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Murder Capital
Life and Death on the Streets of Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Murder Capital of Europe: that's Glasgow. A city more lethal than London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Dublin or strife-torn Belfast. But what's the truth behind the headlines, the real story on the streets of Glasgow? And who has earned the city its shocking and brutal reputation? Murder Capital leads...
Peterhead
Inside Scotland's Toughest Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling Barlinnie Story and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge'...
Scotland's Cruel Sea
Heroism and Disaster off the Scottish Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
High cliffs jutting out into the Atlantic and the North Sea, many hundreds of rocky skerries, deep sea lochs, dangerous unseen reefs, powerful tides and gales that batter the land fiercely from all points of the compass . . . Scotland has a coastline of immense beauty and danger, and its cruel sea...
Giants of the Clyde
The great ships and the great yards
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
There is barely a corner of the five great oceans where Clyde-built is not recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. As late as the 1950s, around a seventh of the total of the world’s sea going tonnage was built on the Clyde. It is not a particularly wide river, nor spectacularly long –...
Lighting Candles
A Paramilitary's War with Death, Drugs and Demons
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook's shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller.
A hundred years ago its appearance was that of picturesque grandeur....
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
On the north-eastern shores of England there is a town called Monkshaven, containing at the present day about fifteen thousand inhabitants. There were, however, but half the number at the end of the last century, and it was at that period that the events narrated in the following pages occurred....
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
My father was a poor clergyman with a large family. My mother was always said to have good blood in her veins; and when she wanted to maintain her position with the people she was thrown among,—principally rich democratic manufacturers, all for liberty and the French Revolution,—she would...
Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters
Crime in the 19th Century Aberdeen and the North East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Ravaged by riots, vice and violence, nineteenth-century Aberdeen was very different from the city we know now. Danger lurked around many corners. Truculent fishermen rioted on the coast. 'Resurrection men' snatched dead bodies for anatomists' experiments. Children became career criminals. Railway...
Bloody Scotland
Crime in 19th Century Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could...
Manuel
Portrait of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The true story behind the notorious serial killer Peter Manuel, and Detective William Muncie's quest to bring him to justice, recently dramatised in the major ITV drama In Plain Sight.
In a two-year killing spree, Peter Manuel terrorised a city. As the people of Glasgow held their breath and anxiously...
Lies, Damned Lies and Anglers
The One That Got Away and Other Fishy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
When fishing, there's always an element of chance. And the occasional opportunity to exaggerate just a bit, especially about the one that got away. In Lies, Damned Lies & Anglers, Bruce Sandison searches for the truth about angling, with all it's pleasures and frustrations, and reveals some of...
by Russell Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Romans 9:21—“Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?”
Just what is the Apostle Paul saying to us in these precious words? Simply this—the Almighty God has power over the clay! Yes, God makes us,...