Fraser McGowan

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Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅

A copy of Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour, by Lynne Olson (New York: Random House Trade Paperback Edition, 2011). The cover image is a black and white photograph of (L-R) Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins, John Gilbert Winant, William Bullitt and A. V. Alexander, photographed on a boat leaving Westminster Pier in the early 1940s.
A copy of The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter (London: Europa Editions, 2025). The cover is an oil painting-like image of a Californian poolside at dusk. Through the patio doors on the right of the image, a sitting room is just visible, illuminated by electric light. The predominant colours are blue and orange. The book itself is held up against a bookcase.
A photograph of the novel 'Success' by Martin Amis (London: Vintage, 2019), held against a yellow and green backdrop.
A copy of Caddying on the Color Line: How Black Caddies Defined and then Redefined Golf in the South, by Craig J. Gill. Set against a blue background.
A copy of Dead Babies by the author Martin Amis, republished by Vintage in 2020.
Copy of the Rachel Papers (1973) by Martin Amis.
Portrait of the author Martin Amis, photographed in 1977. © Angela Gorgas
A copy of No Name in the Street by James Baldwin. First published in the UK in 1972, and published by Penguin Classics for the first time in 2024.
A copy of George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Books, 1989; first published by Secker & Warburg, 1938)