Chris Dolan
Award-winning novelist, scriptwriter, playwright and lecturer Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, where he lives and works today. A former International Consultant for UNESCO, he has had a lifelong fascination with Spain. His numerous writing awards include the McKitterick Prize for his first novel, Ascension Day, the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize, the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award and a shortlisting for a Saltire Society literary award.
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How would any of us feel if we could meet our teenage selves, a ghost on the road?
Everything Passes, Everything Remains is a confluence of journeys, made by Chris Dolan, his friends, and writers before him. Itโs a bit about cycling, a bit about walking, and a bit about buses. Itโs a kind of travelogue, over time, and through some lesser-known parts of Spain.
Itโs an obsession with Spainโs writers and its history, from the Inquisition to the Civil War to the questions it faces as a country today. What makes a nation, or a family for that matter, or a group of friends? In many ways itโs as much about Dolanโs native Scotland as Spain.
But mostly, itโs about the highs and lows of growing up and growing older โ how the past plays merry hell with the present. About friendship, loss, music, memory, and the demons that follow us as we try to make sense of our history and our place in the world.
REVIEWS OF Everything Passes, Everything Remains
โWonderfully life-affirming โฆ features close observation of landscape โฆ reflections on friendship and memory, history, politics and the messy, painful, joyful business of being human.โ Jamie Jauncey
โYou can be gallus enough to busk across Spain but your demons and weaknesses still come with you โฆ Chris Dolan celebrates the power of cycling to link his friendships, music and the Iberian ways of life.โ Alan Brown
โBrilliantly relatable, a personal journey shared candidly.โ Mark Beaumont
โProof of the healing power of friendship โฆ thoughtful, hopeful and beautifully written.โ Colin Blane
โA treat from start to finish โฆ To those who love life, read this book.โ David Hayman
โ... a rich, evocative ramble through Spain, history and memory. Itโs a constant delight.โ Graeme Macrae Burnet
โMagical. A story for our times and what it is to be alive now.โ Elaine C Smith
