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  • A Glasgow Trilogy

    The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.

    by George Friel ...
    Series Book 30 - Canongate Classics
    Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community.All ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Start-up PUSH

    A Guide for Developers, Directors and Residents Incubators, Accelerators, and Science Parks

    by Terri Friel, George Vukotich ...
    This book explores, documents and establishes how to help founders start businesses with the collaboration of local and international resources. An incubator, accelerator or science park all have this goal but provide a variety of foci and support. At a minimum, it’s important to not only attract entrepreneurs but to have support services that can include mentoring, financial support and other ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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  • The Real Gorbals Story

    True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • No Mean Glasgow

    Revelations of a Gorbals Guy

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Glasgow's Godfather

    The Astonishing Inside Story of Walter Norval, the City's First Crime Boss

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    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 gargantuan thirsts and plotted murder and mayhem. Before he had reached his teens, close relatives ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Blood on the Streets

    A-Z of Glasgow Crime

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime. From Madelaine Smith and Oscar Slater, by way of the Bridgeton Billy Boys and the Norman Conks, through to modern villains like Paul Ferris and Tam McGraw, Glasgow's streets have spawned a succession of fascinating tales of true crime. Even in the twenty-first century, as the new Glasgow polishes ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow

    by Paul Harrison ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barlinnie Story

    Riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison

    by Robert Jeffrey ...
    Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell block riots, and been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson Snr and Walter Norval. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Last Godfather

    The Life and Crimes of Arthur Thompson

    by Reg McKay ...
    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 you to the floor, crucifixionstyle. The gangsters of Glasgow thought it couldn't get any worse - ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Gorbals Diehards

    A Wild Sixties Childhood

    by Colin MacFarlane ...
    Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow.During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Great Glasgow Characters

    by John Burrowes ...
    There are few cities in the world to rival Glasgow and the extraordinary happenings that have occurred there, and in this engrossing sequel to Great Glasgow Stories, more of the finest of these are recounted.From the story of the biggest youth movement the world has ever known to the life and crimes of Scotland's most colourful criminal, Johnny Ramensky, whom even the police dubbed 'Gentle Johnny' ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Muscle

    by Carlton Leach ...
    'IN MY GAME, THE CHOICE IS A JAIL OR A GRAVE...' Carlton Leach is a man to be reckoned with. He has earned himself respect throughout the deadly underworld he occupies - make a friend of Carlton and you have an ally for life. Cross him at your peril. For twenty years he has ranked among the toughest of Britain's brawn brigade. He was a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD