Vince McGlennan, was born in Glasgow’s East End. Throughout his life, he has lived all over Glasgow, collecting the stories of its people, its style, its politics and its places, all of which he regards with a mixture of affection, admiration and astonishment.

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He later enrolled in Strathclyde University where he became student president, then and still the oldest to hold that office.

A self-proclaimed Glasgowphile, he maintains Glaswegians are uniquely gifted in their ability to endure fortune’s vicissitudes and come up smiling.

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He has written one previous book, a history of his local church. In that book his emphasis was primarily on the daily doings of its parishioners who were, after all, its begetters and actors.