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Some People are Crazy

Some People are Crazy


ISBN: 9781846970580
Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Neil Munro
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99 £5.99
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Synopsis:

A well-researched biography of one of Britain’s best musicians renowned for his rock antics.


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For the Islands I Sing

For the Islands I Sing


ISBN: 9781846970832
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

George Mackay Brown wrote this beautiful and touching book in the years before his death in 1996. He did not want it published while he lived. An astonishing posthumous autobiography.


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Nine Against the Unknown

Nine Against the Unknown


ISBN: 9780748662708
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers; passionately written, the biographies are fascinating and revealing, the journeys dramatic and breathtaking.

            
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Ultima Thule

Ultima Thule


ISBN: 9781904598367
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: June 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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The stories collected here make up Rhona Rauszer’s biography, an oral narrative composed and recorded by her over a period of twelve years (1992–2004).

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The Armstrong Nose

The Armstrong Nose


ISBN: 9780748661916
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Hamish Henderson
Publication Date: January 1996
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

A champion of the folk scene and oral tradition, Hamish Henderson looms large in any history of Scottish culture.


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The Beatles in Scotland

The Beatles in Scotland


ISBN: 9781846971129
Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ken McNab
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:
Lifelong Beatles fan Ken McNab reveals for the first time, in intimate detail, the pivotal part Scotland played in the genesis of the group and the extraordinary connections that were fostered north of the border before, during and after their meteoric rise to unprecedented fame.
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The Sensational Alex Harvey

The Sensational Alex Harvey


ISBN: 9781846970887
Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Neil Munro
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
This is the inside story of the sensational Alex Harvey. The book features interviews with Harvey’s widow, ex-band members and close friends and 12 pages of photos.

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Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell

Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell


ISBN: 9781846971150
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Alison Whitelock
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquilisers. This book is a irreverent, bittersweet account of a brutal Scottish childhood.
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