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  • Gorbals Diehards

    A Wild Sixties Childhood

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own 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.During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Write Out of the Classroom

    How to use the 'real' world to inspire and create amazing writing

    by Colin Macfarlane ...
    Write Out of the Classroom is a ground-breaking, highly practical book which provides teachers and creative writing tutors with great ways of tapping into the huge inspirational and educational potential of the richly diverse world beyond the classroom walls.Effective learning occurs when the process feels exciting, inspiring and ‘real’, and there is nothing more stimulating and ‘real’ than the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Real Gorbals Story

    True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • No Mean Glasgow

    Revelations of a Gorbals Guy

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Hit the Headlines

    Exciting journalism activities for improving writing and thinking skills

    by Colin Macfarlane ...
    Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as:Writing and editing.Critical assessment.Interviewing and observation.Mental flexibility and resourcefulness.Role-playing and teamwork.This book will enable teachers of 9 – 15 year-olds to involve their students i... ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Great Glasgow Characters

    by John Burrowes ...
    There are few cities in the world to rival Glasgow and the extraordinary happenings that have occurred there, and in this engrossing sequel to Great Glasgow Stories, more of the finest of these are recounted.From the story of the biggest youth movement the world has ever known to the life and crimes of Scotland's most colourful criminal, Johnny Ramensky, whom even the police dubbed 'Gentle Johnny' ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Glasgow's Godfather

    The Astonishing Inside Story of Walter Norval, the City's First Crime Boss

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked gargantuan thirsts and plotted murder and mayhem. Before he had reached his teens, close relatives ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Glasgow Trilogy

    The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.

    by George Friel ...
    Series Book 30 - Canongate Classics
    Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community.All ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

    by Robert Douglas ...
    This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blue Above the Chimneys

    by Christine Marion Fraser ...
    Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Roy Shaw Unleashed - He's a one man killing machine. This is his story by those who know him best

    by Kate Kray, Roy Shaw ...
    When Kate Kray wrote" Pretty Boy, " she interviewed scores of people. Almost without exception, as she was leaving, they would say to her, "I'll tell you something about Roy--but don't tell him I told you..." These stories were too shocking and close to the bone to include without Roy's permission, and now that permission has been granted. "Roy Shaw Unleashed" is a collection of those stories, as ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Gangs of Glasgow

    True Crime From the Streets

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. And for some citizens of the Dear Green Place, brawling is in the blood and gang warfare is a way of life. The stinking deprivation of the Gorbals and the East End, deprivation that helped spawn pre-war gangs like the Billy Boys, the Norman Conks and the Redskins, is largely gone, but in each era new ... Read more

    $5.39 USD