gangs

  • E is for Easterhouse

    When you mention Easterhouse to most people, an image of deprivation, unemployment, gang warfare, mugging, glue-sniffing and drugs is what will often spring to mind. Well, try living there. I lived in the ‘Greater Area of Easterhouse’ – I won’t talk about exactly where today or I’ll have nothing to write about for ‘Q.’ Gang…

  • The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] The Hanging Shed was at the top of the Amazon Kindle chart a couple of months ago due to its absurdly cheap price. If I am being honest, its price was the chief reason I bought this crime thriller set in post-war Glasgow, the same era as the previous book I reviewed,…

  • Gangs of Glasgow

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com]   Robert Jeffries writes, “research conducted by Glasgow University’s Professor Neil McKeganey shows that one in three boys and one in twelve girls across Scotland has carried a knife at some time.” A chilling figure. I am Glaswegian and come from Easterhouse, one of the areas badly troubled by gangs in the seventies…