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Book Synopsis Gorbals Diehards by : Colin MacFarlane
Download or read book Gorbals Diehards written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow. During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable characters, including foul-mouthed drunks, thieves, razor-flicking gang members, con men, fly men and street brawlers. Through it all, MacFarlane and his band of brothers retained their sense of humour while roaming the filthy, stench-ridden Gorbals backstreets. In the third volume of his acclaimed memoirs, bestselling author Colin MacFarlane reveals what it was like to grow up on the streets of the Gorbals during this period. Be prepared to be shocked and entertained at the adventures of the gang that called themselves the Incredible Gorbals Diehards.
Book Synopsis Ye Wee Italian Bastird by : Ron Rossi
Download or read book Ye Wee Italian Bastird written by Ron Rossi and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into an Italian immigrant family in the early 1930s Renaldo Rossi gives, at times, a humorous insight into life as it was for him then. At the onset of World War II his young life was thrown into turmoil when, aged nine, he witnessed his father, now an enemy alien, being taken away in hand cuffs and he, his mother and younger brother being forced out of their home and taken To The east coast of Scotland and placed in the poorhouse, with tragic consequences. His later life took him in many directions, leaving the family business to work in the illegal world of gambling and to smuggling religious books and images into Communist Russia where he mingled with the people.
Download or read book Benny written by John Burrowes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Before Benny, nobody from the Gorbals became World Champion of anything...' Benny Lynch was Scotland's first World Boxing Champion and the most talked-about British sportsman of his generation. In fact, many consider him to be the finest fighter the country has ever produced. Benny is the amazing account of how Lynch battled his way above and beyond the 'fifty-shilling men' of his home town of Glasgow to become the champion of Scotland, Britain, Europe and the world, earning a reputation as one of the greatest pugilists of all time. But this absorbing biography also details how his career sadly came to a premature halt because of Lynch's alcoholism, which destroyed his health and led to him being abandoned by his countless followers. It took his tragic death at the age of only 33 to restore the fallen idol to legendary status again. The gritty reality of the daily grind of life in the Depression-era Gorbals is captured vividly in this remarkable story of the rise and tragic fall of a fighting legend.
Book Synopsis T2 Trainspotting (Movie Tie-in) by : Irvine Welsh
Download or read book T2 Trainspotting (Movie Tie-in) written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Major Motion Picture Here is the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still fighting for the first-class seats as the train careens at high velocity with derailment looming around the next corner. In this world, even the cons get conned. Sick Boy and Renton jockey for top dog, and out-of-jail and in-for-revenge Begbie is on the loose. But it’s drug-addled Spud who may be creating the most trouble.
Download or read book T2 Trainspotting written by Irvine Welsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other. T2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.
Download or read book Shanty Gold written by Jeanne Charters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Charters interweaves many important topics—immigration, civil rights, women’s rights—into her exciting novel . . . An evocative portrait of South Boston.” —Kirkus Reviews After the deaths of her mother and infant sister during Ireland’s Great Famine, thirteen-year-old Mary Boland makes her way to the Queenstown harbor and onto a coffin ship bound for America. But what happens during her transatlantic passage is enough to quash the strongest of dreams. After being assaulted by crewmembers, Mary thinks of ending her life—until a young Black slave named Kamua comes to her rescue . . . Forming a bond as strong as siblings, Mary and Kam reach Boston, determined to forge their own paths. No longer an innocent soul, Mary trusts no one, putting her faith in her own instincts. It is on the teeming streets of South Boston that she’ll find a new home and a new purpose as a midwife, helping poverty-stricken women survive their pregnancies. And it is in this city, full of possibility, where Mary’s heart will heal, and find the strength to survive the harsh choices she is forced to make, and grow into a woman true to herself . . . “The story of a young Irish girl’s struggles told with an authentic, historically accurate voice.” —Sallie Bissell, author of the Mary Crow series “To read Shanty Gold is to immerse oneself in a wild ride of discovery, romance, and the search for a new way of life. . . . A tale that will grab your heart and senses, with twists and turns along the way.” —Susan Blexrud, author of the Fang series
Download or read book Skagboys written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Mark Renton’s life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans. Set against 1980s Thatcher-era Edinburgh—with its high unemployment, low expectations, and hard-to-come-by money and drugs?Irvine Welsh’s colorful crew lunges from one darkly hilarious misadventure to the next. Gritty, moving, and exhilarating, Skagboys paints their dizzying downward spiral with scabrous humor and raw language.
Book Synopsis No Mean Glasgow by : Colin MacFarlane
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.
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works, with Selections from the Scottish Poets Before Burns by : Allan Ramsay
Download or read book The Poetical Works, with Selections from the Scottish Poets Before Burns written by Allan Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay. With Selections from the Scottish Poets Before Burns. Edited by C. Mackay. (Remarks on the Genius and Writings of A. Ramsay. By W. F. Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.) Illustrated with ... Engravings on Steel by : Allan Ramsay
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay. With Selections from the Scottish Poets Before Burns. Edited by C. Mackay. (Remarks on the Genius and Writings of A. Ramsay. By W. F. Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.) Illustrated with ... Engravings on Steel written by Allan Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blood Acre written by R.J. Mitchell and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from his exploits in The Shift, Constable Angus Thoroughgood finds himself assigned to Community Policing in the crime-ridden Briarknock area of Glasgow - an area known for its horrific drugs problem, violent petty crime, and unemployment. It's also home to The Creepers, a notorious team of housebreakers whose reign of terror must come to an end. However, it's not just The Creepers that Thoroughgood must contend with. Working with his partner Harry Currie, the Scottish detective must battle corruption within the force and work to stop a plot that would destroy cities across the North of England, discovering a fabled piece of Glasgow criminal folklore along the way - the Blood Acre.
Book Synopsis The Life of Robert Burns by : James Currie
Download or read book The Life of Robert Burns written by James Currie and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson by : Robert Fergusson
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson written by Robert Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Name Is Never Was by : John Callaghan
Download or read book My Name Is Never Was written by John Callaghan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your life worth if you're nobody famous? What would you give to be somebody...anybody?Britain's most sensational TV show is under attack from a fanatical religious cult and Stevie McCabe is in a desperate race to discover what the sect is planning, while tracing a stalker whose threatening internet videos are increasingly disturbed.At the heart of the case - a charismatic young woman who embodies the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, a devious fantasist inventing new identities, the sleaziest tabloid reporter on the planet and an ex-magician planning his greatest trick - to fill his pockets with millions.As always, the city of Glasgow is a vivid backdrop for acts of mayhem, corruption and homicidal intent, in a landscape peopled by crooked police, gay brides, dying philosophers, spiritual gurus, teenage thugs and the missing.
Book Synopsis Derry Women Series Box Set (1-3) by : Gerald Hansen
Download or read book Derry Women Series Box Set (1-3) written by Gerald Hansen and published by Mint Books. This book was released on with total page 2164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword from Colin Quinn. When Ursula and Jed Barnett win the lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they've just begun. Ursula's sister-in-law Fionnuala Flood rallies the family against them. Why should the Barnetts live in luxury when the Floods are eking out a meager living? A hilarious, sad, insightful series about the politics of envy. A must-read for anyone from a dysfunctional family, and even from a functional one! From the hilarious and heartbreaking bestseller An Embarrassment of Riches ("A masterpiece"--Colin Quinn) to the laugh-a-minute world tour of Fleeing The Jurisdiction, all your favorite characters from Derry, Northern Ireland are here: mother-from-hell Fionnuala Flood, kind but feisty Ursula Barnett, their husbands Paddy and Jed, and Fionnuala's children, Dymphna, Siofra and all the others. Wince, gasp, laugh at their adventures from the lottery win to the Titanic cruise, from the Semtex in the canned vegetables to the liaisons in the fish factory! The first three books of the beloved series are together in this classy box set. (Please note, book four Best Served Frozen and book five Static Cling not included here)
Download or read book Talbot Company written by Michael Regal and published by Michael Regal Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophia Fortezza, an Italian merchant's daughter, seeks to escape her debtors through a life of adventure and romance. At the outset of the Thirty Years War, Sophia is about to experience the trauma of battle and the pain of the whip. But she need not endure these shocks alone. New friends like the Spanish soldier Don Alfonso and the English peasant James Fletcher will all suffer equally under the banner of the honorable Talbot Company. Chapters 1 to 29 will be hosted for free on royalroad.com
Book Synopsis Proverbial Sayings; or the Spirit of the wit and wisdom of former times; being a complete collection of the best English, Scotch, Italian, Spanish, and other proverbs. To which are subjoined, the wise sayings, maxims, and reflections, of the most illustrious ancients by :
Download or read book Proverbial Sayings; or the Spirit of the wit and wisdom of former times; being a complete collection of the best English, Scotch, Italian, Spanish, and other proverbs. To which are subjoined, the wise sayings, maxims, and reflections, of the most illustrious ancients written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
