Download or read book Glasgow Wiseguys written by Joe Dullerson and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow Wiseguys (part 1) Glasgow Wiseguys and smart alecs embark on a lurid journey of Decline and Fall in keeping with the fine traditions of Scottish rebellion.. Non-conformity is the only way out of the authoritarian Presbyterian trap as the demons of Calvin's heritage are exorcised through lowlife meanderings and involvement with the less salubrious side of life. Glasgow Wiseguys Out of Order (part 2) Glasgow wiseguy Hector McKay sees himself as the agent of Dr.Skull, a robot version of God. In due course, after failing to belong and conform, he finds himself in the hands of a world totalitarian system and ends up dying after electric shock treatment in a high security mental hospital. Glasgow Wiseguys Over the Top (part 3) Most people have no idea what to do and as un-reconstituted male dinosaurs Kenneth, Mickey, Bill and Archie are no exception. They are lost in a new world dominated by women who have no patience with traditional men and their antediluvian emotions. _____________________________________________________________________ The book is written with pathos, black humour and gives an original perspective on the contemporary post-hippy outlook.

Download or read book Glasgow Crimefighter written by Les Brown and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, on the other, a police force with officers as hard as the gangsters, striving to keep the city safe. In GLASGOW CRIMEFIGHTER, legendary detective Les Brown tells the extraordinary and controversial inside story of his part in this conflict during his twenty-two years as a Glasgow detective. Throughout this time, he dealt with gangland bosses like Arthur Thompson and Tam McGraw, took on mobs of street fighters and helped in the hunt for Bible John. Compelling, hard-hitting and intensely human, GLASGOW CRIMEFIGHTER is a fascinating report from the frontline of a great city's battle against crime.

Download or read book No Mean Glasgow written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again. In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.

Download or read book Glasgow s Black Heart written by Douglas Skelton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland. It is a city of culture, of impressive architecture, enterprise and endeavour, and is one of warm-hearted, generous people. But it also has a dark side. Beneath the busy streets, the Victorian sandstone and urban trendiness lies a black heart that beats in rhythm with the roar of the traffic and the echo of footsteps on concrete. It is a black heart pumped by greed and lust, violence and murder. And it has beaten since the city first sprang up on that dear, green place on the banks of the Molendinar Burn. This is the epic story of Glasgow crime. Beginning in 1624 when the Tolbooth was built at Glasgow Cross to house the courts and town jail, author Douglas Skelton covers four centuries of Glasgow's hidden history, tracing the formation of the first paid police force in Britain, the Black Assizes of the circuit court and the formation of the city's own High Court of Justiciary. Here you will find the pimps and pushers, gangsters and gangleaders, rioters and robbers who flooded the veins of the city. Famous felons rub shoulders with their less notorious, but equally vicious, counterparts. Here also are the thief-takers, cops, lawyers and judges who tried to stem the gushing flow, some with more success than others. These stories may not be what the City Fathers would like to see on Glasgow's CV, but they are as much a part of its traditions and its legacy as the fish, the bell and the tree.

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Download or read book Glasgone written by Nancy Bagato and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Scotsmen with the same name walk into a bar..."Please tell me urnae hustlin." Nick gave his pal a dirty look over his shoulder. "Ah ken whit Ah'm daein.""Dain't get onieyin malkied, mind," groused Nick Two. "Shut it, ya muppet. This isnae Glesga. It's the States," he growled back. "An' a pathetic wee toon at tha'.""Oh aye. The States. So ye'll get someyin shot, then. Fantastic."Born and bred in the tenements of Maryhill, Glasgow, Dr. Nick Kerr unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events that convinces him it's high time to stop watching everyone leave him behind and be the one who's moving on. When opportunity knocks, he snatches a fresh start in small college-town America. Just before boredom threatens to finish him off, his past begins to unravel the present. Add a persistent childhood friend the same name, a sexy femme fatale obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, a jealous blonde, and long-lost relatives, and Nick discovers that stealing the perfect life may not have been a brilliant move after all. Secrets and lies threaten to make his sanity, future, and everything he cares about not just long gone--Glasgone.A valentine to Glasgow and all things Scottish, Glasgone explores how the secrets that define us will either destroy us or set us free.

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Download or read book A Small Weeping written by Alex Gray and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series*** Whether you've read them all or whether this is your first Lorimer novel, THE DARKEST GOODBYE is perfect if you love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE LORIMER SERIES: Warm-hearted, atmospheric' ANN CLEEVES 'Relentless and intriguing' PETER MAY 'Move over Rebus' DAILY MAIL 'Exciting, pacey, authentic' ANGELA MARSONS 'Superior writing' THE TIMES 'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH _______________ When a murdered prostitute is found in a Glasgow train station, DCI Lorimer is perplexed by the ritualistic arrangement of her body. It isn't long before there is another murder and he realises there's no time to waste if he is to stop Glasgow's latest serial killer. A taut, suspense-filled thriller, A Small Weeping takes the reader on a gripping journey from the inner city to the wilds of the Scottish Isles, and far into the darkest depths of human nature. _______________ ***PRAISE FOR ALEX GRAY*** 'Convincing Glaswegian atmosphere and superior writing' The Times 'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Rankin evokes Edinburgh' Daily Mail 'Exciting, pacy, authentic' Angela Marsons 'Sums up everything that is golden and enthralling about a good book' Fully Booked

Download or read book Wise Guys written by Devyn Baron and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scotland the Movie written by David Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account of film in Scotland taking a unique and entertaining look at a nation's erratic relationship with the movies.

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Download or read book The Power of the Stones written by Andrew G. Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.

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Download or read book The Glasgow Magazine of Wit Original Selected written by GLASGOW MAGAZINE. and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aalst written by Duncan McLean and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A programme text produced with the National Theatre of Scotland to coincide with the UK tour, Aalst is a powerful and disturbing drama about two parents who murder their children. The play is based on real events from the Belgian town of Aalst in 1999 where the ensuing high profile and dramatic trial led to much soul-searching in the Belgian media. A young couple check into a hotel with their two small children. A week passes before the police make a chilling discovery. In 2005 Belgian theatre company, Victoria, dramatised the case, working from source material including statements and interviews, TV footage of the trial and a documentary on the murder investigation. Produced in theatres and festivals across Europe, Aalst has built a reputation as a powerful and complex piece of modern theatre which raises disturbing questions that have no easy answer.

Download or read book The Uncomfortables written by Gates Whiteley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down Below (also known as Hell), chaos reigns. Junior devils, Ishtar and Scabrous, have failed in their efforts to control the life of their patient, Jack. As punishment, they are transformed into hounds for mortal combat. To escape and avoid execution for their failures, these devil dogs seek refuge in the Harrows. Since Noah's Flood, the Harrows has been a refuge for those excluded from heaven and hell. In the desert lands of the Harrows, a spring flows at the place where a mysterious itinerate Jewish preacher appeared long ago. The occupants of the Harrows are warned not to drink from the constantly flowing spring. In 1979, Jack arrives in isolated West Berlin to fulfill his ongoing responsibilities as executor of his murdered wife Sarah's estate. Intent on repatriating Sarah's collection of Nazi stolen art, Jack is distracted by a former lover, Aydin. Aydin flees from the clutches of her crazed uncle, who, intent on effecting an honor killing, has killed Sarah by mistake. In West Berlin, Jack must stay a step ahead of criminal forces intent on seizing Sarah's art while dealing with Aydin, who has machinations of her own.

Download or read book Petrification written by Zoe Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night before the funeral was when he told us that he was getting the lot and I said, I said only then in retaliation, you know, and I am not proud of this, but how Dad had, how he had smashed his glass and cried, cried for Simon when he rang home to tell him how he had failed his exams, how it broke his dad's heart. Simon and Sean's dad is dead. Returning home from London, Simon is shocked to find Sean in a relationship with a man called Aidan. Sean is irritated by Simon's new cosmopolitan ways. And Aidan? He just wants to be part of the family. This is a play for anyone who ever left home and comes back to find everything changed. And for anyone who never went away in the first place. Attempting to find common ground, they head out for a booze-fueled night in Gateshead. Before long they are arguing. What is it about the memory of a childhood trip to Whitby that sets them off? Darts, pints and fists fly across the room, as past and present collide with dizzying consequences. Petrification received its world premiere at Live Theatre, Newcastle, on 23 May 2016, before a UK tour, presented by Telltale in association with LittleMighty.