Brond

’A cryptic, fast-cutting thriller’ – Times Literary Supplement

’Pressingly relevant...Brond is a marvellous villain.’ - Sunday Herald 

’An intense thriller ... an analysis of how cynically the secret British state responded in the 1970s and early 1980s to radical Scottish nationalism.’ – Scotland on Sunday

’A novel which would seem significant whenever it had been written.’ – Allan Massie

’A fierce writer, devoting an equal ferocity to love as to depravity.’ – The Guardian

Voted one of the 100 best Scottish books of all time by Edwin Morgan.


After witnessing the mysterious Brond push a child off Kelvingrove Bridge, student Robert is drawn into Brond’s plan to trap a dangerous IRA killer. Brond is a high-octane page-turner, full of political intrigue, a tale of evil and exploitation in the nightmarish landscape of a Glasgow where nothing is as it seems. Lindsay’s writing is formidable and at its most thrilling and most unpredictable here.

Brond was adapted into a memorable three-part series for Channel 4, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, and starring John Hannah and Stratford Johns.

Frederic Lindsay was born and brought up in Glasgow, and now lives in Edinburgh. After graduating with first-class honours in English Literature and Language he worked as a library assistant, a teacher and a lecturer before becoming a full-time writer. He has written for the theatre, radio, television and film, and is the author of over ten highly acclaimed novels.