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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Magic is afoot When the countrys most wanted man inexplicably hands himself into the police, decades after absconding from the state mental institute, a young, but damaged lawyer is called back from his recuperation to interview him. As Thomas Leven is drawn into the complex, preternatural mind of Westerwick born serial killer Angus John MacMillan, what appeared a perfunctory task quickly proves to be anything but. Delving deeper into the malign elements of MacMillans story, Thomas Leven starts to unravel, not only questioning his own faith but his sanity as he comes to the chilling realisation that true evil is all around. Set in Glasgows West End, and on the fictitious island of the title, Westerwick is a claustrophobic tale of the macabre, the mischievous and the malevolent, serving as both an urban gothic satire and a record of modern devilry. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Tony Moscardini has exchanged life in a rain-lashed Scottish city packed with incident for the sun-baked predictability of a small medieval hilltop town in rural Italy. He has given up onerous full-time employment in daily journalism and found fulfilment in photography and guerrilla film-making. More importantly, he has found what feels a lot like true love. And yet, if he's being honest with himself, life in Castel di Colonia has also begun to feel a little bit dull. So what will he find on his return to Glasgow for a weekend? Old foes? Long-forgotten disappointments? Fresh excitements? Overwhelming temptation? Will the happier new Tony yield to his pessimistic former self? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. Seán Haldane's previous collections of poems have been in chronological order. But there are two chronologies: the order in which poems are written, and the order of the events they describe. For example there are six poems in The Memory Tree (2015) which concern events before The Coast and Inland (1968). Haldane has written poems set in Italy while living in Canada, poems set in Canada while living in England. His longest collection so far, Always Two (2010), contains about 280 poems set in four European countries, the USA, and six Canadian provinces. Since this is a selection, not a collection, he has felt free to organise the poems in a loose chronological order of writing, and to put poems which belong' together -- whether in place, time, or person -- in separate sections. The last section includes recent poems which have been set in song cycles by the Canadian composers James Moffet (Poems of Absence) and David Jaeger (The Echo Cycle).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first collection from this award-winning poet who, as Seamus Heaney remarked, 'provides an answer to Frost's wish for poems about subjects common in experience but rare in books'. Although many of his poems are about ordinary things, they are not ordinary poems. Robert Nye described Cameron's writing as possessing 'a quality of verbal alchemy by which it transmutes the base matter of common experience into something like gold'. The Bright Tethers was listed among the Sunday Herald's Books of the Year for 2016. Part of the Run Press Pocket Poems series which published substantial collections of poems, and books about poetry, by poets whose work is already known through previous publications. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The first collection from this award-winning poet who, as Seamus Heaney remarked, 'provides an answer to Frost's wish for poems about subjects common in experience but rare in books'. Although many of his poems are about ordinary things, they are not ordinary poems. Robert Nye described Cameron's writing as possessing 'a quality of verbal alchemy by which it transmutes the base matter of common experience into something like gold'. The Bright Tethers was listed among the Sunday Herald's Books of the Year for 2016.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Tony Moscardini has exchanged life in a rain-lashed Scottish city packed with incident for the sun-baked predictability of a small medieval hilltop town in rural Italy. He has given up onerous full-time employment in daily journalism and found fulfilment in photography and guerrilla film-making. More importantly, he has found what feels a lot like true love.And yet, if he's being honest with himself, life in Castel di Colonia has also begun to feel a little bit dull.So what will he find on his return to Glasgow for a weekend? Old foes? Long-forgotten disappointments? Fresh excitements? Overwhelming temptation? Will the happier new Tony yield to his pessimistic former self.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Katy's story is first and foremost, a musical, family memoir. Both parents come with their own lives immersed in the Scottish music scene of the 1980s - Katy enmeshed in everything that was Edinburgh-based C86 indie pop, while her bandmate and future husband, Douglas MacIntyre, embraced the Scottish post-punk era.At the turn of the century, just as the the couple's musical projects are in the midst of a creative overload, children start to appear at an alarming rate. Six years and five children later, SandFest was born - raising thousands of pounds over the next decade for Down's Syndrome charities.A family. Functioning. JUST - music is always there to save the day. At the centre of this family saga is the indomitable spirit of middle child, Matilda, whose Down Syndrome is, in equal parts, challenging and an amazing gift within the family dynamic!In part, with the raw and unflinching honesty Katy tells of her encounters with the medical profession and educational authorities, which can be described as alternating between difficult and wonderful.At heart, this is the story of a family's love of music and how it has provided purpose, forged relationships and created harmony in every aspect of their lives . with Matilda in the middle.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Sean Haldane's previous collections of poems have been in chronological order. But there are two chronologies: the order in which poems are written, and the order of the events they describe. For example there are six poems in The Memory Tree (2015) which concern events before The Coast and Inland (1968). Haldane has written poems set in Italy while living in Canada, poems set in Canada while living in England. His longest collection so far, Always Two (2010), contains about 280 poems set in four European countries, the USA, and six Canadian provinces. Since this is a selection, not a collection, he has felt free to organise the poems in a loose chronological order of writing, and to put poems which 'belong' together - whether in place, time, or person - in separate sections. The last section includes recent poems which have been set in song cycles by the Canadian composers James Moffet (Poems of Absence) and David Jaeger (The Echo Cycle). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. On a spring day in 1988, Sandra Galbraith runs her long, curious fingers over a bookshelf tightly packed with the titles of her favourite writer, Muriel Spark. She's on a quest to find the perfect birthday gift for her niece, Violet, and plucks Brodie, a pristine, new copy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, from a neat cluster of identikit books. Brodie adores Violet and, over the next two years, hidden in plain sight, learns family secrets of betrayal and a double life. When Violet leaves for university, her brother kidnaps Brodie to give to his disinterested love interest. On the thirty-year journey that follows, Brodie passes through hands and lives and is witness to death, sex, and a wicked stepmother.Throughout it all, Brodie's longing to return to Violet never fades.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Water has always been a constant theme in Gordon Meade's poetry, from his earliest memories of the West Sands at St Andrews, through the Northumberland coastline, via County Cork and the canals of Venice, to the beaches and harbours of the East Neuk of Fife. Another prevalent theme in his work is the experience of a variety of non-human animals, whether encountered in the wild or in captivity, either free or abused.A more recent theme has been the poet's own experience of Stage Three and Stage Four Cancer; its diagnosis, its treatment, and life with a terminal illness. All of the above areas are represented in Beyond the Ninth Wave which closes with over a dozen new poems published here, in book form, for the first time.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Paul Gallagher's work is situated at the crossroads of Symbolism and Expressionism - but not because he has read Symbolist and Expressionist poets (which he has). He writes as he does because his mind works in the way it does. From the very first poem here, 'Forever Blowing Bubbles', about his then young son, there is a vibrant connection with other people, and there is a soaring lyricism which Gallagher never lost.Gallagher has quietly gone his own way for decades, waiting patiently for the real thing to arrive while honing his craft to be ready for each new arrival. He is that rare thing, a poet both philosophical and lyrical. At times, Gallagher sorts through 'the drab tinder of our lives'; at other times, the tinder catches fire, and we are given the pure joy of poems like 'Fiesta Girl' that commemorate moments and places in which 'eternity is always at play'.- David Cameron, Introduction.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When the countrys most wanted man inexplicably hands himself into the police, decades after absconding from the state mental institute, a young, but damaged lawyer is called back from his recuperation to interview him. Thomas Leven is drawn into the complex, preternatural mind of Westerwick born serial killer Angus John MacMillan. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Magic is afoot.When the country's most wanted man inexplicably hands himself into the police, decades after absconding from the state mental institute, a young, but damaged lawyer is called back from his recuperation to interview him. As Thomas Leven is drawn into the complex, preternatural mind of Westerwick born serial killer Angus John MacMillan, what appeared a perfunctory task quickly proves to be anything but.Delving deeper into the malign elements of MacMillan's story, Thomas Leven starts to unravel, not only questioning his own faith but his sanity as he comes to the chilling realisation that true evil is all around. Set in Glasgow's West End, and on the fictitious island of the title, Westerwick is a claustrophobic tale of the macabre, the mischievous and the malevolent, serving as both an urban gothic satire and a record of modern devilry.…

Paperback. Condition: New. It's 1965 and provocative author Henry Miller is taken incognito to an infamous title fight. In the turbulent aftermath of the bout, Miller is forced to battle his way through the ensuing melee in order to make a vital connection with the keeper of a tightly guarded secret. 'Is it safe?' Twenty years later, a young Maine waitress receives an unusual bequest. From the estate of an elderly patron, May Morgenstern takes ownership of a bound collection of letters, hitherto unseen correspondence between her late friend and the aforementioned writer in which he not only recounts the story of how he came to be accused of the slaying of the man who fathered her but how his fate came to be linked with that of future heavyweight champion, Sonny Liston. George Paterson's epistolary tale of murder and chicanery is a study of chaos in instalments. 'The Girl, The Crow, The Writer And The Fighter' is an incendiary, exciting, 'what if?' page turner which spans continents and lifetimes.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The 2020 collection Korean Letters gathers together the poems written in the four years since The Bright Tethers. The words of its title poems were culled from fragments of letters written by Cameron's late father, George, while on National Service in Korea. The book includes 'In a Darker Vein', a cycle of poems set to music by the Toronto-based composer, David Jaeger, and also 'In the Epileptic Colony', a long poem recording the intensity of Cameron's former experiences as a careworker in a residential 'hospital school'. Both of these books confirm the poet and reviewer D.A. Prince's judgement of Cameron's achievement: 'Thoughtful, tentative, musical, human in scale, these are poems which deserve to last.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. When a troubled woman discovers her birth father was a serial killer, she's forced to confront a terrible question. What if the darkness in her own soul is a direct inheritance from him?Despite having made a promise never to do so, Joanne Marshall sets out to trace her birth parents when her adoptive mother dies. She's always felt unable to connect with other people, even her family, and her lack of history is a black hole that only the truth can fill. Her search unearths increasingly shattering information, however, and when she discovers her birth father was imprisoned for murder - and that he's still alive - she decides she has to contact him to lay her fears about her own nature to rest.But she finds, instead, a strange connection to him. And, as their relationship deepens, she doesn't realise that she's making herself vulnerable to a potentially still very dangerous man. Will she finds the strength to stop another tragedy taking place.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Katy's story is first and foremost, a musical, family memoir. Both parents come with their own lives immersed in the Scottish music scene of the 1980s - Katy enmeshed in everything that was Edinburgh-based C86 indie pop, while her bandmate and future husband, Douglas MacIntyre, embraced the Scottish post-punk era.At the turn of the century, just as the the couple's musical projects are in the midst of a creative overload, children start to appear at an alarming rate. Six years and five children later, SandFest was born - raising thousands of pounds over the next decade for Down's Syndrome charities.A family. Functioning. JUST - music is always there to save the day. At the centre of this family saga is the indomitable spirit of middle child, Matilda, whose Down Syndrome is, in equal parts, challenging and an amazing gift within the family dynamic!In part, with the raw and unflinching honesty Katy tells of her encounters with the medical profession and educational authorities, which can be described as alternating between difficult and wonderful.At heart, this is the story of a family's love of music and how it has provided purpose, forged relationships and created harmony in every aspect of their lives . with Matilda in the middle. Katy Lironi's story is first and foremost, a musical, family memoir. Both parents come with their own lives immersed in the Scottish music scene of the 1980s - Katy enmeshed in everything that was Edinburgh-based C86 indie pop, while her bandmate and future husband, Douglas MacIntyre, embraced the Scottish post-punk era. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Katy's story is first and foremost, a musical, family memoir. Both parents come with their own lives immersed in the Scottish music scene of the 1980s - Katy enmeshed in everything that was Edinburgh-based C86 indie pop, while her bandmate and future husband, Douglas MacIntyre, embraced the Scottish post-punk era.At the turn of the century, just as the the couple's musical projects are in the midst of a creative overload, children start to appear at an alarming rate. Six years and five children later, SandFest was born - raising thousands of pounds over the next decade for Down's Syndrome charities.A family. Functioning. JUST - music is always there to save the day. At the centre of this family saga is the indomitable spirit of middle child, Matilda, whose Down Syndrome is, in equal parts, challenging and an amazing gift within the family dynamic!In part, with the raw and unflinching honesty Katy tells of her encounters with the medical profession and educational authorities, which can be described as alternating between difficult and wonderful.At heart, this is the story of a family's love of music and how it has provided purpose, forged relationships and created harmony in every aspect of their lives . with Matilda in the middle.…

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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