Tom Newlands

Nov 27, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Tom Newlands

The Scottish town of Muircross feels bleak and claustrophobic to 14-year-old Cora Mowat. The water is dank and full of garbage, wrappers litter the parks, and the people work hard but cannot get ahead. It is 1994, and Cora and her mother, Margaret, dream of moving to Abbotscraig where they can make a fresh start. As they wait for the government to approve their housing application, they continue to struggle to put food on the table, and they drive each other crazy.

Nov 8, 2024 | citylights.com | Tom Newlands

Oct 22, 2024 | thefreelibrary.com | Tom Newlands

By Tom NewlandsCOMING OF AGETeenage years are hard enough to get through as it is. Add a fractured family life, and the terrain gets even rockier. That's the situation facing Cora Mowat, a Scottish girl growing up in a grimy post-industrial town along the Firth of Forth, in Only Here, Only Now (HarperVia, $28.99, 9780063393455), Tom Newlands' uncompromising debut novel.

Jul 16, 2024 | slman.com | Tom Newlands |Colin Walsh

Only Here, Only Now By Tom Newlands Fans of Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain should try the debut novel from Tom Newlands. Like Stuart, this new voice in Scottish literature draws on his own experiences to talk about poverty, identity and family in a forgotten-about corner of Scotland. Only Here, Only Now takes readers to Fife, during the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat's mates don't understand her, but then Cora doesn't understand herself.

Jun 12, 2024 | waterstones.com | Tom Newlands

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