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“max scratchmann”

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  • Bad Girls - Eight Noir Stories

    by Max Scratchmann ...
    Bad girls, wicked women; lecherous, treacherous villainesses; hedonistic harlots, and plain old-fashioned bunny-boiling temptresses.Immerse yourself in a feast of delectable depravity with these eight blackly humorous tales, spanning the familiar gothic grimoire of murder, lust and revenge with rapacious relish.Lascivious lesbians, manipulative mad-women and gruesome gold-diggers are just a few of ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chucking It All

    by Max Scratchmann ...
    Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum, Chucking It All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls.With its remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish island, Chucking It All uncovers the frightening realities of relocating to "a magical island lost in the mists of time" as you follow the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Burrah Sahibs

    by Max Scratchmann ...
    A warm and witty look at the unofficial last years of British Colonial Life as seen through the eyes of a small boy growing up out East in the dissolving remnants of the British Raj... After being compulsorily retired from an Indian jute mill and returning to Dundee in the mid 1960s, Max Scratchmann's family cannot settle down to life in Scotland. So, when the chance of a three-year contract in ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

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    When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, 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. Then, when their marriage broke down, they failed to protect her from sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend.After watching ... Read more

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  • In My Mother's Hands

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