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  • Its Colours They Are Fine

    by Alan Spence ...
    Series series Canons
    A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence’s celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change. From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks on bright Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights in dark, pulsing dancehalls, these interlinked ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Tall Tales and Wee Stories

    The Best of Billy Connolly

    by Billy Connolly ...
    80TH BIRTHDAY EDITION - NOW WITH 10 NEW TALL TALES!THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.When he fi... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Wedding Dress Maker

    by Leah Fleming ...
    A warm, compelling historical story of love, loss and triumph.Yorkshire, 1945: Netta Nichol lives in the shadow of a terrible disgrace. After bearing a son out of wedlock, Netta was banished from her beloved Galloway to a Yorkshire mill town. She must stand aside as her son is raised by family back home.Bereft and broken-hearted, Netta finds solace in the quiet pleasure of sewing. Despite the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Jessie's Journey

    Autobiography of a Traveller Girl

    by Jess Smith ...
    From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • There's Only One Danny Garvey

    A powerful, moving, darkly funny novel about FOOTBALL, community and second chances – SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTTISH FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

    by David F. Ross ...
    A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and redemption, when everything seems lost…'Hugely evocative and unashamedly sympathetic to the hopes, dreams, passions and, sadly, failures felt by both players and fans' Stanchion Books: 'Nine football novels ... Read more

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  • Somewhere To Lay My Head

    by Robert Douglas ...
    We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant ... Read more

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  • Trainspotting

    by Irvine Welsh ...
    Series Book 2 - Mark Renton
    Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tears for a Tinker

    Jessie's Journey Concludes

    by Jess Smith ...
    In the third and final book of Jess Smith's autobiographical trilogy, Jess traces her eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhood, her father's 'tall tales' and the eerie echoes of ghosts and hauntings that she has heard from gypsies and travellers over many years. ... Read more

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  • Concise Dictionary of Scottish Words and Phrases

    by Betty Kirkpatrick ...
    A concise but comprehensive collection of Scottish words and phrases. ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Whistlers Of The Dark

    by Helen Susan Swift ...
    Series Book 4 - Tales From The Dark Past
    Scotland, 1899. When young orphan Ellen Luath starts work as a kitchen maid in a remote farm, she hopes she has left her troubled past behind.But something is not right at Kingsinch farm. Soon, supernatural forces of long past return to haunt Ellen, and she finds herself in a circle of darkness that invades her mind, and threatens her life.As time and place alter, can Ellen keep her sanity, and ... Read more

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  • Tales from the Tent

    Jessie's Journey Continues

    by Jess Smith ...
    From the author of Jessie's Journey, a memoir of finding her own way in the world after growing up in a family of Scottish travellers.As Tales from the Tent begins, Jess Smith has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus she lived in as a child has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. ... Read more

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