Many writers make a territory their own. Dickens did it with London. Irvine Welsh defined an area of Edinburgh. Bill Duncan's skewed vision of Dundee is a match for both' The Times From the enclosed, austere fishing community of Broughty Ferry to the implacably encroaching tower-blocks of nearby Dundee, Bill Duncan's narrative resonates with the voices of the living and the dead. Haunting, evocative and eccentric, The Smiling School for Calvinists memorably conjures up a traditional community reluctantly confronting the modern world.