Black White Publishing: 284 books
by Jack Webster
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Jack Webster is one of the most popular journalists writing in Scotland today. Voted Newspaper Columnist of the Year in 1996, his weekly columns in The Herald have won him a huge and loyal audience throughout Scotland. The Herald Years reflects the extraordinarily wide range of Jack's interests, experiences...
Deadlier Than The Male
Scotland's Most Wicked Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Most killers are men. But never turn your back on a woman. Murder, madness and maliciousness abound in this hangman's dozen of she-devils. Culled from over five hundred years of bloody history by crime writer and journalist Douglas Skelton, these pages uncover the mad, the bad and the dangerous to...
Life on the Line
How to lose a million and so much more
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Kevin Twaddle was a footballer who was always prepared to take a risk on the park but it was off it where he really gambled. The former Hearts, Motherwell and St Johnstone winger speaks openly for the first time about his secret betting addiction that saw him blow more than a million pounds and wrecked...
Ancestors in the Arctic
A Photographic History of Dundee Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Dundee, City of Discovery, is known around the world for its innovation, its jute and music, and its vibrant culture. But the critical role of the city's whaling fleet and the wealth it generated for Dundee for more than a century is less well known. Ancestors in the Arctic is a remarkable collection...
Murder Capital
Life and Death on the Streets of Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Murder Capital of Europe: that's Glasgow. A city more lethal than London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Dublin or strife-torn Belfast. But what's the truth behind the headlines, the real story on the streets of Glasgow? And who has earned the city its shocking and brutal reputation? Murder Capital leads...
Peterhead
Inside Scotland's Toughest Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling Barlinnie Story and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge'...
Scotland's Cruel Sea
Heroism and Disaster off the Scottish Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
High cliffs jutting out into the Atlantic and the North Sea, many hundreds of rocky skerries, deep sea lochs, dangerous unseen reefs, powerful tides and gales that batter the land fiercely from all points of the compass . . . Scotland has a coastline of immense beauty and danger, and its cruel sea...
Lighting Candles
A Paramilitary's War with Death, Drugs and Demons
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at...
Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters
Crime in the 19th Century Aberdeen and the North East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Ravaged by riots, vice and violence, nineteenth-century Aberdeen was very different from the city we know now. Danger lurked around many corners. Truculent fishermen rioted on the coast. 'Resurrection men' snatched dead bodies for anatomists' experiments. Children became career criminals. Railway...
Bloody Scotland
Crime in 19th Century Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius. But it was also the home of brutal murder, terrifying riots, cruelty to children, bank robbery and acid attacks. Women as well as men were capable of horrendous acts, and crime could...
Manuel
Portrait of a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The true story behind the notorious serial killer Peter Manuel, and Detective William Muncie's quest to bring him to justice, recently dramatised in the major ITV drama In Plain Sight.
In a two-year killing spree, Peter Manuel terrorised a city. As the people of Glasgow held their breath and anxiously...
Lies, Damned Lies and Anglers
The One That Got Away and Other Fishy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
When fishing, there's always an element of chance. And the occasional opportunity to exaggerate just a bit, especially about the one that got away. In Lies, Damned Lies & Anglers, Bruce Sandison searches for the truth about angling, with all it's pleasures and frustrations, and reveals some of...
UFO Scotland
The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
For over fifty years, from the Highlands to the Lowlands, and from the Western Isles to Orkney, witnesses have been reporting close encounters with UFOs and alien entities. Many cases have become notorious - the Livingston incident, the Lossiemouth alien, the A70 abduction, the extraordinary events...
McX
Scottish X Files
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1997
What is going on in the Falkirk Triangle? Why are UFOs being reported in the skies all over Scotland? Are aliens abducting motorists on quiet country roads, while unknown creatures stalk the countryside and hide in the murky waters of Highland lochs? There is no question that Scotland is currently...