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Skeem Life: Growing Up in the Seventies
Author(s): Gary Robertson (Author)
- Publisher: Black and White Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845023218
- ISBN-13: 9781845023218
Book Description
The 1970s had so much more to offer than just bell-bottom trousers and disco music. Gary Robertson takes us on a journey through the whole decade where he spent his early life growing up in the Whitfield and Fintry housing schemes in Dundee. It was a life without the restricting shackles of ‘political correctness’ where youngsters roamed with carefree abandon and sometimes got up to no good in the process. Diverse subjects such as berry-picking, skale days, Christmas in a multi-storey, drunken New Year pehrties, youth gangs, catching bees and bird-nesting are all covered in Gary Robertson’s own unique and humorous style. It’s a colourful account with intermittent bursts of local dialect to give a flavour of the larger than life characters from the streets where he lived and still lives.
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About the Author
Gary Robertson was born in Dundee in 1967 and has lived and worked in the city all of his life. A self-confessed fitness fanatic, his interest in writing began shortly after winning the hit BBC 2 reality TV series ‘SAS Are You Tough Enough?’ Much of his writing to date is a celebration of the culture he has grown up in with books such as Gangs of Dundee, Pure Dundee and What’s It All About Ralphie? He has also written a very successful and hilarious play called The Berries and was recently chosen to be an ambassador for his hometown. He is married to Sue and they have two children, Cailean and Eilidh.
