The Last Days of Disco (Disco Days Trilogy): 1: Volume 1

The Last Days of Disco (Disco Days Trilogy): 1: Volume 1

by David F . Ross (Author)

Synopsis

Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. But the future is uncertain. A new partnership is coming and is threatening to destroy the big man's Empire ...

The Last Days of Disco is about family, music, small-time gangsters ... and the fear of being sent to the Falklands by the biggest gangster of them all. Witty, energetic and entirely authentic, it's also heartbreakingly honest, weaving together tragedy and comedy with an uncanny and unsettling elegance. A simply stunning debut.

`There's a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Ross's debut novel, The Last Days of Disco' Edinburgh Evening News

'This is a book that might just make you cry like nobody's watching' Iain MacLeod, Sunday Mail

`Full of comedy, pathos & great tunes' Hardeep Singh Kohli

`Warm, funny & evocative' Chris Brookmyre

`Dark, hilarious & heartbreaking' Muriel Gray

`Captures the time, the spirit ... I loved it' John Niven

`If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was inside' Irvine Welsh

`Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, The Last Days of Disco is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very best' Nick Quantrill

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Orenda Books
Published: 15 Mar 2015

ISBN 10: 191063302X
ISBN 13: 9781910633021

Media Reviews
'Full of comedy, pathos & great tunes' Hardeep Singh Kohli 'Warm, funny & evocative' Chris Brookmyre 'Dark, hilarious & heartbreaking' Muriel Gray 'If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was inside' Irvine Welsh 'Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, The Last Days of Disco is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very best' Nick Quantrill 'For any music fan this book is a glorious nostalgia trip - I was reminded of Trainspotting, but with disco instead of drugs. A joy to read' Grab This Book
Author Bio
David F. Ross was born in Glasgow in 1964 and has lived in Kilmarnock for over thirty years. He is a graduate of the Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art, an architect by day, and a hilarious social media commentator, author and enabler by night. His most prized possession is a signed Joe Strummer LP. Since the publication of his debut novel The Last Days of Disco, he's become something of a media celebrity in Scotland, with a signed copy of his book going for GBP500 at auction, and the German edition has not left the bestseller list since it was published.