Borrowing Burns: The Tam o' Shanter Murals

by Greg Moodie

Part-fiction, this delightfully eccentric book is a ‘factually-dubious’ account of the creation of The Tam O’Shanter Murals in Torphichen, Scotland, by the artist and writer Greg Moodie. Setting the celebrated poem by Robert Burns in the West Lothian village (population 570), Moodie used images of local residents and landmarks to produce a unique series of paintings that have delighted visitors to the area.

A comic tale of a cartoonist and his local bar, lavishly illustrated throughout.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published September 9, 2016

About the author

Greg Moodie is a writer and graphic designer with an impressively ludicrous CV and a poor recollection of virtually everything on it. Technically Dundonian, he says he graduated from the city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art ‘before the invention of fire’ but that, like Vegas, what happened there stayed there. He has two novels under his belt but has vowed to give up shoplifting from now on. You may regret this introduction.