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Another Feg by Jim Green
Born in Feegie. Built by everything that tried to stop him.
On the 20th of December 1950, Jimmy Green walked from a building site through a freezing Paisley night to Barshaw Maternity Hospital, lifted his newborn son up toward an indigo sky and asked God to look after him. That boy was Jim Green. What followed was a life that neither the scheme nor anyone in it could have predicted.
Another Feg is Jim Green’s memoir of growing up in Ferguslie Park, Feegie, one of the most deprived housing schemes in Scotland. It begins in a damp attic room in Abercorn Street and ends in a country house six miles from where it all started. Between those two points: bankruptcy and boardrooms, offshore survival work in the North Sea, organised crime, two gang attacks, two attempts on his life, a farm in Denmark, the corridors of Westminster and the Queen’s Garden Parties.
A Feg, in the language of Paisley, is someone from Ferguslie Park. The title carries no apology. Jim Green wore that identity into every room he ever walked into, including the ones he was never supposed to reach.
The cover artwork was commissioned from John Byrne, the celebrated Scottish artist. He is also a Feg.
Another Feg
The World of the Book
Feegie was not a place that made things easy. The model lodging house in Abercorn Street, where Jim’s parents rented an attic room for the first years of his life, sat beside a rat-infested river. The coal ran out in winter. His father carried hods of twenty-two bricks up timber scaffolding ladders for a living. His mother scrubbed the room every day with almost no furniture in it and her good coat going in and out of the pawn shop on New Sneddon Street.
And yet Another Feg is not a book that asks for sympathy. It is a book that pays attention. Jim Green renders Feegie in the kind of detail that only comes from having lived it, the smell of carbolic in the school corridor, the weight of a hundredweight of coal hitting the bunker, a shopping list that ran across four different shops in Falcon Crescent, the exact texture of a December night in Paisley when your father has just become a father and cannot stop dancing.
This is where Jim Green came from. He never stopped being from there.
This is where Jim Green came from. He never stopped being from there.
A Life That Earns Every Page
You will read about a man who went bankrupt and moved to a farm in Denmark to start again, and did.
You will read about working offshore in the North Sea, saving lives in real emergencies in some of the worst conditions those waters produce. About getting drawn into security work and organised crime, being shot at twice, attacked by gangs twice and walking away from both.
You will read about standing in a chapel at Aylesford Priory, no, that is the other book. In Another Feg you will stand on a building site in Paisley in 1950 and watch a young father run through the frost to meet his newborn son. You will sit in Grannie Isa’s living room in front of the coal fire eating hearty Scotch broth. You will watch Jim Green climb, out of Feegie, out of bankruptcy, out of circumstances that would have finished most people, without ever losing the thread back to where he started.
By the final page, when he describes finishing the manuscript because death had started to feel like a near neighbour, you will not feel like you have read a memoir.
You will feel like you have kept someone company across an entire life.
The Feg Is Still Standing.
Jim Green was born in a hospital on the outskirts of Paisley on a freezing December night in 1950. He was lifted up toward an indigo sky by a father who asked God to look after him.
God, it turns out, was fairly busy. Jim largely sorted it himself.
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About the AuTHoR
Jim Green
Jim Green grew up in Ferguslie Park, Paisley, in the 1950s and 60s, a community the rest of Scotland wrote off before most of its residents had finished primary school. He did not stay written off.
He went to university. He lectured there. He built a business, lost it to bankruptcy and rebuilt himself on a farm in Denmark before returning to work in some of the harshest offshore environments in the North and Irish Seas. He worked in security, brushed against organised crime, stood as a candidate for the Scottish Government and served as election agent and coordinator for senior Labour figures including Jim Maxton, former Secretary of State for Scotland under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He visited No. 10 Downing Street. He attended the Queen’s Garden Parties.
FAQS
What is Another Feg about?
Another Feg explores themes of identity, humour, and everyday struggles, often presenting relatable situations through a distinctive narrative style.
Who is Jim Green?
Jim Green is a writer known for his engaging storytelling and ability to blend wit with meaningful observations about life.
What genre does Another Feg belong to?
The book is generally considered contemporary fiction, with elements of humour and social commentary.
Is Another Feg suitable for all age groups?
The suitability depends on the reader’s maturity, but it is typically aimed at young adults and older readers due to its themes and language.
What makes Another Feg unique?
Its originality lies in its voice, character development, and the way it presents ordinary experiences in a fresh and entertaining manner.
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“My life has been eventful, challenging, frightening, sad, happy, adventurous and wonderful. I remain without fear and unvanquished.”
— Jim Green, January 2025
