This Good Book

Glasgow School of Art graduate Susan Alison MacLeod resolved to put Douglas MacDougall on the cross in the Crucifixion painting she's been sketching out, but her work doesn't see the light of day for 14 years. Over the same years, Douglas's ever-more elaborately designed urine-filled plastic bags bring him exponentially increasing fame, prizes and commissions, while his modelling for Susan Alison, who continues to work pain and suffering on to the canvas, takes place mostly in the shadows. 'This Good Book' is a wickedly funny novel that spins the moral compass and plays with notions of creating art.