Maureen Farrell

Maureen Farrell is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow.

Living in the City – or not: Urban Scotland in Scottish Children’s and Young Adult fiction

| By Maureen Farrell

The picture of Scottish urban literature for adults is presented as one of gritty hyper-reality examining working-class life, industrial decline and the dark underbelly of cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh. It shuns romanticised, pastoral portrayals of Scotland and tends towards the use of authentic Scots language in various dialects. The picture of urban literature for […]

“Miss, is this a real book?”

| By Maureen Farrell

The title of this article is taken from a conversation that took place in an English classroom in a school in the east end of Glasgow a few years ago. The context was that the S1 class had been reading the novel, Think Me Back (Forde, 2001). The novel is a supernatural mystery based on the Clydebank […]

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