Bad Things

Charismatic student, playwright and ship-in-a-bottle maker Gladbody Holiman thinks he's pulling the strings of the band of socialists and thespians who populate his life and fantasies while he blags his way through uni and into the review columns. His murderous odyssey to steal literary stardom from a family friend takes him from Glasgow to Orkney, and back. But there's more to his comrades and girlfriend, Calvert Makeme, than meets his sick eye, and as the cast of bodies and lovers pile up, Glad has to work harder than planned to stick to the plot. The players in R D McGregor's psychopathic love story are driven by ambition and an unhealthy desire for control. This portrait of 1980s studentdom leaves us wondering if love is, in the end, a good thing?