Good debut

I bought this book because the author is one of my friend's tutors for Scottish Lit and gave a talk for one of our societies (which I attended). He was talking about this (his first book to be published), his upcoming biography of Alasdair Gray, and briefly about his future novel.

No Fireworks is a decent enough first novel. Glass's writing style has a slight awkwardness to it still and there were a couple of small instances where the editing could have been a little better, but nothing that made a great hindrance to my overall enjoyment of the storyline, which was worked quite well.

I'm definately looking forward to his biography of Alasdair Gray, and will probably pick up his next novel if the fancy takes me in the future. Just needs a little more development of his writing and then he'll be on track.

6/10