Luath press ltd nov 2021 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The twelve stories in Letting Go take us on a journey through landscape, language and turbulent times, from the mid-19th century to the present day, and into the future. Stevenson's array of characters from many walks of life and nationalities - including a traveller, a wood carver, chicken farm workers, a nurse, an architect and a magician - meet and part, some becoming reacquainted.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I guess we've always preferred hiding away than sharing our problems. Us versus the world.' When Sam is woken in the middle of the night by the sound of his mother crying, he is reluctant to get up and discover the reason for her distress. When he finally discovers what has happened, even his worst fears cannot compare to the truth, and he realises that both their lives have now changed irrevocably. Sam and Jude struggle to cope with their shock and grief and are powerless to stop their family home descending from a place of refuge into one of dread and danger. As their world begins to resemble a horror movie, events from the past surface once more bringing with them painful memories of betrayal and public shaming. Can Sam and Jude recover from the trauma of what has happened or have their lives been devastated forever Do they share their secret with the outside world, or do they retreat into a life of seclusion and fear And is either one of them brave enough to make the ultimate sacrifice, for the sake of their family and potentially the rest of the worldâEUR¿.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest.Alan Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The Beatles to form a band in the 1960s. Firstly, he enlisted his brother and then his cousin and via throwing a dart at a map they eventually became the Bay City Rollers. Success was slow in coming but when it did it was beyond Alan's (and almost everyone else's) wildest dreams.A string of million selling records led to Rollermania - a mass-hysterical fan reaction not seen since Beatlemania. Like a wildfire it spread across the world. The Rollers' juggernaut was out-of-control. Alan Longmuir recounts his surreal journey from the Dalry backstreets to the Hollywood hills and back to being a plumber. Along the way he punctures some of the myths and untruths that have swirled around the group. Most of all, though, Alan captures the great adventure that a bunch of young boys from Edinburgh embarked on that for a few years threatened to turn the whole world tartan. Tragically, while finishing his memoirs Alan Longmuir was taken ill while on a holiday in Mexico marking his 70th birthday and died back in Scotland a short while later. It was his great desire that I Ran With The Gang should be released.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I will not travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year. - Ellie Harrison, January 2016 This simple proposition - to attempt to live a 'low-carbon lifestyle of the future' - put forward by an English artist living in post-industrial Glasgow cut to the heart of the unequal world we have created. A world in which some live transient and disconnected existences within a global 'knowledge economy' racking up huge carbon footprints as they chase work around the world, whilst others, trapped in a cycle of poverty caused by deindustrialisation and the lack of local opportunities, cannot even afford the bus fare into town. We're all equally miserable. Isn't it time we rethought the way we live our lives In this, her first book, Ellie Harrison traces her own life's trajectory to examine the relationship between literal and social mobility; between class and carbon footprint. From the personal to the political, she uses experiences and knowledge gained in Glasgow in 2016 and beyond, together with the ideas of Patrick Geddes - who coined the phrase 'Think Global, Act Local' in 1915, economist EF Schumacher who made the case for localism in Small is Beautiful in 1973, and the Fearless Cities movement of today, to put forward her own vision for 'the sustainable city of the future', in which we can all live happy, healthy and creative lives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dreich: (especially of weather) dreary; bleak. Complaining about the weather is a national pastime for Scots - it's no surprise that one of our favourite words is 'dreich'!This is another in McCredie's series of photography books that celebrate of all that is dreich. Fifty dreich images of Edinburgh, accompanied by fifty equally dreich captions. To the author's mind the images in this book are uplifting and joyful. There is nothing miserable about dreich. A sunny day has no more right to exist than a dreich one.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'S e seo a' chiad chruinneachadh de na sgeulachdan goirid aig Maoilios Caimbeul, a tha a' sineadh gu iomadh aite, bho Pharis gu Ierusalem, bho Nis gu Henley-on-Thames. Tha feadhainn dhiubh eibhinn agus feadhainn eile nas doimhne agus tha iad a' dol air ais agus air adhart ann an tim. Coinnichidh sinn ri teaghlach a chaidh a losgadh a-mach as an dachaigh aca ann am Bad an Loisgein anns an 19mh linn agus ri Cindy agus Dez a shiubhail gu Mars agus air ais. Coinnichidh sinn ri Tim, am feoil-sheachnair a Glaschu agus ris an Urramach Bhaltair MacAnndrais agus am meirleach a thug dubhlan dha air an trean. Tha an saoghal os-nadarra a' suathadh ri ceithir de na sgeulachdan. Cruinneachadh tlachdmhor a bhios na adhbhar gaire agus na adhbhar smaoineachaidh don leughadair. These riveting stories stretch from Paris to Jerusalem, from outright hilarity to deeper, darker tones. The tales span from the 18th century Clearances to far into the future, when we will be living on Mars! Poetic writing combined with strong dialogue create funny and thought-provoking moral tales intertwined with themes of Celtic lore, religion and the supernatural in Gaelic.…