‘Scottish purveyor of erudite filth ... you’re gonna love Ewan Morrison’s debut collection, The Last Book You Read.’ Arena ‘A confident and heartfelt selection of stories which flit between Scotland and America . . . Convincingly writing all ages and both sexes in the first person, Morrison equals the everyman patter of Irvine Welsh and the personable logic of Iain Banks. Yet there is also a precise mixture of the uncompromising and the tender that’s all his own, and a full-length debut novel will be eagerly anticipated.’ David Pollock, The List (****)   ‘frankly manky’ Colin Waters, Sunday Herald ‘In Scottish terms, it’s the most assured short story collection since AL Kennedy’s Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains and the most compelling Scottish literary debut since Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. On an international level, it signals the emergence of a precocious literary talent … a heart-wrenching clutch of post-millennial fables’ Sunday Times ‘Morrison's narrative voice has the perfect level of confidence and the rawness of the emotions really stings - this book's got soul!’ David Mackenzie, director of Young Adam   ‘A Scot finds his voice in America in these wonderfully assured stories.’ Bernard MacLaverty ‘. . . includes stories set in New York and has already been compared to Douglas Coupland. This title heralds the launch of a new literary imprint by the Edinburgh-based publishers Black and White, and with a mesmerizing, no-holds- barred collection of short stories they have surely stolen a march on the kind of titles Canongate used to call its own.’ The Herald ‘fearless and touching short-story collection . . . masterly’ Lesley McDowell, The Herald