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Add to BasketCurious Scotland: Tales From A Hidden History
£12.74
- Hardback - Granta
George Rosie unearths and illuminates many neglected aspects of Scottish history in a rich collection of episodes that range from the Picts to the Indian tribes of North America. -
Gorbals Diehards: A Wild Sixties Childhood
£6.79
- Paperback - Mainstream
During the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had a gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow. Here, MacFarlane reveals what it was like to grow up on the streets in the Gorbals during this period. -
Leading From The Front: My Story
£7.64
- Paperback - Mainstream
Gerald Ronson reveals how he fought his way to the top of the business ladder, lost everything twice, then clawed his way back up again. -
Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer And Secret Agent
£7.64
- Paperback - Mainstream
For the first 25 years of his criminal career, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster, king of the New York underworld. For the next 25 years of his life, Luciano was a legend, but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. -
MacLean's Miscellany Of Whisky
£8.49
- Paperback - MAX
Charles MacLean explains how whisky has changed over the last 100 years, what gives it its beautiful amber colour, how its simple ingredients come together to produce such a diversity of flavours, what changes have taken place in distilling and bottling, how Scotch can best be enjoyed and much more. -
Robert Craufurd: Wellington's Wayward Martinet
£16.99
- Hardback - Pen & Sword Military
To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd usually evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and Spain, driving them hard. However, it is only half of the picture of this most complex character and it is the other half that has never before been revealed. -
Tommy's Peace: A Family Diary, 1919-33
£11.04
- Paperback - Mainstream
Thomas Cairns Livingstone began to note his day-to-day experiences in 1913 and continued faithfully for the next 30 years. With each witty and well-observed entry, he recorded events at home and abroad through times of war and peace, joy and sadness. In this follow-up to 'Tommy's War', the focus is on the post-war years. -
King Of Cuba
£12.74
- Paperback - Sandstone
El Comandante, an ageing Castro-like dictator, shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur as his nearly 60-year-old revolution. Over in Florida, Goyo Herrera, a Miami exile in his 80s, plots revenge against the same El Comandante whom he blames for stealing his beloved, ruining his homeland and taking his father's life. Shifting between the two men with resonance and humour, Cristina Garcia's novel plumbs the passions and realities of these two Cubas - on the island, and off. -
The Extinction Of Snow
£7.64
- Paperback - Sandstone
A woman receives an email from her son which reads: 'I am sacred. Comfot me.' Does he mean scared? And does he mean 'come for me' or 'comfort me?' Shortly after that she learns of his death, an apparent road traffic accident on a French country road. A piece of music plays over in her head telling her that something is not right about the version of events she has been told. She decides to investigate, and this leads her on a bewildering journey across England, on to Paris, and eventually to the French village where he died. -
Lost For Words
£10.19
- Hardback - Macmillan Children's Books
Tapir and his friends all have nice new notebooks, just waiting to be filled. Giraffe decides to write a poem, Hippo writes a story and Flamingo composes a beautiful song. But poor Tapir can't think of anything to write and the harder he tries the more upset he becomes!
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