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Telling Tales is a nostalgic and beautifully written account of growing up on a small family farm which vividly evokes a way of life that, although so recent, is now all but forgotten. For Jane Yeadon, growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland in the 1950s was at times idyllic - but it could also...

It’s 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly in love with the dashing but unattainable Ewan, Freda instead throws herself into a hairdressing career, and soon she and her best friend Robin have established their own flourishing business. The...

The story of Dundee is both fascinating and dramatic. Now, in Dundee – A Short History, Norman Watson brings to life the people and events that shaped this great city from its origins and early development, through centuries of poverty and prosperity to the golden years of jute, jam and journalism...

Jack Webster is one of the most popular journalists writing in Scotland today. Voted Newspaper Columnist of the Year in 1996, his weekly columns in The Herald have won him a huge and loyal audience throughout Scotland. The Herald Years reflects the extraordinarily wide range of Jack's interests, experiences...

Most killers are men. But never turn your back on a woman. Murder, madness and maliciousness abound in this hangman's dozen of she-devils. Culled from over five hundred years of bloody history by crime writer and journalist Douglas Skelton, these pages uncover the mad, the bad and the dangerous to...

Ann Rawsthorne takes up her new appointment as arts teacher at a private school in the Highlands of Scotland, expecting a quiet and lonely time. She finds life is anything but quiet, with boys falling into bogs and dying on the games field, none of which is helped one jot by the headmaster, who seems...

Kevin Twaddle was a footballer who was always prepared to take a risk on the park but it was off it where he really gambled. The former Hearts, Motherwell and St Johnstone winger speaks openly for the first time about his secret betting addiction that saw him blow more than a million pounds and wrecked...

"Pierce, dix-sept ans, a échappé à la mort… mais la Mort l’a rattrapée. Et finalement, Pierce ne trouve pas son sort si regrettable. Car elle est tombée amoureuse de John Hayden, Gardien des Enfers. Pour passer l’éternité avec lui dans le monde des ténèbres, elle est prête à...

Il est impossible de s'échapper du royaume des morts si quelqu'un veut que tu y restes. Pierce, dix-sept ans, n'est pas morte. Mais John Hayden, Gardien des Enfers, la retient prisonnière dans les limbes. Il prétend la protéger de certains défunts, tous ceux qui nous ont quittés ne nous sont...

Un recueil de cinq nouvelles délicieusement effrayantes. Des bals de promo de lycée tournant à l'horreur, des vampires diablement séduisants et de jolies filles, bref quand la beauté et le cauchemar s'associent, la littérature se pimente !

Even angels sometimes have to act on faith to get the Plan back on track… Samuel, a secret agent angel on Earth, sometimes has to improvise when things go badly wrong. Over forty years of angelic missions come to a head in a fire at a snowbound truck stop when a fire demon comes to destroy...

Joe Kirk lost a leg. Lonnie Blifield lost his eyes. Victoria Roundtree lost her skin. “Zan” Zander lost his mind. Four homeless and hopeless Iraqistan Vets who accidentally end up living together on an old school bus. With nowhere to go, and nothing else to do, they lurch from one VAMC to another,...

Thomas Harris, 21 ans, est étudiant en lettres à Harvard. Grand amateur de littérature policière, il se retrouve momentanément mêlé à une enquête en cours, portant sur une série de meurtres, dont les victimes sont toutes des enfants. C'est aussi à cette période que le jeune homme commence...

Dundee, City of Discovery, is known around the world for its innovation, its jute and music, and its vibrant culture. But the critical role of the city's whaling fleet and the wealth it generated for Dundee for more than a century is less well known. Ancestors in the Arctic is a remarkable collection...