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  • Its Colours They Are Fine

    by Alan Spence ...
    Series series Canons
    A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence’s celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change. From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks on bright Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights in dark, pulsing dancehalls, these interlinked ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Trainspotting

    by Irvine Welsh ...
    Series Book 2 - The Trainspotting Novels
    Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Skagboys

    by Irvine Welsh ...
    Series Book 1 - The Trainspotting Novels
    Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Tall Tales and Wee Stories

    The Best of Billy Connolly

    by Billy Connolly ...
    80TH BIRTHDAY EDITION - NOW WITH 10 NEW TALL TALES!THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.When he fi... ... Read more

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  • The Wedding Dress Maker

    by Leah Fleming ...
    A warm, compelling historical story of love, loss and triumph.Yorkshire, 1945: Netta Nichol lives in the shadow of a terrible disgrace. After bearing a son out of wedlock, Netta was banished from her beloved Galloway to a Yorkshire mill town. She must stand aside as her son is raised by family back home.Bereft and broken-hearted, Netta finds solace in the quiet pleasure of sewing. Despite the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Filth

    by Irvine Welsh ...
    With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Jessie's Journey

    The True Story of a Gypsy Childhood

    by Jess Smith ...
    A "remarkable" account of a family's years wandering Scotland and England in a bus, living the traditional life of their people ( Caledonia).From the ages of five to fifteen, Jess Smith lived with her parents and sisters and a mongrel dog in an old blue bus. They traveled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

    by Robert Douglas ...
    This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it ... Read more

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  • Marabou Stork Nightmares

    by Irvine Welsh ...
    Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto.But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to ... Read more

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  • There's Only One Danny Garvey

    A powerful, moving, darkly funny novel about FOOTBALL, community and second chances – SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTTISH FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

    by David F. Ross ...
    A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and redemption, when everything seems lost…'Hugely evocative and unashamedly sympathetic to the hopes, dreams, passions and, sadly, failures felt by both players and fans' Stanchion Books: 'Nine football novels ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Somewhere To Lay My Head

    by Robert Douglas ...
    We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant ... Read more

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  • Tears for a Tinker

    The True Story of a Gypsy Childhood

    by Jess Smith ...
    More "heartwarming reminiscences" of Scottish Traveller life from the author of Jessie's Journey and Tales from the Tent ( Sunday Post).In this book, Jess Smith concludes her riveting autobiographical trilogy, tracing her eventful life with Dave and their three children from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhoods, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus