Ewan Morrison Livres

It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting, dole-scrounging, swapping drugs, clothes and beds. Fifteen years later they are drawn back into each other's lives but can they happily relive the past or will they rekindle the passions that nearly destroyed them?

Nina X has no mother and no father; she has Comrade Chen, and Comrades Uma, Jeni and Ruth. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees when she removes the plasterboard that covers her bedroom window. Comrade Chen has named her The Project; she is being raised entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything in her journal, to track her thoughts. To keep her ideology pure, her words are erased, over and over again. But that was before. Now Nina is in Freedom, and all the rules have changed. She has to remember that everything is opposite to what she was told, and yet Freedom seems to be a very confusing and dangerous place.

Impotent Scottish HR employee David leaves his family and begins a relationship with an American woman named Alice. With David teetering on the brink of unemployment, Alice decides they need help, and a remedy that starts out with sexy bedtime stories ends up right in the thick of Glasgow's swinging scene.

Kidnapped by their doomsday-prepper father to keep them safe from a supposedly new pandemic, Haley and Ben are confined to his compound with no outside contact and no idea if the threat is even real.

'Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out' Christopher Tsiolkas, author of The Slap In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she is convinced that she'll hurt her daughter unless she unpicks the mystery of her past, buried deep within a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. And there, with a looming cult leader, among the rites and rituals, the sacraments and ceremonies, is a single postcard dated a week after her mother's death. As she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.

Morrison's no-holds-barred collection of short stories tells of people caught between places and lovers as well as between desire, addiction and regret. Whether male or female; gay or straight; young or old; married, single or divorced – the urban battlefield of modern relationships is here charted with such a streetwise precision and heart-wrenching tenderness that this collection is destined to be an instant classic.'...the most compelling Scottish literary debut since Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting.' – The Sunday Times (London)

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, featuring two of the artist's most important and compelling works, together with a recent sculpture Tate Modern on Fire 2017.

What is a city? Do people make cities or do cities make people? And can cities have second lives? We all inhabit cities, but what do they mean to us? What do we mean to them? Is the city a real thing in the 21st century? How do we integrate their pasts to their futures? What are the threats facing cities in the western world? These are just some of the questions posed by the fascinating studies in this book. Through essays, poems, psychogeography, short stories, and more, an array of today’s leading writers and thinkers join together to look at cities in the western world. Focusing on the two former industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Pittsburgh, this international and diverse collection is asking the big questions and getting the most creative answers. From Will Self’s psychogeography of Glasgow, to National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes’ stunning poetry, this collection will make you think, feel, fear, and fight for what part cities play in our daily lives. Bold, diverse, and daring, these pieces are a must for anyone who cares about where we live and what it means to live in the urban sprawl of now. Will Self, Jane Mccaffery, Edwin Morgan, Ewan Morrison, Terrance Hayes, Allan Wilson, Louise Welsh, Kapka Kassabova, Gerald Stern, Doug Johnstone, Lori Jagielka, Hilary Masters, David Kinloch, Yona Harvey, Sharon Dilworth, Lee Gutkind, Richard Wilson, and many more.

Haley Cooper Crowe erzählt von ihrer isolierten Situation während eines Lockdowns an einem geheimnisvollen Ort. Die Erzählung entfaltet sich in einer spannenden Atmosphäre, in der Haley mit den Herausforderungen der Einsamkeit und der Ungewissheit konfrontiert wird. Ihre Gedanken und Gefühle spiegeln die innere Zerrissenheit wider, während sie versucht, das Rätsel ihrer Umgebung zu entschlüsseln. Die Geschichte verspricht, tief in psychologische Themen einzutauchen und die Auswirkungen von Isolation auf den menschlichen Geist zu erkunden.

Ewan Morrison ist ein Experte für guten und schlechten Sex … David, Medienmanager, die 40 fest im Blick, hatte schon lange kein Erfolgserlebnis mehr. Immerzu verspürt er die Angst, plötzlich auf der Verliererseite zu stehen, und das lähmt ihn, auch im Bett. Mit seiner neuen Freundin Alice versucht er, wenigstens sein Sex-Problem in den Griff zu kriegen, aber das klappt nicht recht. Als David dann auch noch seinen Job verliert, flüchtet er aus der Realität, verbringt immer mehr Zeit im Internet. Dort entdeckt er die Welt der Swingerclubs und überredet Alice schließlich, sich mit einem Paar zum Partnertausch zu treffen …