Stuart Pearson: 4 books
by Stuart Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
How did the Irish independence movement lead directly to the invention of the modern submarine? Who was the Irish 'Queen' of Paraguay whose delusions of grandeur caused the destruction of her adopted country? Who escaped execution for participating in the Easter Rising of 1916, only to go on and be...
Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice
Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they...
BitterSweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. While many...
by Stuart Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Which Scottish anti-slavery campaigner lost a son in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War? Was the enemy of Scotland's first 'freedom fighter' not England, but ancient Rome? What was the laboratory accident that led to one of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine?...