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Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story Of A Second World War Prisoner Of The Japanese
Andy Coogan - Hardback - Mainstream
Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory, but a promising running career was interrupted by war service. His capture during the fall of Singapore marked the beginning of a three-and-a-half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease. This is his story.
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David Steel: Rising Hope To Elder Statesman
David Torrance - Hardback - Biteback
The first fully authorised biography of one of the most influential politicians of the second half of the 20th century. David Steel became the leader of the Liberal Party in 1976, and one of the youngest party leaders in British history.
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Gangsters, Killers And Me: A Detective's Story
Gerard Gallacher - Paperback - Black & White
An account of a police career at the sharp end of the action by a detective who wouldn't toe the line. As well as giving his forthright views on the less than exemplary conduct of some senior officers, Gallacher now reveals what really happened behind the scenes in some of the country's most high profile cases.
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Law, Life And Laughter: A Personal Verdict
Irvine Smith - Paperback - Black & White
Legendary Sheriff Irvine Smith QC is one of the most formidable lawyers of his generation. Called to the Bar in 1953, he was involved as Counsel in some of Scotland's biggest cases and also defended five capital murder trials before the abolition of the death penalty. Here he gives his expert verdict on life, laughter and the law.
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The Importance Of Being Awkward: The Autobiography Of Tam Dalyell
Tam Dalyell - Paperback - Birlinn
In this memoir - based on personal papers as well as official documents, many of them recently declassified - Tam Dalyell looks back over a lifetime of dedicated service as MP for West Lothian and Linlithgow.
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A Life In Pictures
Alasdair Gray - Paperback - Canongate
Alasdair Gray is known throughout Europe and beyond for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who is responsible for many murals, portraits, paintings and posters. In this autobiography he gathers together the paintings that have mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through them.
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Once Upon A Time: The Lives Of Bob Dylan
Ian Bell - Hardback - Mainstream
This text draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal.
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Young James Herriot: The Making Of The World's Most Famous Vet
John Lewis-Stempel - Paperback - BBC
This is the story of James Herriot's formative years at veterinary college. It shines a light on his calling to work with animals, his early friendships and his quest for veterinary knowledge.
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Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel
Anne Strathie - Hardback - History
Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antartic, yet he also met his death on the journey. This biography, drawing on Bowers' letters, journals and previously neglected material, sheds new light on Bowers and tells his full story.
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From Land To Rail: The Life Of Andrew Ramage, 1854-1917
Andrew Ramage - Paperback - NMS
Andrew Ramage was the son of a farm servant who subsequently became a dock worker, lorry driver and a railwayman. Of the diary he kept over many years only three notebooks remain, accounting the life of a young man making his way in the world at a time of great social and economic change.