Ian Spring returns to his native city and to his childhood and life there as a young man to rediscover Glasgow past and view Glasgow present, in the Real series. Visiting the new city Spring discovers a series of other cities: Radical Glasgow, Secret Glasgow, Literary Glasgow, Sporting Glasgow, Multi-cultural Glasgow, Gay Glasgow. Essentially the book is about the sum of these too. As the author puts it: Glasgow: a great sprawling industrial metropolis built and rebuilt time and time again on the banks of a little burn that still pokes out its head now and again. A city of extravagant Victorian buildings, parks and burying grounds, art deco cafs, fanatical football fans, artists, writers and bon vivants.