Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland. His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing... 3 KB (195 words) - 23:26, 14 April 2024 |
Torrington may refer to: Arthur Torrington, Guyanese-born co-founder of the Windrush Foundation and the Equiano Society Jeff Torrington, Scottish writer... 2 KB (217 words) - 09:15, 15 December 2022 |
southwest Scotland to Glasgow. The novel Swing Hammer Swing! (1992) by Jeff Torrington, decades in the writing, is set in the Gorbals. The character Kristine... 28 KB (3,195 words) - 22:37, 18 April 2024 |
John Richardson A Life of Picasso — 1992 Alasdair Gray Poor Things Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! Gillian Cross The Great Elephant Chase Tony Harrison... 34 KB (1,073 words) - 23:21, 20 April 2024 |
Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke. Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease. Curtis... 136 KB (10,266 words) - 12:43, 12 April 2024 |
with Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, and his short stories began to appear in magazines. These stories... 25 KB (2,665 words) - 22:19, 7 October 2023 |
influence on many Scottish writers as diverse as Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington A C Jacobs, poet Hans Kosterlitz, professor of pharmacology, University... 11 KB (995 words) - 16:18, 11 March 2024 |
Buddha of Suburbia Winner 1991 Gordon Burn Alma Cogan Winner 1992 Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! Winner 1993 Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes Winner 1994... 32 KB (1,107 words) - 20:42, 19 April 2024 |
doctor Ruthven Todd (1914–1978), poet, novelist and children's writer Jeff Torrington (1935–2008), novelist Thomas Toughill (living), non-fiction writer... 66 KB (7,475 words) - 19:40, 6 April 2024 |