The Last Days of Disco

Bobby and Joeys new mobile disco business seems like the answer to everything, until they lock horns with the local gangster … First in the critically acclaimed, hilarious and heartbreaking Disco Days Trilogy, by one of Scotlands finest writers.

***Longlisted for the Authors Club First Novel Award***

This is a book that might just make you cry like nobodys watchingIain MacLeod, Sunday Mail

Ross creates beautifully rounded characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It s rude, keenly observed and candidly down to earthLiam Rudden, Scotsman

Warm, funny and evocativeChris Brookmyre

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Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. But the future is uncertain. A new partnership is coming and is threatening to destroy the big mans empire...

Bobby Cassidy and Joey Miller have been best mates since primary school. Joey is an idealist; Bobby just wants to get laid and avoid following his brother Gary to the Falklands. A partnership in their new mobile disco venture seems like the answer to everything.

The Last Days of Disco is about family, music, small-time gangsters … and the fear of being sent to the Falklands by the biggest gangster of them all. Witty, energetic and entirely authentic, its also heartbreakingly honest, weaving together tragedy and comedy with an uncanny and unsettling elegance. A simply stunning debut.

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Crucially Rosss novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour within a few sentencesPress & Journal

More than just a nostalgic recreation of the authors youth, its a compassionate, affecting story of a family in crisis at a time of upheaval and transformation, when disco wasnt the only thing whose days were numberedHerald Scotland

Theres a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Rosss debut novel, The Last Days of DiscoEdinburgh Evening News

Full of comedy, pathos and great tunesHardeep Singh Kohli

Dark, hilarious and heartbreakingMuriel Gray

Captures the time, the spirit … I loved itJohn Niven

If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was insideIrvine Welsh

Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, The Last Days of Disco is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very bestNick Quantrill