num_pages: 512
description: A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a public benefactor and the fisherman's friend; such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of the new breed of Scottish entrepreneur, prepared to use any means to achieve his insatiable ambition amongst the nineteenth-century fishing communities of the west coast. John MacDougall Hay (1881 - 1919) was born and raised in Tarbert, Loch Fyne, on which he based the setting for Gillespie. A Church of Scotland minister, his knowledge of such communities and his sombre vision of good and evil shape this, his finest novel.
language: English
title: Gillespie
titlecomplete: Gillespie
characters: Gillespie Strang
genres: Scotland
ratings_count: 22
places: Brieston, Argyll, Scotland, Scotland, Argyll, Scotland
publisher: Canongate Books