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Wee Danny

Author : Gerard Brennan
Publisher : Blasted Heath Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908688548
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Wee Danny written by Gerard Brennan and published by Blasted Heath Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incarcerated in a home for young offenders, Wee Danny Gibson has learned how to act in front of his teachers, his educational psychologist and the institute's supervisors. And if he continues to keep his nose clean, he could be rewarded with a day-trip to Castle Ward. But good behaviour is no easy task when his fellow inmates are determined to get in his face. Then there's Conan 'The Barbarian' Quinlan, a gentle giant who Danny feels compelled to look out for. Friend or liability? Danny can't be sure, but he knows he needs to stay focussed on that little taste of freedom. Wee Danny is an 18,000-word novella by the author of Wee Rockets. "Gerard Brennan has always been a writer with a great flair for character and this has come to the fore in Wee Danny, a large hearted character piece which, despite the subject matter, is actually really touching." - Loitering With Intent "a tough and tender coming-of-age novella ... Wee Danny is a touching, very funny and realistic study of loyalty and friendship" - You Would Say That, Wouldn't You Praise for Wee Rockets, a Danny Gibson novel "The Wire? This is Barbed Wire. A cheeky slice of urban noir, a drink-soaked, drug-addled journey into the violent underbelly of one of Europe's most notorious ghettos, Wee Rockets makes The Outsiders look like the Teletubbies" - Colin Bateman "Gerard Brennan stands apart from the Irish crime fiction crowd with a novel rooted in the reality of today's Belfast. The author's prose speaks with a rare authenticity about the pain of growing up in a fractured society, shot through with a black humour that can only come from the streets. Wee Rockets is urban crime fiction for the 21st century, and Brennan is a unique voice among contemporary Irish writers." - Stuart Neville "In Wee Rockets Gerard Brennan has written a fast paced, exciting story of West Belfast gang culture; brimming with violence, authentic street dialogue and surprising black humour. This is a great debut novel. Brennan takes us into the heart of Belfast's chav underclass, in a story that lies somewhere in the intersection between The Warriors, Colin Bateman and Guy Ritchie. This is the first in what undoubtedly will be a stellar literary career. - Adrian McKinty

Wee Rockets

Author : Gerard Brennan
Publisher : Blasted Heath Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908688130
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Wee Rockets written by Gerard Brennan and published by Blasted Heath Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gang of fourteen-year-old hoods rampage through West Belfast, indulging in violent street crime and mugging pensioners to pay for cider, cigarettes and sweets. Branded scum by a shocked community and pursued by a dogged local vigilante, the young gangsters' antisocial behaviour soon escalates into something much worse. "The Wire? This is Barbed Wire. A cheeky slice of urban noir, a drink-soaked, drug-addled journey into the violent underbelly of one of Europe's most notorious ghettos, Wee Rockets makes The Outsiders look like the Teletubbies" - Colin Bateman For fans of A Clockwork Orange, Kidulthood, The Wire, Boyz n the Hood or City of God set in Belfast- and for anyone with an open mind about disaffected, disenfranchised youth in modern urban society. What they're saying... "Gerard Brennan stands apart from the Irish crime fiction crowd with a novel rooted in the reality of today's Belfast. The author's prose speaks with a rare authenticity about the pain of growing up in a fractured society, shot through with a black humour that can only come from the streets. Wee Rockets is urban crime fiction for the 21st century, and Brennan is a unique voice among contemporary Irish writers." - Stuart Neville "In Wee Rockets Gerard Brennan has written a fast paced, exciting story of West Belfast gang culture; brimming with violence, authentic street dialogue and surprising black humour. This is a great debut novel. Brennan takes us into the heart of Belfast's chav underclass, in a story that lies somewhere in the intersection between The Warriors, Colin Bateman and Guy Ritchie. This is the first in what undoubtedly will be a stellar literary career." - Adrian McKinty "Brennan impressed me hugely with his debut novella The Point, and Wee Rockets has cemented my opinion that he belongs among the top rank of Northern Irish crime writers." - Loitering With Intent "So assured and mature you'd think this was his eight or ninth book, not one of his first." - Spinetingler Magazine "This is a tremendous book and I urge you to read it." - I Meant To Read That From the author... "I think the main theme is that of nature versus nurture. The characters are presented as products of their environment. I don't think it's a judgemental book; it simply shows you how these kids and adults react to certain situations. The reader may not always approve of the action taken but hopefully they can understand what has informed it. It's also an exploration into how good people can do bad things and bad people can do good. I've purposely tried to blur that line so that the characters aren't simply black or white. Morally they operate in shades of grey. It's my hope that a character you hated in the first chapter can grow into a hero by the final act and vice versa."

Busted Scotch: Selected Stories

Author : James Kelman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347109
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Busted Scotch: Selected Stories written by James Kelman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-06-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 35 short stories—most of them being published in this country for the first time—has been selected and arranged by James Kelman himself from over two decades of his work. The stories of Busted Scotch are set in the working-class milieu of Scotland and England—the pubs, betting shops, tenements, bedrooms, snooker parlors, and decaying industrial workplaces. They range widely in length from a few paragraphs to twenty-plus pages, in style from the deceptively offhand to the highly farcical, and in subject matter from the casual everyday tragedies to the heartbreaking vicissitudes of romance and language.

Once Upon a Crime - I Grew Up in Britain's Hardest City, Where the Only Way to Survive Was on Your Wits

Author : Jimmy Cryans
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843587602
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Crime - I Grew Up in Britain's Hardest City, Where the Only Way to Survive Was on Your Wits written by Jimmy Cryans and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Jimmy Cryans. A story of growing up in Glasgow’s east end during the 1950s and 1960s and how he became involved in a life of crime. Jimmy speaks about the various characters he met and his dealings with some of Britain’s major criminals. He reveals how petty theft and shoplifting quickly snowballed into armed robbery with raids on banks, jewelers, and security vehicles. But Jimmy’s story also explains his lifelong quest to find himself and how it eventually led to triumph over adversity. At times funny and uplifting, and at others sad, above all this is a real life story that will inspire.

Match Fixer

Author : Neil Humphreys
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814346055
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Match Fixer written by Neil Humphreys and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Match Fixer takes place inside the murky underbelly of Asian Football. The so-called squeaky clean city-state of Singapore plays host to betting syndicates which have for decades fed off the insatiable illegal gambling habits of the local population and in the process made a select few bookies very rich and far too powerful. Neil Humpreys, a former Football correspondent for the national Singapore press, lifts the lid off a previously unexplored - but very real - subject. In his debut novel, corruption is destroying the Beautiful Game in Asia and has spread its tentacles into the UK via spread betting cartels that have already knocked out floodlights and caused chaos in the English Premier League. Against such a background, former West Ham United apprentice striker Chris Osborne arrives in Singapore for a final roll of the dice to get his once promising career back on track. However not even a boyhood spent growing up in the East End prepares him for the crooked shenanigans, bloated former British footballing jetsam and the underground party drugs scene that welcomes him to life in paradise.

Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories

Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories written by Robert Byrne and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-one stories on pool and billiards written over the past 150 years. The authors range from Pushkin to Vachss, the stories from Wallace Stegner's The Blue-Winged Teal, on competition between a father and a son, to Bill Pronzini's science fiction story, The Hungarian Cinch.

Longest Journey

Author : Betty McInnes
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780103891
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Longest Journey written by Betty McInnes and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish historical saga of exile, disaster, secrets . . . and love - The Scottish Highlands, 1848. Mary-Ann Macgregor's life is full of quiet contentment with her husband Ewan. But when her son Davey befriends a new arrival to the village, Janet, he sets in motion a disastrous chain of events. Harshly punished for a minor crime, Ewan and Davey are sentenced to exile in Australia. Mary-Ann is determined to keep her family together, but her past is catching up with her, and soon her children will know the secret she has tried so hard to keep . . .

1979

Author : Val McDermid
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802159036
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book 1979 written by Val McDermid and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish journalist is drawn into a world of corruption, terror, and murder in the new novel by “one of crime fiction’s most eminent writers” (Entertainment Weekly). The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities. But Allie is a woman in what is still a man’s world. Desperate to get away from the “women's stories” the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies. First an international tax fraud, then a potential Scottish terrorist group aiming to cause mayhem ahead of an impending referendum. And then Danny is found murdered in his flat. For Allie, investigative journalism just got personal. The debut of an intense new series, 1979 is an atmospheric journey into the past with intriguing insight into the present, from a Diamond Dagger winner and multiple Edgar Award finalist. “The queen of psychological thrillers.” —Irish Independent “There are few other crime writers in the same league.” —The Washington Post

The Young Team

Author : Graeme Armstrong
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529017343
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Young Team written by Graeme Armstrong and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Times top ten bestseller Granta Best of Young British Novelists Scots Book o the Year Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland’s former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors. 2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi [YTB] begins. 2012. Azzy dreams of another life. He faces his toughest fight of all – the fight for a different future. Expect Buckfast. Expect bravado. Expect street philosophy. Expect rave culture. Expect anxiety. Expect addiction. Expect a serious facial injury every six hours. Expect murder. Hope for a way out. Inspired by the experiences of its author, Graeme Armstrong, The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom, violence and threat of life on these streets. It looks beyond the tabloid stereotypes to tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young people in Britain today. ‘A swaggering, incendiary debut’ – Guardian ‘Dialect that fizzes off the page’ – Observer ‘One of the most admired young voices in British fiction’ – The Times

The Con Artist

Author : Victoria Webster
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803811544
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Con Artist written by Victoria Webster and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mitch married Marnie, he promised her a spontaneous life of adventure and travel. Alone in the rented one-bedroom flat in Luton, Marnie wondered where she had gone wrong. Mitch, on the other hand, had hit the jackpot. Married to a placid wife who asked no questions, and plenty of time on his hands, gave Mitch the opportunity to perfect his career as a con artist. As a master of disguise, he set up multiple profiles on dating websites with the sole aim of targeting single and divorced women. Using flattery and charm, and elaborate plots and ploys, he reeled in his unsuspecting female victims with the intention of defrauding them financially, and then disappearing. Becoming increasingly confident, and flush with money from his recent successes, Mitch and Marnie move to a wealthy neighbourhood in the suburbs. Here, we see Mitch meticulously planning his most audacious scam to date - the conning of a group of people who are his neighbours, some of whom have their own secrets.

Scottish Short Stories

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

There's Only One Danny Garvey

Author : David F. Ross
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1913193519
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book There's Only One Danny Garvey written by David F. Ross and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A promising young football player returns home to his tiny 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... 'A brilliant, bittersweet story that captures the rawness of strained relationships, set against the struggles of a failing lower-league football team. Ross's best novel yet' Stuart Cosgrove –––––––––––––––––––––––– Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, and a glittering future beckoned. And yet, his early promise remained unfulfilled, and Danny is back home in the tiny village of Barshaw to manage the struggling junior team he once played for. What's more, he's hiding a secret about a tragic night, thirteen years earlier, that changed the course of several lives. There's only one Danny Garvey, they once chanted ... and that's the problem. A story of irrational hopes and fevered dreams – of unstoppable passion and unflinching commitment in the face of defeat – There's Only One Danny Garvey is, above all, an unforgettable tale about finding hope and redemption in the most unexpected of places. –––––––––––––––––––––––– Praise for David F. Ross 'A real new talent on the Scottish literary scene' Press & Journal 'By turn hilarious and heart-breaking, more than anything Ross creates beautifully rounded characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope' Liam Rudden, Scotsman 'David Ross carved out an enduring place for himself among contemporary Scottish novelists' Alastair Mabb, Herald Scotland 'A warm, funny consideration of reconciliation between middle-aged friends and a celebration of music's healing powers. Suggest to fans of Nick Hornby' Library Journal 'Warm, funny and evocative. If you grew up in the eighties, you're going to love this' Chris Brookmyre 'Dark, hilarious, funny and heart-breaking all at the same time, a book that sums up the spirit of an era and a country in a way that will make you wince and laugh at the same time' Muriel Gray 'An astonishing tour de force' John Niven 'This is a book that might just make you cry like nobody's watching' Iain MacLeod, Sunday Mail 'Crucially Ross's novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour within a few sentences' Press & Journal 'Full of comedy, pathos and great tunes' Hardeep Singh Kohli

Blackwatertown

Author : Paul Waters
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783529245
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Blackwatertown written by Paul Waters and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Extremely intriguing with intricate twists and turns' Frederick Forsyth When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is inside the police. But a lot can happen in a week. Over seven days Macken falls in love, uncovers dark family secrets, accidentally starts a war and is hailed a hero and branded a traitor. When Blackwatertown explodes into violence, who can he trust? And is betrayal the only way to survive?

A Gambler's Guide to Dying

Author : Gary McNair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783199563
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book A Gambler's Guide to Dying written by Gary McNair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the odds of living an extraordinary life? This is the story of one boy’s granddad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000. An intergenerational tale of what we live for and what we leave behind. Gary McNair and director Gareth Nicholls return to the Traverse after last year's award-winning, fivestar showDonald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian.

At the Edge

Author : Danny MacAskill
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241973279
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book At the Edge written by Danny MacAskill and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I've already had my nine lives on the bike...' Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like 'The Ridge': nerve-jangling blurs of stunts and speed over towering buildings and mountain peaks. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills and millions of online hits. It hasn't been an easy ride. Fear, stress and the 'what if?' factor circle every trailblazing trick, which require imagination, daredevil techniques and movie-making smarts. He has spent his life pushing the extremes; somehow, he's still around to tell the tale. In this unflinching memoir of mayhem, Danny shares his anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a street trials rider, takes us behind the scenes of his training and videos, and reveals what it takes to go beyond the next level - both mentally and physically. Join Danny for a nerve-shredding ride. Just be sure to bring a crash helmet.

David Weir: Extra Time - My Autobiography

Author : David Weir
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 144473377X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book David Weir: Extra Time - My Autobiography written by David Weir and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Weir's career is a tale of triumph on the pitch but also of victory over the assumption all top-level footballers are finished in their mid-30s. Weir, who turned 41 in May 2011, is the oldest outfield player to represent Rangers since 1945, passing the mark set by their famous full-back, Jock 'Tiger' Shaw. In this revealing autobiography, Weir gives an insight into the high of playing in the 1998 World Cup finals for his country to the low of the chaotic 2-2 draw in the Faroes four years later which led to his decision to stop playing for Scotland. For the first time, he gives his side of the story. How he felt Berti Vogts, Scotland's boss, used him as a scapegoat. Many felt Weir's international career would end on that sour note and that his club career was approaching its conclusion, too. He was 32 and David Moyes, his manager at Everton, made no secret he was on the lookout for new, younger defenders. Like thousands of footballers before him, Weir could just have accepted his time was up. He had a young family and a father who was suffering from Alzheimer's to help care for and self-doubt gnawed at him. Could he cut it any more? Instead, he moved to Rangers in January 2007, making his debut for his childhood favourites at a mere 36 years and 236 days and has helped them to eight trophies since and a European final in 2008. Weir's is a story of battling against the odds to keep playing at the top level and proving he could, despite the doubts of others and indeed himself.

Gathered and Scattered

Author : Neil Paynter
Publisher : Wild Goose Publications
ISBN 13 : 1849520259
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Gathered and Scattered written by Neil Paynter and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily readings for four months from a wide range of contributors within the Iona Community, reflecting the concerns of the community. A follow-up to the best-selling This Is the Day.