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What's for Ye, Won't Go by Ye
The story follows the life of two generations of the MacGregor family through the eyes of Linda, Douglas MacGregor's daughter. Beginning in the Possilpark area of Glasgow in 1950 when Linda is two years old, the novel traces the family's struggles though the first part of the twentieth century. From the hardships of the 1930's and the romantic love story and marriage of her parents, Douglas and Margie, through the terrifying war years of the 1940's. World War II seriously affected many soldiers and their families. Men sometimes sacrificed up to six years of their lives defending the UK from Nazi oppression. Others were so badly wounded that they spent the rest of their lives in hospitals. So...
Treachery and Triumph - An Anthology of World War II Stories
WAR? DEATH AND DESTRUCTION? VIOLENCE, HATRED, INEXPRESSIBLE GRIEF? PEOPLES PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER, TO THE DEATH? WHY ON EARTH SHOULD I WANT TO READ ABOUT IT? THERE’S ENOUGH IN THE MEDIA EVERY DAY, SURELY? YES: BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. The stories in this Anthology aim to give a vivid insight, through a fascinating mixture of history, reminiscence and fiction, into life during WWII: for those at the front, those left behind, the young at school, the old in the twilight of their years, parents, lovers, spouses, families, colleagues; Britons, Germans, Irish, Kenyans, French, eastern Europeans and Americans (plus the odd ‘undesirable alien’!). These pages see householders struggling to ma...
Mammograms Save Lives
Here, the author tells how she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She explains how it was a mammogram that brought the disease to light and is now campaigning to raise awareness into the importance of mammograms.
Chasin' That Carrot
It is 1969, James and Linda Alexander start married life with everything against them; she is pregnant, money is tight and they rent a room and kitchen in Glasgow’s east end. Things are difficult, work is scant in Glasgow and James and Linda have a toddler son with another one on the way, they decide to move down south to ‘Chase that Carrot’. Work is plentiful and wages are good in the London area, but there are no houses for rent. James roughs it in a rented room and Linda stays on in Glasgow. Weeks before the birth, James finds an apartment in Weybridge, Linda bids a tearful farewell to her parents and joins her husband. Homesick on New Year’s Eve, they set off for Glasgow. Disaste...
