Luath Press Rights Catalogue 2024

24 Luath Press Limited
Already, Too Late
a boyhood memoir
CARL MacDOUGALL
9781804250556
September 2023
Paperback
234x156mm
272pp
£14.99
BM Memoirs
Non-Fiction
Carl is a hero of mine... a great
storyteller.
BILLY CONNOLLY
In Already, Too Late, Carl MacDougall, one of
Scotland’s most accomplished and celebrated
literary writers, presents a memoir of
extraordinary vividness and honesty.
Living in rural Kingskettle, Fife, during the late
1940s, Carl MacDougall’s childhood was an idyllic but isolated existence. After the war,
Carl’s father returns to his life. The two begin to slowly build a relationship. However,
tragedy soon strikes when Carl’s father never returns from his work on the railway.
The family are forced to relocate from their nature-filled landscape to Springfield in
the industrial east end of Glasgow. They are struggling to make ends meet, Glasgow is
brutal and tragedy becomes part of their everyday lives.
...the sheet accomplishment of the storytelling and the lively variety of writing styles
make it a compelling read.
DAILY MAIL on Someone Always Robs the Poor
A towering figure...has lost none of his distinctive style or ability to shock.
THE SCOTSMAN on Someone Always Robs the Poor
Brutal but brilliant.
THE HERALD on Someone Always Robs the Poor
CARL MACDOUGALL was one of Scotland’s most celebrated writers. His
work includes three prize-winning novels (Stone Over Water, Secker &
Warburg 1989; The Lights Below, Secker and Warburg, 1993; The Casanova
Papers, Secker & Warburg, 1996), four pamphlets and four collections of
short stories and two works of non-fiction. He has edited four anthologies,
including the bestselling The Devil and the Giro (Canongate, 1989). He has
also written and presented two major television series on Scottish literature
and language.