The Steamie

Literature & Fiction

Roper, Tony

Contemporary

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THE GUY'S VIEW Think about it, chaps, as far as females go, there are dogs, horses and budgies that are easier to understand. In fact, there are giant turtles, jellyfish and even bacteria that are easier to communicate with than females. And, what's more, if any of the aforementioned were to respond, they would make far more sense than any woman. THE GAL'S VIEW They leave the toilet seat up no matter how often you ask them not to. They come and offer to help with the dishes/ironing/hoovering only when they're certain you've just about finished. They invite their mates round to watch the football on the telly and assume that, if there's not enough beer and food in the fridge, you'll be only too happy to pop out and get more. And as for the dirty socks and pants they leave lying on the bedroom/bathroom floor in anticipation that the washing fairy will magically deal with them - well, let's not even go there!

Women Vs Men and Men Vs Women

Humor & Entertainment

Ian Black

Lesley Riddoch

Humor

In this exploration of the Golden Age of piracy, Jim Hewitson takes us into unexpected waters to meet such characters as John Paul Jones, founder of the US navy and rogue pirate to the British: Sweyn Asleifsson, a peaceful farmer half the year and wild sea raider the rest, and Greenock's Captain Kidd, the notorious but deceptive swashbuckling adventurer.

Skull And Saltire: Stories of Scottish Piracy

Hewitson, Jim

Black, Ian.

Dramas & Plays

Who are the people that you would instantly associate with Glasgow? There are the obvious names like Billy Connolly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Ally McCoist, Lulu, Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Carol Smillie - in fact the list is as long as your arm. Times Past offers short biographies of all of the city's most influential sons and daughters. As well as the weel-kent faces, there are people like shipbuilder Robert Napier, architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and inventor James Watt whose names might not be so immediately associated with the city but whose influence on its development can never be underestimated. Times Past also covers the history of the city. The 'Dear Green Place' burgeoned in the nineteenth century and with its wealth came the confidence to build some of the most stunning city-centre buildings anywhere in the world. This was financed by some of Britain's shrewdest merchants and businessmen and, of course, all this trade meant that shipbuilding became one of the city's most important activities. Here the industry's phenomenal rise and its eventual decline are charted in both pictures and text. The book then looks at how Glasgow's past has shaped the city we know today - a vibrant cultural melting pot that is rightly recognised as one of Europe's trendiest cities. Of course, a vital part of the culture of Glasgow is football and the successes of both Rangers and Celtic are celebrated here. No book on the sporting history of Glasgow could ignore the Ibrox Disaster and the tragedy of Stairway 13 in 1971 is given sensitive coverage. Glasgow has also produced some of the country's best boxers and Times Past gives men like Benny Lynch and Jim Watt their rightful place in the city's sporting archives.

Times Past: The Story Of Glasgow

History

Leadbetter, Russell

Europe

Ever taken a 'beamer' because someone has called you a 'numpty'? Or maybe you can't work out why 'bluenoses' and 'left-fitters' can never see eye to eye? This book reveals the true meanings of some of the more obscure Scots words and phrases, putting a smile on even the most 'petted-lipped coupon'.

Shut Yer Pus: The Wee Book of Scottish Slang

Simpson, Scott

The Rev. I M Jolly and Friends : The Very Best of Last Call

Rikki Fulton

"I was driven to write these books because the spirit of the Gorbals would not leave me and insisted that I give expression to its continuing power and its lessons for our society." -Ralph Glasser 
Ralph Glasser's Gorbals Trilogy is an extraordinary account of a remarkable life. In Growing Up in the Gorbals, Glasser describes his childhood and adolescence in the impoverished slums of the Glasgow tenements in the 1920s and the hardships and heartaches that went with it. At 14, he left school to become a barber's soap boy but he soon started the night classes that would eventually lead him to a scholarship to Oxford. In Gorbals Boy at Oxford he describes his new life, the incredible characters he met and the arrogance of Oxford academic life, and in Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs, Ralph Glasser's brilliant trilogy concludes in the wayward world of postwar London.

Growing Up in the Gorbals: The Ralph Glasser Omnibus

Biographies & Memoirs

GLASSER, Ralph

Memoirs

Scots-The Language of the People accompanies the four-part BBC television series that tells the story of the Scots language. Carl MacDougall has compiled an anthology that features the work of 50 writers, covering more than 800 years. Extracts from the great epic poems on Bruce and Wallace, the works of Gavin Douglas, Robert Henryson, and Sir David Lyndsay sit with anonymous ballad singers and unknown writers. Each piece carries a separate introduction and shows, through living, practical examples, how the language developed and survived and how its present is healthier than ever.

Scots: The Language of the People

World Literature

No one could rule bloody Glasgow, they said. Arthur Thompson proved them all wrong. From a normal working class family, Thompson started out as a bouncer, minder and bagman. Hard, bright, he learned young. Cross him-you were scarred. Cheat him-he nailed you to the floor. The gangsters of Glasgow thought it couldn't get worse. It did. For forty years Thompson ruled Glasgow's mean streets, always devising new terror. 
This fully revised edition of The Last Godfather visits places no law-abiding person has been. Gun-running, murders, drug dealing and torture are still there. But there's much more. How he improved on crucifixion. Created Europe's Tartan Mafia. Invented concrete boots. Then there's his impact on others such as death by sniper, kidnap from London and torture in Glasgow-and why he decided to do nothing about the Ice Cream Wars. 
Thompson died of natural causes but his influence didn't stop at his grave, which was left unmarked for fear of gravediggers. This new edition explains and describes the aftermath in detail for the first time. Revenge from beyond the grave-the kidnapper killed. Hexed-his enemies since murdered yet the cases remain unsolved. Twice torched -who was so desperate to get rid of his old HQ? The good daughter's curse. The runt's tale and the end of the line. There couldn't be another-Arthur Thompson was the Last Godfather.

The Last Godfather: The Life And Crimes of Arthur Thompson

McKay, Reg

True Crime

From the immediate post-war period to the new century, Scotland has generated more rock stars per head than anywhere else in the world. 'Big Noise' looks at the sound of Scotland and discovers its background through the stories and memories of those who made it.

Big Noise: The Sound of Scotland

Kielty, Martin

Arts & Literature

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