Here is a list of retailers currently stocking copies of ‘My Back Pages’. Click on links for details. If you’re going into a bricks and mortar store, it’s always wise to check that they haven’t sold out and are awaiting new stock. New South Wales GLEBE: Gleebooks, Glebe Point Road NORTHBRIDGE: Book Face, Northbridge Plaza (main picture, above) SYDNEY: Abbey’s Bookshop, York Street SYDNEY: Redeye Records, York Street Victoria CARLTON: Readings,
My new book, an amalgam of memoir and anthology, is now available to order (link below). There’s the experience of emigrating to the steel town where the desert meets the sea; the escape to Adelaide’s nourishing airs; the return to Britain to fathom why the family left; and the realisation there was no future in England’s dreaming. Then the plunge into publishing. Rock ‘n’ roll stories of course; Springsteen, Split
By Neil Mackay, The Herald (Scotland) A new biography charts the life and death of the socialist firebrand John Maclean. Our Writer at Large talks to author Donald Robertson about a man as loved as he was loathed THE state feared John Maclean so much that he was hounded, denounced, deprived of employment, blackballed, imprisoned and finally tormented to his death. One friend claimed “he was the victim of calculated
Donald Robertson, Great John Maclean Has Come Home to the Clyde: The Life and Times of Scotland’s Greatest Socialist (Resistance Books: London, 2025). Review by Jim Claven. This new biography of the Scottish socialist and activist John Maclean is a tour de force. Well researched and written in a clear and engaging style, its nearly 600 pages include more than 50 pages of references covering a wide range of primary and
On the morning of Thursday 28 November 1918, the Imperial War Cabinet met at 10 Downing Street in London. Outside the weather was wet and windy and the temperature struggled to reach seven degrees Celsius. It was the American holiday of Thanksgiving; but Americans were not the only ones feeling thankful. The armistices signed by the Allies on 30 October (with Turkey), 3 November (Austria-Hungary) and 11 November (Germany) had
In researching my recent biography of John Maclean, it became clear to me that the poets of Scotland played a major role in rescuing Scotland’s greatest socialist from the mists of obscurity. Thus, when I visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh in September, I was struck by this 1980 painting by Alexander Moffat. Titled ‘Poet’s Pub’, it is an imaginary vision of the major Scottish poets and writers
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 (pictured above). BOOK FACE, Shop 30 Northbridge Plaza, 79-113 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge. Resistance Books, 22-36 Mountain Street, Ultimo. Melbourne The New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton. Red Flag Books, 83 Sydney Road, Brunswick Resistance Books, 5th Floot, Druids House, 407
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.
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 Lighthouse Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh (pictured above) Calton Books, 159 London Road, Glasgow Mount Florida Books, 1068 Cathcart Road, Glasgow Waterstones Glasgow – Sauchiehall Street, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Ireland Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street Temple Bar, Dublin
