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Dribble on Verse
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The Incest Murders
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The Real Gorbals Story
Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
Rollercoaster Colin
Memoir with recollections of growing up in the war to enjoying retirement immersed in nature.
Colin Who?
Colin Who? is the autobiography of actor Colin Spaull who has been a stalwart of British stage and television since the 1950s. If you don't know the name, you'll know the face. Colin has rarely been off our TV screens since starring as a child actor in dramas such as Great Expectations and The Winslow Boy. When not on the small screen, he was either on the big one, playing alongside greats such as David Niven, or live on stage in playhouses around the UK.In Colin Who? he tells the story of the ups and downs, the happiness and heartbreak of the varied life he has led and the people he has met. The list of his acting credits reads like a catalogue of British soaps, dramas and sitcoms.Colin has appeared in both the original and the current Doctor Who series, and is one of only a handful of actors to have done so.With a Foreword by Frazer Hines, this is Colin Spaull's story.
Life in Print
A dark, gritty, and inspiring fiction novel from new author Robert Colin Hill. The story is based around the main character of Tom Jackson and how he deals with the turmoils of life, growing up in the 1920s and 1930s and going off to war. Later in life, he meets Jim Moran who is a local reporter who wants to document Tom’s story. Jim quickly realizes that Tom has had a very interesting life.
Usain Bolt
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Cycle of Violence
Marked by Colin Bateman's signature blend of sinister violence and sidesplitting dialogue, Cycle of Violence is the story of Miller, Belfast's bicycling journalist, and his "cycle of violence", on assignment to Crossmaheart, a post-terrorist ghetto where the preferred response to bone-chilling murder is a hilarious one-liner, and vice versa. The town harbors secrets more sordid than the locals' resumes of political "activism", and Miller, embroiled in a troubled romance, finds himself playing inquisitive reporter in this notoriously fatal place to ask questions.
No Mean Glasgow
In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again. In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.
