The Big Man

First UK edition
Author	William McIlvanney
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton (UK), William Morrow & Co (US)
Publication date	1985 (1985) (UK), 1 May 1986 (1986-05-01) (US)
Pages	256
ISBN	978-0688064051

The Big Man is a novel by William McIlvanney published in 1986 based on real life miner and bare knuckle boxer Thomas Tallen. The book was adapted into a film directed by David Leland, The Big Man (1990), which stars Liam Neeson, Billy Connolly, and Hugh Grant.

Plot

This novel relates the story of Dan Scoular, an unemployed man who turns to bare-knuckle boxing to make a living.^[1]