Hugh Barnes worked as a reporter on the Glasgow Herald from 1986 to 1989. His first novel, Special Effects, was published by Faber & Faber in 1995.
‘I went to Glasgow to live out a fantasy. Its fluid, inconstant, nerve-wrung landscape had a claim upon my imagination.’
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