Black White Publishing: 284 books
by Mairi Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
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In just a few heartbreaking days, Lexy Shaw's world has fallen apart. After her mother is killed in a tragic hit-and-run, her mother's childhood guardian, Ursula, also dies suddenly, leaving everything to Lexy. But as Lexy reads through Ursula's hidden papers,...
It Won't Hurt a Bit
Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life....
Square Mile of Murder
Horrific Glasgow Killings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Four of Britain's most notorious murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre around the turn of the last century. Madeleine Smith was accused and found 'Not Proven' of lacing her doomed lover's late night cocoa with arsenic; an 83-year-old woman was brutally battered to death;...
Glasgow: The Real Mean City
True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation....
Lion Rampant
The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing...
by Chris Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Scotland is a country brimful of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will provide a Scots word. In Scottish Wildlife, Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries will introduce...
The Law Killers
New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journalist Alexander McGregor has unique insight into the cases and his stories are as chilling as they are compelling. In The Law Killers Alexander examines...
by Bruce Sandison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Sandison's Scotland is a wonderful collection of stories and tales about some of the country's most wild and evocative places. From dark Loch Ness to the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, join Bruce on the path less travelled as he goes behind the scenes of Shetland's Up Helly Aa festival and...
by Isabel Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
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While her mother is at home giving birth, eleven-year-old Isa must look after her younger siblings, but when her little sister is killed in an accident on a trainline she carries the guilt through the rest of her life.
As Isa grows up, more tragedy strikes:...
Killers, Crooks and Cons
Scotland's Crimes of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
KILLERS, CROOKS AND CONS chronicles the astonishing crimes that horrified 20th-century Scotland. Taking each decade in turn, Reg McKay tells the true tales of the crimes that shook the nation, often the world. And these crimes will shock you still. From serial killers to armed mobsters and poisoners...
The Last Godfather
The Life and Crimes of Arthur Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
It used to be thought that no single person could rule the mean streets of Glasgow. Arthur Thompson proved this to be wrong. From an ordinary working-class family, Thompson started out as a bouncer and minder. Hard yet bright, he learned quickly. Cross him and you'd be scarred. Cheat him and he nailed...
McGraw
The Incredible Untold Story of Tam 'The Licensee' McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Tam McGraw was one of Glasgow's most dangerous gangsters. He rose from poverty in the city's East End to amass a vast fortune from crime and, when he died in 2007, his empire stretched from Glasgow to the Canaries. When he was alive, few would talk openly about the man known as 'The Licensee'. But...
Glasgow's Godfather
The Astonishing Story of Walter Norval the City's First Crime Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked...
Ross Harper
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Throughout his glittering career, Ross Harper was a major figure in Scottish law, politics, journalism and business. He was a key player in many of Scotland’s most high-profile legal cases from the 1960s to the 1990s, including the Albany Drugs Case and the Glasgow Rape Case, after having ambitiously...