{"product_id":"9780857305947","title":"Tommy the Bruce","description":"Author: James Yorkston\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780857305947\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oldcastle Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Mar 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Tommy Bruce - he's washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the armpit of Perthshire, that's just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He's too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could call young (and too lazy to care about it, really). Saddled with debt, grotty premises that are falling down around him and a crippling loneliness, Tommy is slowly but determinedly drinking himself and his business out of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil one day into the lounge-bar, and out of the blue, walks Fiona McLean. And before long she's moved behind the bar, into the hotel and (remarkably) into Tommy's bed. Fiona blows into Tommy's life and through the hotel, and with the light she brings, Tommy's fortunes might just be turning around; but in her wake has also slipped in darkness  names and faces from the past who mean Tommy no goodwill at all, criminal forces that threaten to ruin him, the hotel and what little happiness he's managed, haplessly, to cobble together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTommy the Bruce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a precise, chilling and all too believable crime novel  scored throughout with a genuinely unsettling menace, which is belied by the ease of Yorkston's storytelling and humour. It's a shot of Southern Gothic poured out in the central Highlands.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46814082597022,"sku":"ADS-9780857305947","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780857305947.jpg?v=1778334455","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780857305947","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}