The Bonny Lad

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Tulloch continues his brilliant melding of Alan Silitoe and Roddy Doyle in this, his second novel, once again mixing humor, despair, anger, and hope in a unabashedly social novel that tugs the heartstrings until they come close to breaking the heart. We invite users to post interesting questions about the UK that create informative, good to read, insightful, helpful, or light-hearted discussions.

You are showing your age Keelefarmer - my mum used to say it, but she is eighty-five, and the potteries' mainly female workforce are long since redundant, and slowly passing on. I'm just watching 'Our Friends in the North' , a drama shown on the BBC in the 90's about a group of people living in Newcastle.A cast of characters out of this world and all delivered with such rapour you want to hurry the narrator along so as to enjoy the next chuckle,the next tear, the next belly laugh. When he mother can't deal with him, he's sent off to stay with one of an informal group of neighborhood women who desperately try to raise the unwanted children of the ghetto. He has written three previous novels, The Season Ticket , winner of the Betty Trask Prize and filmed as Purely Belter, The Lottery and Give Us This Day. I agree with celticrichie that it sounds great as a GHB strathspey, and it’d be good as a highland fling too. Full of character and wit, our Geordie ware has become the favoured mug for thousands of Geordie folk.

Not with these bonny designs, which come complete with translations to celebrate your favourite Northern expressions. At first I thought the written Geordie dialect would put me off but after a few pages I soon got used to it and was soon sounding like a Geordie in my head. In fact you could play it as a fast single reel if you simply speed up and straighten out the rhythm. Sonny Gee is about six years old, but a neglectful upbringing at the hands of his drug-addicted mother and her hard-case boyfriend who uses the child as a mule, have left him foul mouthed and streetwise beyond his years.And if anyone thinks the portrayal of Gateshead is overwrought, read Danziger's Britain, and prepare to be depressed about the state of modern Britain. But the dominant question is what the old man is going to do with this wild boy and whether, through him, he can find hope and meaning at the end of a lifetime of suffering. Of course its a rant and not a polka and it is played regular at sessions and at ceilidhs throughout theNorth-east to this day. These are mostly delivered through the grandfather's lips with all the bitterness Tulloch can summon to the page.