Notebook #4: Books that will get you laid, Race in 1960s Scotland, RD Laing, Camilla Grudova

A books and bookshops special

Nov 26, 2023

∙ Paid

Cover image from Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition of Bohumil Hrabal’s Closely Watched Trains, photomontage by Samantha Johnson

Somewhat saucy

For a few weeks every year I cat-sit for my elder son and his girlfriend in their lovely red sandstone tenement flat on Glasgow’s fashionable Southside.

There I get to have brunch in the peerless Cafe Salma…

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