📱 eBook en inglés THE OSSIANS

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos – seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors – newly reissued!

ANNIVERSARY EDITION with an INTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMID

A drug-fuelled, counterclockwise state-of-the-nation rock n roll tour, captures where we were at better than any modern novel Ive readIrvine Welsh

A powerful and moving commentary on the country and its defining mythsIan Rankin

One of the most vital books about modern Scotland – our landscape, culture, identity, myths and lies – of the twenty-first century. And despite the dinge, debauchery and danger, its still a joy to tour with the bandCallum McSorley

Packed with seedy, sticky bars, sullen punters and morose reflections in deteriorating weather, there is an atmospheric beauty to The OssiansIndependent on Sunday

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Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.

Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland – a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.

But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.

Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong – in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.

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The authentic ring of a man whos been thereGuardian

Johnstone is good at describing the excitement, boredom, sniping and bonhomie of a touring band at the transit-van end of the career arcThe Times

A blastScotland on Sunday

So exhilaratingly authentic, you can hear the chords and smell the vomitChristopher Brookmyre

A gripping, compelling road trip around modern ScotlandNiall Griffiths

This is This Is Spinal Tap for Scotlands lost generation. Johnstone has taken a small story of a small band lost in a small country and created an epicEwan Morrison

Entertains in the uncharted corners of an unseen ScotlandList

Praise for Doug Johnstone

Tense, funny and deeply movingMark Billingham

Nobody portrays modern Edinburgh better than Doug Johnstone … speaks volumes about the power of storyVal McDermid

An engrossing and beautifully written tale that bears all the Doug Johnstone hallmarks in its warmth and darkly comic undertonesHerald Scotland

Wonderful characters: flawed, funny and braveSunday Times

Gripping and blackly humorousObserver

A must for those seeking strong, authentic, intelligent female protagonistsPublishers Weekly

This enjoyable mystery is also a touching and often funny portrayal of grie...