ISBN-13: 978-0141025377
Published by Penguin
November, 2002, and sixteen-year-old Clare is travelling from Glasgow to Florence with her older brother Danny to be a part of the anti-capitalist demo. Amidst the crowds they meet Julian and Letitia, two alluring and seductive anti-capitalists from down south. Over the next few years the lives of Danny, Clare, Letitia and Julian become impossibly tangled in the personal and the political as each decides what is and what’s not worth shouting about. But how will they come to shape the world – and how will the world come to shape them?
 | Alison MillerAlison Miller is Orcadian and has recently come back to live in Orkney. Her novel, Demo was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award in 2006. She has had poetry and prose published in anthologies and stories broadcast on BBC Radio Four. In 2013 she was Scottish Book Trust Reader in Residence in Orkney Library & Archive. As a member of the George Mackay Brown Fellowship, which promotes writing in Orkney, Alison compiled and edited That Bright Lifting Tide: Twelve Orkney Writers, highlighting the literary heritage of the islands. Recently she has been collaborating with other Orkney writers to develop and perform new work using Orkney language. In 2016 she was commissioned along with two other writers by An Lanntair in Lewis to write a long story on the theme ‘Between Islands’, linking the island groups, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. The book that emerged from the project was launched in Stornoway on 4 June 2016. http://lanntair.com/bealach/between-island-writers-commission/ |