Neil D.A. Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1978 and lives in London. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He is the arts editor of the online magazine Civilian and works as a freelance proofreader for Tate Publishing. The Glasgow Coma Scale is his first novel.
Take a seat for an evening service at Michelin-starred Midgard, during which the stage is set for the most deliciously haunting who-done-it you'll read this year... Test Kitchen is a novel about food: about desire and violence, mothers and mortality. Do you dare let us whet your appetite?
Lynne Meacher once dreamed of being an artist. Now she's stuck in a dead-end call centre job, lives alone and is beginning to regret her life choices. Angus Rennie was once her teacher at the Glasgow School of Art: charismatic, feared and revered by his students. But he has made mistakes too, and now he's jobless, homeless and begging for cash in Glasgow city centre.The pair's chance re-encounter spurs Lynne - certain long-submerged affections suddenly stirring - to invite Angus to stay in her flat. What can Angus do but accept?As the past is recalled, the present unravelled and the future contemplated with hope and horror, the odd couple's relationship becomes more complicated and contradictory than ever.