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Add to BasketMaggie & Me
£12.74
- Hardback - Bloomsbury
It is 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Maggie Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. -
Add to BasketMaggie & Me
£10.19
- Paperback - Bloomsbury
It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Maggie Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. -
Add to BasketA Mother's War: One Woman's Fight For The Truth Behind Her Son's Death At Deepcut
£11.04
- Hardback - Mainstream Publishing
Yvonne Collinson Heath will never forget the telephone call that changed her life for ever. On 23 March 2002, her elder son, James - a private with the Royal Logistic Corps - was found dead in mysterious circumstances at the notorious Deepcut barracks. He had a single gunshot wound to the head. It was a tragedy that to this day raises questions. 'A Mother's War' recounts Yvonne's anguish at losing her son, a boy who dreamed of serving his country but died before he had even reached his 18th birthday. -
Add to BasketThe Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life Of John Lorne Campbell Of Canna
£8.49
- Paperback - Birlinn
This is the story of a remarkable man and his triumph over adversity, bank managers and bureaucrats to fulfil his dream. Even after he gave it to the National Trust for Scotland he still had to fight to secure his legacy. -
Add to BasketMrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady
£6.79
- Paperback - Bloomsbury
A story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, 'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love. -
Add to BasketMrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady
£14.44
- Hardback - Bloomsbury
A story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, 'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love. -
Add to BasketThe Moneymaker
£9.99
- Paperback - Bantam
Set in the 18th century, this is the true story of John Law, mathematical genius, duellist, inveterate gambler, womaniser and inventor of the first paper money. -
Add to BasketThe Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life Of John Lorne Campbell Of Canna
£12.99
- Paperback - Birlinn
This is the story of a remarkable man and his triumph over adversity, bank managers and bureaucrats to fulfil his dream. Even after he gave it to the National Trust for Scotland he still had to fight to secure his legacy. -
Add to BasketMaxwell's Ghost: An Epilogue To Gavin Maxwell's Camusfearna
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
This is a personal and sympathetic look at the author of Ring of Bright Water in his last tumultuous years by one of his closest friends. It provides an honest portrait of Maxwell through the destruction of Camusfearna to his acceptance of death. -
Add to BasketMarshall Law: The Life & Times Of A Baltimore Black Panther
£9.35
- Paperback - AK
In 1970 the FBI framed Marshall Conway for the murder of a Baltimore city police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison and tried to relegate him to a life marked by nothing but legal appeals, riots and lockdowns. 40 years later, still incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, Marshall Conway continues to resist.
