In his last book The Real Gorbals Story" Colin Mac Farlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area home to wonderful characters & grand old buildings disappear before his eyes. By the time Mac Farlanes tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s he had left school & been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgows top restaurants where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile Mac Farlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to & soon found himself returning to his old haunts & back in trouble again. In " No Mean Glasgow" Mac Farlane charts his eventful fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour sadness & delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow
- a city teeming with warmth passion patter & characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days."