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  • It Tolls For Thee

    A guide to celebrating and reclaiming the end of life

    by Tom Morton ...
    A funeral celebrant from the Shetland Islands reveals how celebrating mortality—and creating a personalized space for grief—enriches lives and gives meaning to death.Part self-help, part memoir, this is a funny and thoughtful journey into the world of undertakers and death cafes, of pilgrimages and taboos . . .After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realized he needed a change of pace and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • St. Matthews

    Series series Images of America
    St. Matthews, once a prominent neighborhood of Louisville, is now a fourth-class city within metro Louisville. The first settlers came to the area in the 1780s, and for more than a century St. Matthews was largely an agricultural area where farmers specialized in growing potatoes. By 1900, a commercial district had grown at the intersection of several roads, known locally as the Point, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing in the Streets

    The Classic Glasgow Memoir

    The classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom MortonThis is Clifford Hanley's vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and '30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist.His razor-sharp observations and anecdotes cover many topics, from family life, art and showbiz to politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing in the Streets

    The Classic Glasgow Memoir

    This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley’s sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist in the 1940s and 1950s. A natural-born raconteur with a marvellous ear for dialect, Hanley has an extraordinary ability to bring alive the people and places to give a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oppenheimer

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    1939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its power from the very building blocks of the universe.Struggling to cast off his radical past and thrust into a position of power and authority ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tom Morton-Smith Plays 1

    In Doggerland, Oppenheimer, The Earthworks, Ravens

    Series series Contemporary Dramatists
    Tom Morton-Smith is an Olivier Award-winning playwright whose works for the stage span intimate theatrical biopics to scientific explorations and broad epics. In this, his first play collection, his major stage works are brought together for the first time in a definitive edition showcasing his extensive range as a dramatist, and introduced by the author himself.In Doggerland*: “Morton-Smith's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Holy Waters

    Searching for the sacred in a glass

    by Tom Morton ...
    Tom Morton, keen motorcyclist, funeral celebrant and whisky aficionado, takes us on a journey around the globe, exploring the links between famous alcoholic spirits and spirituality.Waters of life. Distilled spirits of all kinds have borne that name, in various tongues, since time immemorial. Aqua vita. Eau de vie. Uisge Beatha.Tom Morton has travelled the world in search of the finest drams the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Decarbonising Electricity

    The Promise of Renewable Energy Regions

    The current shift to renewable energy is dominated by globalised energy companies building large-scale wind and solar plants. This book discusses the consequences and possibilities of this shift in India, Germany, and Australia, focusing on regions which have now largely decarbonised electricity generation. The authors show how centralised models of energy provision are maintained, and chart their ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • From ‘Carbon Democracy’ to ‘Climate Democracy’?

    Edited by James Goodman, Tom Morton ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    What are the democratic requirements for effective climate action? how can ‘climate democracy’ be conceptualised?Liberal democracies emerged on the back of fossil fuels, creating what Tim Mitchell called ‘carbon democracy’. Three decades of climate policy have affirmed the controlling influence of fossil fuel interests. Runaway climate change now threatens the very foundations of social life. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Salt Meets Wound

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Dylan Singer needs to leave London. With his alcoholic ex-fiancée he heads to Central Asia, to research the book he's always dreamt of writing. But it's 2002, the height of the War on Terror, and Uzbekistan isn't the belly-dancing opium den they have been led to believe.From 11th Century Samarkand, through the Great Fire of London, to a disused weapons facility in the remotest place on earth, Salt ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ravens

    Spassky vs. Fischer

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Reykjavik, 1972. All eyes are on Iceland ahead of 'the Match of the Century': Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer. For the two contenders, the stakes have never been higher – the world title, unprecedented prize money, and stratospheric fame are all on the table. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shetland

    Cooking on the Edge of the World

    "A wonderful slice of home, food and family from one of the most beautiful places on earth: this book is heaven." – Jenny ColganShetland is where Scotland meets Scandinavia and the North Sea hits the Atlantic Ocean. Isolated, unspoilt and rich in history and tradition, Shetland is a truly singular place. And for James and Tom Morton, it’s home.Shetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World explores ... Read more

    $27.99 USD