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Deadly Divisions

The Spectre Chronicles

by Paul Ferris, Reg McKay
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012

Glasgow, 1989. James Addison, aka Addie, has been a very busy man. Wanted for every type of crime for over a decade, there is only one hitch - he has never been seen, let alone caught. So, who or what is Addie? Does he even exist? When a small-time moneylender pimp is shot down on a Glasgow...
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Clubland UK

On the Door in the Rave Era

by Steven McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Clubland UK is a story of violent men and the worlds they inhabit. At the height of the hedonistic ’90s rave era, Steven McLaughlin policed some of Blackpool’s busiest seafront clubs on chaotic nights, as the virulent dance and drug craze exploded onto the scene. From the front line, he...
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The Lone Brit on 13

A Prisoner's Hell in Spain's Toughest Jail

by Christopher Chance
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012

The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned for drug-smuggling, the lone Brit on Wing 13, Chance, reveals the horrors he experienced among cut-throat villains and screws in the netherworld of the...
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Better to be Feared

Jail Life in the Raw

by Sean Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011

Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails. Never having had any contact with criminal justice previously,...
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In Flanders Fields

Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War

by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012

This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr,...
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by Ken Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012

Ken Gorman has gathered together a superb collection of fight reports, personal testimonies and reminiscences from some of the greatest boxers the world has ever seen. Spanning over four decades, this book features forty breathtaking encounters. Was there ever a more stunning victory than that of...
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by Graham Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011

'If those pricks want a war, lad, we'll show what some proper soljas can do.' Dylan, Nogger and their crew 'tax' rival drug dealers using a red-hot steam iron and celebrate by making videos of themselves raping wannabe WAG s. In their world, guns and knives are as common as mobile phones. But...
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Democracy

1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty

by Peter Kellner
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Democracy is Britain's gift to the world. Most of the ideas and ideals that have shaped the world's democracies can be traced back to arguments and reforms that first erupted here. Democracy tells the thousand-year story of the bitter battles over those arguments and reforms, in the words of...
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by Bernard O'Mahoney
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011

In December 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys firm were executed in their Range Rover after being lured to a deserted farm track by the promise of a lucrative drug deal. The police predicted that the void left as a result of the murders would cause a gangland war that would extend...
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The Long Patrol

The British in Germany Since 1945

by Roy Bainton
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011

When the Allies occupied Germany at the end of the Second World War, there were two million men present to witness the devastating end of the Third Reich. Few of them could have imagined just how long this occupation was going to last - right up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and well into...
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Tomorrow You Die

The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

by Andy Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory, but a promising running career was interrupted by war service. His capture during the fall of Singapore marked the beginning of a three-and-a-half-year nightmare of starvation, torture...
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For Richer, For Poorer

Rangers: The Fight for Survival

by Paul Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012

The start of the 2011–12 season should have marked the dawn of a bold and brave era for Rangers Football Club, as new owner Craig Whyte accepted the keys to Ibrox from Sir David Murray. But football became a sideshow during Whyte’s first campaign as tax rows, court action and the plunge into administration...
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The Krays: A Violent Business

The Definitive Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Brothers in Crime

by Colin Fry
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011

Twins Ron and Reg Kray were without doubt the most powerful, violent and deadly gangsters that London has ever known. They ran protection rackets, clubs and casinos, as well as fraudulent 'long firms'. They blackmailed, intimidated and killed - for many years with impunity thanks to their powerful...
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Play Away Please

The Tale of the Sale of Golf's Greatest Icon - The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box

by John P. Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box was sold in a controversial international auction on 10 September 2001, the day before the infamy of the Twin Towers attack. 'Play Away Please' recounts the glory of the little building in St Andrews, 'the home of golf', and tells the tale of those who used...
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