1. Stonemouth: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
A man returns to his childhood home to uncover the truth behind his best friend's apparent suicide.
2. Stonemouth review: 'visually fabulous, but lacks knuckle ...
Jun 12, 2015 · And as a thriller, though it lacks true knuckle-chewing suspense, it works well enough, skips along with Stewart poking about to try to find out ...
It won’t keep me awake at night, but I’ll be back to Stonemouth next week to see if Christian Cooke’s Stewart can figure out who killed his best friend
3. Stonemouth | Rotten Tomatoes
A man returns to his childhood home to uncover the truth behind his best friend's apparent suicide.
4. TV review: Stonemouth was nothing special | The Herald
Jun 8, 2015 · The setting was lovely, the light was beautiful, the soundtrack was nicely haunting, but the characters were flimsy, young and pretty, or were ...
Stewart did a terrible thing, an appalling, dreadful thing. Oh, it haunts him. Oh, it tortures him. Oh, the terrible, tormenting thing! It led to…
5. STONEMOUTH by Iain Banks - Reader Dad
Apr 12, 2012 · Stonemouth shows a writer comfortable and confident in his chosen field. Perfectly plotted and beautifully written, it presents a cast of ...
STONEMOUTH Iain Banks (www.iain-banks.net) Little Brown (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £18.99 I didn’t have to read too far into Iain Banks’ latest novel, Stonemouth, to realise that I’ve been more than a…
6. Review: Stonemouth (S1 E2/2), Thursday 18th June, BBC2
Jun 20, 2015 · The second part of this adaptation of Iain Banks's penultimate novel needed to be better than the first. Of that there's no doubt.
The second part of this adaptation of Iain Banks’s penultimate novel needed to be better than the first. Of that there’s no doubt. I do have to put my hands up and admit that I got some…
7. Does length matter? Stonemouth and the problem of the mini-series
Jun 18, 2015 · It stands as a broadcasting memorial stone to Iain Banks, the author of the source novel, and there are sparky performances from a cast ...
Politics, history and money all affect TV scheduling, but the BBC’s decision to run its adaptation of Iain Banks’s novel in two hour-long episodes doesn’t add up
8. STONEMOUTH - Kirkus Reviews
This novel considers the question of how to return home after a long absence, particularly when your ex-fiancee is the eldest daughter of a local crime boss ...
This novel considers the question of how to return home after a long absence, particularly when your ex-fiancee is the eldest daughter of a local crime boss.
9. Book Review: Stonemouth by Iain Banks - Gay Authors
Dec 18, 2022 · Stonemouth is a Scottish seaside town and after five years away Stewart Gilmour returns to it for the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston.
Stonemouth is a Scottish seaside town and after five years away Stewart Gilmour returns to it for the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston. Stewart has history with the Murston family, the crime lords of this town, especially with his treatment of Ellie Murston. Added to this is the strange suicide o...
10. Reviews - Stonemouth | The StoryGraph
Taking place over a long weekend the story unfolds with a mixture of narrative and flashbacks to explain the background relationships and the reasons why ...
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11. Review: Stonemouth, Iain Banks - Girl with her Head in a Book
Jan 12, 2013 · The flashbacking has always been a strong suit of Banks', the ghastly childhood accident that led to the death of Wee Malky is told in ...
I’ve mentioned before about how The Crow Road is one of my favourite ever books. Banks as a writer is one of the most varied I have ever come across – […]
12. 'Stonemouth' Episode 2 review: Peter Mullan remains fantastic - CultBox
Jun 18, 2015 · Christian Cooke (Demons) makes for a strong young lead and plays the part of the tortured Stewart well. Brooding yet confused, he tries to find ...
This second part to the BBC’s Iain Banks adaptation has a lot to resolve, given all the plot elements set up in the first episode. With so much to tie up, it’s no wonder that this concluding episode of Stonemouth doesn’t quite deliver on a satisfying resolution. Director Charles Martin does an amazing job of … >
13. Stonemouth, BBC Two | The Arts Desk
Jun 12, 2015 · Pacy and racy, but BBC's new Iain Banks adaptation nearly trips over its own coincidences. TV review by Matthew Wright.
A young man, in trouble with drunk or drugs, returns to his Scottish family riven by dark secrets? Of course, it’s a new Iain Banks dramatisation, the first since the author’s death two years ago. This version of his 2012 novel Stonemouth attempts to recreate the success the BBC enjoyed with its 1996 adaptation of Banks’s Crow Road.
14. Stonemouth by Iain Banks | Goodreads
Jan 1, 2012 · Read 649 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After 5 years in exile his presence ...
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After 5 years in…
15. Reviews - Stonemouth | The StoryGraph
There is real menace for the hero Stewart who had been run out of town 5 years before but returns for a funeral with a gang leaders permission. At heart it's a ...
16. Review of Stonemouth by Iain Banks - Captain Maybe - WordPress.com
Oct 3, 2012 · A crime/romantic drama set in a Scottish coastal town, the eponymous Stonemouth (often referred to as the Toun by the characters).
As with my last reviewed book, Robert Rankin’s The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age, this is one that I only got hold of and read shortly before the release of the autho…
17. Review: Stonemouth (S1 E1/2), Thursday 11th June, BBC2
Jun 12, 2015 · Stewart Gilmore (Christian Cooke) returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of his best mate, Callum, who (supposedly) took his own life by jumping off ...
Stonemouth isn’t your usual crime drama, in so far that there aren’t any police procedural elements to it. Instead, and like the 1996 series, The Crow Road, Stonemouth is about a young …
