glasgow massive could give me a wee repost-signal-boost for the tweet above!🙏

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With the Glasgow launch of TERMINAL being an away fixture tomorrow (Thursday), I'd really appreciate it if any of the Glasgow massive could give me a wee repost-signal-boost for the tweet above!🙏

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Jolly old Glasgow Academy. Much in my thoughts these days @VladMcTavish @axrenton

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It would be wrong to say I knew Alex salmond at uni in 1970s St Andrews, but I used to see him around, had the odd chat. Always going to the bookie’s with his Beatle cap on. Liked him. @scotlit @ScottishPEN @RaewynRiach


Reborn as an amoeba ihateglasgowacademy.wordpress.com/reborn-as-an-a… An old but good article about ‘my old school’. @Mandraxian


Hey! Look what I found.

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Taken from St Nicholas church, Vittoriale Palace, Gardone on Lake Garda today. Yesterday thunderstorm, 25 degrees today. ⁦@CharlieGracie_⁩ ⁦@RaewynRiach

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I had lots of girlfriends, lots of sex, took lots of drugs - and tonight, I'm a rock and roll star! Yes! Robert Burns and Alan Sharp - coming soon, I hope. @GerardCarruthe2 @LiamMcIlvanney @RaewynRiach @scotlit @ScottishPEN

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