Neil Wilson Publishing: 117 books
Hopeless But Not Serious
The Autobiography of the Urban Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In the early 1950s Sir Winston Churchill met the Irish politician Sean Lemass, who was later to become Taoiseach. The great statesman remarked upon the economic circumstances of Britain at the time. 'The situation in Great Britain,' quoth Churchill in his most grandiloquent tones, 'is serious but...
by Jack McLean
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Jack McLean - aka The Urban Voltaire - was one of the most original columnists in the Scottish press. In the 1980s and 1990s he became an institution with a loyal readership as well as a healthy number of opponents and critics. This is a compilation ebook edition of his columns from the Glasgow Herald...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
What is often forgotten about Robert Burns is that he was a prolific writer of letters and had the ability to correspond with people from every walk of life. Whereas his poems and songs were composed in the Scots dialect, his letters were written in perfect English prose. Many of his letters to his...
by Tristan Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"Tristan Wood is a long-standing member of the Club Taurino of London, the foremost gathering of English-speaking aficionados, Tristan has edited the Club’s prestigious bi-monthly magazine, La Divisa, for the past eight years. In addition to writing on bullfighting, Tristan has published books...
by Kate Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The craft of smoking food was once commonly practised in order to preserve food-stuffs and enhance flavour, but the advent of the cold-store, the fridge and chemical food preservatives saw the decline of the practice. However, as consumer demand for wholesome produce increases, the interest in food...
by Ian R Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
A short and entertaining guide by writer and broadcaster Ian R Mitchell of some previously unpublished stories about Scotch whisky dealing with obscure local history and how family connections took the art and craft to New Zealand. The close association that Robert Burns had with whisky is explained...
Sunset on the Clyde
The Last Summers on the Water
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
The 1950s were the heyday of the Clyde pleasure-steamer, when hordes of ordinary folk went 'doon the watter' to Dunoon, Largs and Millport to the strains of accordian and fiddle. Others went with suitcases to Rothesay for the Fair, while the well-to-do filled brass-bound trunks and headed for the...
Bad Whisky
The Scandal That Created The World's Most Successful Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This is the new edition of a cult classic released at a time when the industry is once more addressing the problem of defining what constitutes Scotch whisky. This is a unique insight into the Victorian scandal which raged at the end of the 19th century surrounding the adulteration of whisky in public...
Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish
Essays From Beyond The Black Stump
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Cameron McNeish is one of Scotland's best-known hillwalkers and broadcasts regularly on national radio and television. He considers himself an "evangelist" for the wild places of the world - mountains, deserts, remote coastlines and forests - anywhere that lies beyond the black stump. Having...
The Hollow Drum
Scotland Since the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
SINCE THE WAR SCOTLAND HAS been profoundly altered. Its native tradition of entrepreneurial capitalism has disappeared. Its heavy industries have rapidly declined. It has become a branch economy soliciting international investment. Its crowded old cities have spread themselves into the country dormitories....
From Sea to Sea
A History of the Scottish Lowland and Highland Canals
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
The peculiar formation of the great Caledonian valley - long, deep and comparatively very narrow, and occupied by a regular chain of inland lakes and extensive arms of the sea - had long suggested the idea of a canal which by connecting the whole might afford the means of a navigable communication...
Encounters in the American Mountain West
A Sinner Amongst the Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Over the past 14 years Boardman-Tasker award-winner Ian R Mitchell has been a frequent visitor to the wilds of Utah and the surrounding US Mountain States. His motive has been not only to learn about the area he calls almost a 'black hole for Americans and foreigners alike' but also to get to know...
by Jack McLean
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Jack McLean's prose was something of a legend in the national press. In the last two decades of the last millennium he created a reputation for giving two fingers to any sector of the establishment which had riled him. He has also dealt with some rather public figures in a similar manner. His first...
Dead Jammy!
The Life and Deaths of Scottish Undertaker Jammy Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
There is an old saying that there are only two certain things in life ... death and taxes. Now while taxes are no laughing matter and death is never a thing of levity, this never made Jammy Stewart a dour or overly respectful undertaker. Jammy, a Highlander by origin, was a streetwise and quick-witted...