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What do Princess Diana and Ayr Amusements have In common?

Where does Yoko Ono meet Susan Boyle, Black Monday and the dark arts of politics?

Here, in this exciting first collection of 100 original poems and songs, writer A. A. Reid takes us on a life’s journey - from 1960s Ayr, to 70s Edinburgh, via London’s Square Mile in the Hooray Henry ‘80s and back to a devolved Scotland on the rise. Glimpse celebrities off guard and walk with the money men as they take us over the cliff; and then politics – family and parliamentary which impoverish us all if we are not wised up; finally there is romance and sex and in the end, if we are lucky, love too.

In the Robert Burns tradition of fusing poetry and song, this witty fellow Ayrshireman carries pithy Scots into the shady nuances of the English language, and fuses calls for action with the canniest of social observation.

A.A. Reid is Scotland’s brave new voice for a knife-edge world.