Welcome to Govanhill, Glasgow’s weirdest neighbourhood, home to assorted brammers and bodyswervers including Rab fae Torrisdale Street and mad Tracy who torched her flat that time.

A place that’s always changing, from ‘the worst streets in Scotland’ to the hipster apocalypse of coffee and artisan bakeries, as well as muppets, rockets and midge rakers keeping it real.

Marvel at the flapping tongues and slanging rhyme. Find out where to buy brontosaurus cutlets. Learn why New York stole all its ideas from around here. You’ll be reeling at the sheer up-and-comingness of it all.

Cheers Govanhill is a humorous, semi-fictional, lyrical love letter to an endlessly fascinating place and is well worth a wee swatch.

Author Peter Mohan was born and brought up in Glasgow. He lives and works in Govanhill and has never knowingly been to Strathbungo.

Cheers, Govanhill, which includes a foreword by acclaimed photographer Simon Murphy, costs ten Scotch pounds plus a few quid postage. It’s available here:

Cheers, Govanhill