Farquhar Mcharg: 5 books

“¡PISTOLEROS! is the story of twentieth century anarchism as witnessed by McHarg, a Glaswegian anarchist engineer who became embroiled in Spanish revolutionary politics at the end of the First World War. Curiously echoing the editor Christie’s own life fifty years later, the youthful and naïve...

Paris, 1976: Gunmen kill Farquhar McHarg’s lifelong friend and fellow anarchist, forcing him into a race to document an epic history before he too is silenced. The first volume finds him dropped into Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the end of the great imperialist war of 1914–1918, recruited...

In Farquhar McHarg’s autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg’s liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists. McHarg tells of a corrupt...

Pistoleros! 2: 1919 is the second volume of the memoirs and notebooks of Farquhar McHarg, a seventy-six-year-old anarchist from the Govan district of Glasgow, the writing of which was prompted by the murder, in October 1976, of his lifelong friend, Laureano Cerrada Santos. McHarg’s Chronicles record...

Autobiography is essentially an act of confession. Some people can’t bring themselves to do it; others just can’t be stopped. Sometimes what comes out is so unbelievable it’s easy to mistake it for fiction. In the case of “The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg”, you couldn’t make it up if...