George Friel

George Friel

George Friel (1910-1975) was a Scottish writer. He was born in Glasgow as the fourth of seven children, and was educated at St. Mungo's Academy and Glasgow University. After a period of service in the army, he spent the rest of his life working as a teacher in Glasgow.

George Friel wrote several novels including Grace and Miss Partridge (1969), Mr Alfred MA (1972) and An Empty House (1974).Friel's fourth novel - Mr Alfred M.A. - made it to the "100 Best Scottish Books of all Time" [ [http://www.list.co.uk/articles/100-best-scottish-books/show:100/ 100 Best Scottish Books | Articles | The List ] ] list.

Books

"The Bank of Time" (London: New Authors, 1959)

"The Boy Who Wanted Peace" (London: John Calder, 1964)

"Grace and Miss Partridge" (London: Calder and Boyars, 1969)

"Mr Alfred M.A." (London: Calder and Boyars, 1972)

"An Empty House" (London: Calder and Boyars, 1974)

His books "The Boy Who Wanted Peace", "Mr Alfred M.A." and "Grace and Miss Partridge" have been published in 1999 as "The Glasgow trilogy" by Canongate Books. A collection of short stories was published in 1992 by Polygon under the title "A friend of humanity and other stories".

References

*http://www.canongate.net/GeorgeFriel
*http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc9248.pdf


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