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As I Lay Me Down To Sleep Eileen Munro
When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 17, she was told to give her baby away to a good family, but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. This is Eileen's story.
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Bravemouth: Living With Billy Connolly Pamela Stephenson
Mrs Billy Connolly's tale of an extraordinary year living with her husband offers an insider's view of his filming, his charity works, his 60th birthday party and television. It includes personal insight into what makes him tick, and what makes her tick (it's her year too).
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Catherine Carswell: A Biography Jan Pilditch
Catherine Carswell was heir to Glasgow's 19th century, its godliness, its realism, its modernity, and its sentimentality. As a well travelled 20th-century woman, who lived in London from 1910, she visited Italy, Germany, France, and met most of Stalin's cabinet in pre-war Russia. This book presents an account of her life.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: 1868-1928 Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell
Mackintosh was one of the early pioneers of modern architecture and design. His work constitutes an important link between the movement in Britain towards artistic reform and the Modern Movement on the continent.
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Glasgow Taxi Jack Clyde
Jack Clyde was born in Glasgow in the early fifties. His father was a cab-driver and, in time, a fleet owner, so he was born into the trade and from an early age was enlisted to help clean the cabs. As he grew he too became a cab-driver, and this is his account of a working lifetime spent driving the citizens of Glasgow from place to place.
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Lorraine: The Biography Of TV's Best-Loved Presenter Neil Simpson
Millions have been waking up to breakfast television presenter Lorraine Kelly for more than 20 years - from TV-am and GMTV through to This Morning and LK Today. This biography charts her extraordinary life and career.
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Maxton Gordon Brown
James Maxton was Britain's most charismatic socialist politician of the inter-war period. He was the MP for Bridgeton from 1922 until his death in 1946. Gordon Brown's biography depicts one of the great periods in the history of the Labour movement.
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A New Kind Of Life: An Informal Autobiography Helen Lillie
This is the life story that takes the reader from World War 1 Glasgow, through 40s and 50s New York to modern day Washington DC. Helen Lillie's life has mirrored the march of women's self direction from domestic appendage to independent citizen.
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The Quest For Charles Rennie Mackintosh John Cairney
This biography of the life of Charles Rennie Mackintosh not only explores the work and legacy of the Scottish artist, but also examines his relationship with his wife Margaret Macdonald, which ended with his sudden death, aged 60.
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Growing Up In The Gorbals Ralph Glasser
'The Ralph Glasser Omnibus' describes the author's impoverished childhood and adolescence in Glasgow's slum tenements.
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