So Many Lives and All of Them Are Yours: (New in Paperback)
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So Many Lives and All of Them Are Yours: (New in Paperback)

So Many Lives and All of Them Are Yours: (New in Paperback)

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Ron Butlin (Author)  

Paperback

PRE-ORDER released 03 July 2025

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From the author of the award winning The Sound of My Voice After being sacked from his day job as a business executive, Morris Magellan has cashed it all in - the house, the car, family life - to be free at last to pursue his true passion: music. He returns to his childhood home to escape city life, face his demons and compose his masterpiece. Very soon, things start to go wrong. Not only does his past catch up with him, but the future becomes more threatening by the day. Bad habits return with a vengeance. Then he meets Jess. Written with humour and compassion, this compelling novel, set in the Borders, sixties London and present-day Edinburgh, touches on music, love in later life and, most of all, how to make the most of one's time before it is too late.
With an international reputation as a prize-winning novelist, Ron Butlin is a former Edinburgh Poet Laureate. Before becoming a writer, he was a barnacle-scraper on Thames barges, a pop-song lyricist, a footman and a male model. He has published nearly twenty books; his work has won many prizes and been widely translated. His novel, Ghost Moon, was nominated for the international IMPAC Prize 2016. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, the writer Regi Claire, and their dogs.
  • Contributor: Ron Butlin
  • Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
  • ISBN13: 9781846976810
  • Number of Pages: 192
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x12mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Birlinn General
  • Release Date: 2025-07-03
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: With an international reputation as a prize-winning novelist, Ron Butlin is a former Edinburgh Poet Laureate. Before becoming a writer, he was a barnacle-scraper on Thames barges, a pop-song lyricist, a footman and a male model. He has published nearly twenty books; his work has won many prizes and been widely translated. His novel, Ghost Moon, was nominated for the international IMPAC Prize 2016. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, the writer Regi Claire, and their dogs.

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