MOUNT Florida Books is one of those small, still-forming independent book shops, run by Katia Wengraf, that just makes you feel instantly at home.
The Glasgow venue was perfect for a standing-room-only launch of Gerry Hassan’s latest book, Scotland Rising: The Case For Independence. Sandwiched between a brilliant new poetry release, Alycia Pirmohamed’s debut collection Another Way To Split Water, and some mouth-watering cookery books, the new publication was launched.
For those of you who know Hassan from the media, and his focused, forensic, glorious love of debate about all things political, you will know that listening to him is like listening to a beehive mind-hum. Ideas and angles keep dashing off into different corners of a fascinating garden to come back laden with new fruitful potential. You could have heard a pin drop in Mount Florida Books on Wednesday night, and yet this was not the Hassan of rightly combative talk shows or the commentariat.
