William McIlvanney (Author of Laidlaw) - Goodreads.
William McIlvanney’s first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction.Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association.Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald’s People’s Prize.Hugh McIlvanney was born on 2 February 1934 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, to William and Helen McIlvanney (nee Montgomery). He was educated at Hillhead Primary school then James Hamilton Academy. He transferred across to Kilmarnock Academy for a session when his brother William started there. Journalism career.In this consideration of William McIlvanney’s prose writings, the concentration will be on the later works, from Docherty onwards, the works that most clearly reveal McIlvanney’s strengths (and perhaps weaknesses) as a writer, and certainly reveal his strong convictions and purposes.
William McIlvanney's gift for language and clever one-liners draw the audience into the play creating sympathy for his character. The situation of the lone father is a familiar one. John Mitchell describes with wry humour how he had tried to tell his son that the parents are to be divorced. They had been in his car. 'He looked everywhere' he.Buy William McIlvanney Laidlaw Trilogy 3 Books Box Set(Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch and Strange Loyalties) by William McIlvanney (ISBN: 9783200306400) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
About the Author. William McIlvanney's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction.Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association.Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize.
