Black White Publishing: 284 books
by Chris Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The people of Scotland have a reputation for being many things, but what makes us who we are? In Wha's Like Us? Chris Robinson explores the Scottish character and uncovers some amazing facts about the Scots and the words we use to describe ourselves. Are we generous or mean, serious or seriously funny,...
by Jim Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Ever wondered what some of the weirdest productions of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been? Has it crossed your mind that you don't actually know which Scottish city has the honour of being twinned with the Russian town of Piskov (mind you don't drop that , now)? If so, then this is the book for...
by Chris Robinson, Eileen Finlayson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The Scottish weather is rich in variety, full of lights and shades, drama, romance and beauty. We have snow in winter, sunshine in summer, strong winds in spring and autumn and all four seasons can happen in one day. But, at least when it rains, the Scots tongue has myriad words to cheer you up while...
The Real Taggarts
Glasgow's Post-War Crimebusters
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Keeping the streets of Glasgow safe has never been an easy task. From the pre-war razor gangs through to the drug lords of recent times, the city streets have never been free from peril. But without the men who relentlessly fought crime year after year, the citizens of Glasgow would have been in far...
Does Anyone Like Midges?
and 99 other improbable Scottish questions
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Does Anyone Like Midges? contains a wheen of queries about the Scots and Scotland. Including: Did Irish pirates give Scotland its name? What does 'Sassenach' actually mean? How will global warming affect Scotland? Is the heavy-drinking Scot a Roman PR creation? And has anyone ever been killed by Highland...
by Tony Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Gordon Smith is one of football's all-time greats. As a player, he was world-class and in a glittering career, he won almost every honour available, played the game with passion and lived life to the full. From his early days playing in the backstreets of Montrose, Gordon Smith went on to become a...
by Caroline Grace-Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
When was the last time you put yourself first?
Thirty-eight-year-old divorcee Courtney Downey has no idea who she is any more. She has devoted her life to bringing up her beloved 15-year-old daughter Susan, but Courtney just doesn’t get the celebrity-obsessed, Snapchat-filtered teenage world...
Rikki Fulton's The Reverend I.M. Jolly
One Deity at a Time, Sweet Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2003
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to church again, he's back. As HM's Church of Scotland minister, Jolly is in residence at Balmoral. You can tell because the flags at half-mast. But when Jolly's fair midden, Ephesia, wrecks the Braemar Highland Games, the Church sends him off on a secret...
Banged Up!
Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Britain's prisons have dealt with a vast range of inmates over the years - from infamous criminals to celebrities to the wrongfully convicted. Banged Up now tells the story of six of Britain's most notorious jails - Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway - and of the...
Launched Into Eternity
Crime and Punishment, Hitmen and Hangmen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
When the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public spectacle would be witnessed in Scotland. Smith's crime was heinous, his public punishment brutal. And, finally, it was the end of a tragic public theatre...
by Peter Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Billy Nelson is back home in battle-scarred Belfast. But the Troubles have cut this ex-Army Loyalist hard man deep – and now that his city’s allegiances have shifted, nothing is quite the same.
An outbreak of gang violence forces Billy to move on. This time to Edinburgh, where he muscles...
The Last Day I Saw Her
An emotional story of secrets, hope and long lost friendship, with a supernatural twist
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
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When lonely single mum Janey stumbles into an art workshop, she can't believe her eyes when her left hand mysteriously scribbles a picture of two little girls and a strange message from someone called 'Hattie': Janey's childhood best friend. But they lost touch...
Sheep for Beginners
A dip into the world of wool
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
SHEEP FOR BEGINNERS takes you on a journey into the fascinating wooly world of sheep. Discover previously unknown facts about our fleecy friends as John K. V. Eunson explores their TASTE IN MUSIC - 'Ewes Are the Sunshine of My Life' by Stevie Wonder is always a firm favourite across the generations...
There is a Bonny Fitba Team
Fifty Years on the Hibee Highway
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Over the last fifty years, Ted Brack has supported Hibernian FC through good times and bad. Between watching Hibs lose the Scottish Cup Final to Clyde in 1958 and celebrating their CIS Cup triumph nearly fifty years later there have been famous victories over Barcelona and Real Madrid and, of course,...