Category John Maclean

Where to get ‘Great John Maclean’ in Australia

Copies of ‘Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde’ are now available in-store at the following Australian bookshops. Sydney Abbey’s, 131 York Street, Sydney. BOOK FACE, Shop 30 Northbridge Plaza, 79-113 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge (pictured above). Gould’s Books, 536 King Street, Newtown. Resistance Books, 22-36 Mountain Street, Ultimo. Title, Surry Hills Store, 501 Crown Street, Surry Hills. Title, Barangaroo Store, 400 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo, Sydney. Melbourne The

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Great John Maclean book tour of Scotland

These were my opening remarks at the launch of Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow on 26 August 2025. Joining me on the panel were Owen Maitland, national president of Scottish Socialist Youth (pictured above left) and Iain Gault from my publisher Resistance Books (above right). “History’s what people are trying to hide from you, not what they’re trying to show you.

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Where to buy ‘Great John Maclean’ outside Australia

As far as I am aware, only the Scottish and Irish bookshops listed below have copies in store. The book is available online at all other outlets listed. Scotland Calton Books, 159 London Road, Glasgow Mount Florida Books, 1068 Cathcart Road, Glasgow Lighthouse Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh (pictured above) Ireland Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street Temple Bar, Dublin UK Resistance Books Waterstones Foyles Hive TGJones Fishpond Awesome

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John Maclean’s Glasgow

A couple of weeks before I was due to head off to Glasgow in search of the ghost of John Maclean, I stumbled across a couple of articles online, both of which resonated strongly with me. The first was a feature about the Glasgow-based writer Ian R. Mitchell, ‘Following in the footsteps of Maclean and Maxwell’ by Russell Leadbetter, published in the Glasgow Herald magazine on 11 July 2015. An extract:

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