 To buy 'Born Free,' click image  To buy 'Nail and Other Stories' on Amazon, click image, or to purchase signed copies for �5.00 (free P&P; within the UK) contact me here  To buy 'Strictly Casual,'click image  To buy 'The Hope That Kills Us: An Anthology of Scottish Football Fiction,' click image  To buy the anthology, 'Children of Albion Rovers,' click image  To buy the 'Como En Familia' - the Spanish translation of 'Born Free,' click image  To buy 'N�gel. Stories.' - the German translation of 'Nail,' click image, or for German translation of 'Born Free,' click here  To buy 'Typical Girls: New Stories by Smart Women,' click image  To buy the anthology, 'Damage Land,' click image  To buy 'The Flamingo Book of New Scottish Writing: 1998,' click image CANONGATE BOOKSFor the website of my award-winning publishers, Canongate Books, click image REBEL INCRebel Inc continues to evolve. Click image to find out the latest from Kevin Williamson Click image to link to the quite frankly, bloody marvellous Serpent's Tail website EICHBORNClick image to link to the website of Eichborn, my German publisher  Click image to link to the website of La Serpent a Plumes, my French publisher SIRUELAClick image to link to the website of Siruela, my Spanish publisher DE BEZIGE BIJClick image to link to the website of De Bezige Bij, my Dutch publisher TIDERNE SKIFTERClick image to link to the website of Tiderne Skifter, my Danish publisher Click image to link to the website of Sammakko, my cool Finnish publisher THE BARCELONA REVIEWClick image to get your teeth into the 6th anniversary issue of the fantastic Barcelona Review which includes a story by talented new Scottish writer Iain Bahlaj, amongst other gems MESSAGE | |
Publisher: Rebel Inc
"One of the most accomplished and fresh young voices around." - The Times "Hird has created a debut novel of malevolent, claustrophobic brilliance." - The Big Issue "Born Free is a wonderfully bleak and often hilarious novel about family life. Maybe west Edinburgh has found its Dostoevski." The Crack "Laura Hird's first novel sizzles with brio, gusto, disgust and many other vital signs. . .The situations and dark humour might recall the work of Mike Leigh, but Laura Hird's writing, which is reminiscent of Irvine Welsh (for style) and Iain Banks (for pace), also has the tenderness of James Kelman's early work." The Times Literary Supplement
Publisher: Rebel Inc
"Roars like a lion on the printed page." - iD Magazine "Tied together with cutting insights and sharp style, making Nail bite, scratch and chew. Librarians should file with care." The Face ��In this dark and disturbing collection of short stories, Laura Hird takes her readers on a roller-coaster ride into the heads of the ordinary, fucked-up citizens of normality as they go about their daily business. A twelve year old boy uses the Edinburgh buses to escape from his dysfunctional mother and her boyfriend; a mismatched suburban couple try wife-swapping to inject adventure into a flagging relationship; a retarded youth tries to join a female gang; a dead lesbian lover can�t let go; a British soldier loses the plot; a former tenant dreams up revenge on a heartless landlord. These are remarkable stories by any standard, told with a chilling detachment that fails to mask their underlying humanity. Nail is an extraordinary debut; gritty, surreal and morbidly funny with Hird constantly turning over seemingly innocuous looking stones to see what lurks beneath.� �A dazzling new writer� - The Bookseller
Publisher: Rebel Inc
�Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90�s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge and James Meek and introducing the striking new talents of Laura Hird and Paul Reekie. �Mixing the sublime with the irreverent, Children of Albion Rovers takes a sledgehammer to convention� - New Statesman �A fistful of Caledonian classics� - Loaded �It is billed as a �frenetic breakbeat of Scottish social surrealism and urban mythology� but is better than that� - Literary Review �Like a burst of foul air but bursting with energy and excitement� - Scotland on Sunday
Publisher: Rebel Inc
�Rovers Return features pint-sized offerings from as far afield as the Siberia Bar, New York, the Dubliner�s Bar, Stockholm and the Tynecastle Arms, Edinburgh. Six intoxicating offerings from some of the best young writers around.
�Pacy, punchy, state of the era� - I-d Magazine �Compelling and lurid�truly hallucinogenic� - The Scotsman
'The Initiation'Short story published in Hanging Loose Press anthology - "Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland" - edited by Marie Carter. (Mar 03). For more information on Hanging Loose Press website, click image.
'The Happening'Short story published in Serpent's Tail anthology - "Strictly Casual" - edited by Amy Prior. (Feb 03). More information at www.serpentstail.com
Read extract from all the stories on editor, Amy Prior's website here
Short story in Freight Design's anthology of Scottish football fiction, 'The Hope That Kills
Us.'
Available from: Freight Design, 49-53 Virginia Street, Glasgow, G1 1TS, and from good Glasgow bookshops.
Short story in 'The Literary Review, Vol 45, No 2 (A Change of
Face -
Contemporary Scottish Writing.)' Delighted to hear that the story has
been awarded The Charles Angoff Prize.
* 1998 - Novella (Italian Translation by Pierluigi Cerri) - �Pupilla in Dilatazione� (Einaudi Tascabili)
Read publishers, Einaudi's comments on the anthology - here* 1999 - Short Story Collection (Italian Translation by Norman Gobetti) - �Unghia� (Einaudi Tascabili)* June 2001 - Novel (German Translation by Irma Schick) - Born Free - (Eichborn)
Read Titel Magazine review - here Read Werner Jung's review on the Lyrikwelt site - hereRead Perlentaucher review - here* May 2001 - Novel (Dutch translation by Annelies Konijnenbelt) - Born Free - (De Bezige Bij)* 2002 - Short Story Collection (French Translation by Alain Defosse) �L�Ongle� (La Serpent a� Plumes - Collection Desordres)
Article on L'Alsace Les Pays website - here Read R�dacteurs et LeLibraire.com review - hereRead Le Matricule des Anges review - here* February 2002 - Novel (Spanish Translation by Alejandro Palomas) �Como en Familia� (Ediciones Siruela)* October 2002 - Novel (Polish Translation by 'Malgorzata Karkowska) - Born Free "wrzuc na luz" (Bertelsmann) * October 2002 - 'Vapaana syntynyt' - (Finnish Translation of 'Born Free') - (Sammakko)
Read publishers, Sammakko's comments on the book - here Read Killtomato website review - here* February 2003 - 'Nagel Stories' - (German translation of 'Nail and Other Stories' - (Eichborn)
Read Anne Kathrin Hahn's German review on Satt.org site - here Read Perlentaucher review - hereRead Titel Magazine review - here* 25 August 2003 - Novel (French Translation by Alain Defosse) - 'Les Lois de 'h�r�dit�' (La Serpent a' Plumes - Collection Desordres)
Read Jowebzine review - here * November 2003 - Novel (Danish Translation by Ninna Bren�e - 'Born Free') - 'F�dt fri' (Tiderne Skifter)
Read Tiderne Skifter details of the translation - here
Stories and articles published in: The Face, The Big Issue, Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, Billy Liar, Verbal, Cencrastus, Chapman, Grand Street (USA), Front and Centre (Canada), Blvd (Netherlands), Bang (Sweden), Barcelona Review, Story (USA)...
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