Télécharger le livre :  Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball
Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes, and they must face the choice of moving to a new estate or dispersing throughout the city. But...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Whose Turn for the Stairs?
This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Staying On Past the Terminus
Glasgow 1961.It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill.The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86).Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'Fluent' if you were brought up in...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  At Her Majesty's Pleasure
In the final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2008-05-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood
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...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2007-10-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Somewhere to Lay My Head
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...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2007-05-03
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