The Two Roberts Signed & Dedicated Edition

A full-blown treat, historical fiction that brings to life unjustly neglected figures of queer art . . . A Scottish love story -- PATRICK GALE
The Two Roberts is the greatest and truest story of two male lovers I have ever read. A masterpiece. The celebration of these men while staring down their every relentless failing is world class. What an act of the imagination! It's wonderful, beautiful, heartbreaking, inspiring, honest, true, vital and magnificent. They live, they love, they fight, they sing, they fight naked and drunk, this is truly a literary miracle to look at these men and create them anew with such love, but such a tough, cold eye too -- RUSSELL T DAVIES
Extraordinary. Barr is a gifted storyteller and a miraculous scene painter, exquisitely rendering such a pivotal, awful moment in our history, but there's beauty on every page. The Two Roberts has a huge beating human heart, written in delicate, funny, exacting prose so that it feels fresh and nuanced and entirely new -- CURTIS GARNER
Epic and touching, and a revelation in its rediscovery of MacBryde and Colquhoun -- DAVID NICHOLLS
The Two Roberts is beautiful! Beautiful writing. So vivid and alive and human and humane and funny and important! Tracing the line from Glasgow School of Art to London, art is as vital on every page as is the love, defiance, queer elegance and intelligence of the two artists this book honours. This is a truly great story penned by one of Scotland's finest writers, about two of our most extraordinary artists -- JENNI FAGAN
A novel that brims over with generosity and warmth -- ALEX PRESTON * * Observer * *
Working-class life and artistic Bohemia collide in this novel of all-consuming passion and the torture of creation. Brilliantly written, poignant and powerful. This is Damian Barr's chef-d'oeuvre -- IAN RANKIN
With skill equal to his subjects, Barr paints a portrait exquisite in its honesty and tenderness. Talent, determination, wretchedness and love amid forces greater than themselves move The Two Roberts forward through time; Robert and Bobby are framed by their devotion to each other, their life by their art. Barr has brought them to glorious life and given them their rightful place. Readers will not forget them. I loved it -- ELEANOR ANSTRUTHER
You can close this book, but Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun will never leave you. Tough, lyrical, funny, political, serious. Damian Barr has pulled off a love story that grips and refuses to let go. Astonishingly deft -- JON COURTENAY GRIMWOOD
Praise for Damian Barr: Completely gripping and profoundly moving -- MAGGIE O'FARRELL