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The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomsons uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer...
Implements Of The Model Maker
A COMING STORM. A KILLER UNLEASHED. A body is found in a park in the middle of Glasgow. Arms and legs bound by strong, thin wire, small cuts made in the neck and the groin, arteries severed. The murder was surgical, the methods used fastidious and precise. Four days later, another body, another woman, a different park, the murder committed with the same surgical precision. The city, slowly trying to emerge from the throes of a long, cold, deadly winter, is thrown into panic, and officers are called from all outlying stations to the centre. DS Hutton is given speculative leads to follow, people who might have known both victims. And so it is that he comes to interview Dr Crispin Thebes. Retired art dealer, a man who sits at his workshop window by the Clyde, making model ships from scratch. Exact replicas, made with immaculate care.Surgical. Fastidious. Precise... "An underrated writer with an eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice." SUNDAY EXPRESS
Lost in Juarez
From the creator of the cult Barney Thomson crime series, comes a darker and more sinister novel. The government is watching. 4 million names on the DNA database and counting; CCTV cameras on every street corner; telephone records available to any agency which requests them; restrictions on movements around Westminster; ID cards and spy satellites. All in the name of freedom. When his latest book is shelved due to government interference, Lake Weston -- international best-selling, Bob Dylan-addicted children's author -- decides that it is time to stand up for personal rights. He writes and anonymously publishes a scathing Animal Farm-esque diatribe against a government which seeks to restric...
Cynical Theories
Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origi...
Wren Jane Beacon Goes to War
Joining the Women's Royal Naval Service at the start of World War 2, young Jane Beacon stands brave and tall against the enemy, the sea, and the entrenched chauvinism of the Royal Navy. Set against a sweeping panorama of the war and the Royal Navy, the story tells of her struggle to succeed as the pioneer Naval boat crew Wren. Coming of age under extreme conditions, she finds herself as a warm woman, as a leader and as an outstanding seaman. From early days to the beaches of Dunkirk her beauty captivates hearts, her abilities confound a deeply doubtful Admiralty, and her fiery independence of spirit always puts her at an angle to authority. World War 2 was a defining period on the road to emancipation of women. The desperate need for every usable pair of hands for the war effort meant that the old barriers to women's participation in the outside world of work and life beyond the home were broken down, never to be fully re-instated. The young men of the time, as well as being ordered to do the fighting and dying, found themselves in the vanguard of a social revolution where their womenfolk stood alongside them and were an essential part of ultimate victory.
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Letters to Amelia
Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together. When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined with the mysterious pilot and Grace begins to write her own letters to Amelia. While navigating her third trimester, amidst new conspiracy theories about Amelia's disappearance, the search for her remains, and the i...
The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson
In the follow-up to 'The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson', Barney has become a barber on the run. Suddenly notorious throughout Scotland as the worse serial killer since the Black Death, he has escaped Glasgow by hiding out in a monastery in the frozen far north-west. However, as the snow descends, and the police slowly close in on his whereabouts, a new, vicious and altogether more psychotic murderer is wreaking havoc amongst the monks.
Norman Lindsay's Cats
A reprint of an entertaining collection of Norman Lindsay's cat drawings, first published in 1975. An introduction by poet and author Douglas Stewart is included, along with an excerpt from a letter the artist wrote in 1958 describing the cats at his Springwood home.
The Art of Dying
DI WESTPHALL. No ordinary detective. No ordinary investigations. A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of James Oswald and John Connolly. 'Douglas Lindsay is an underrated writer with an eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice . . . enjoyably bizarre. I loved it' Sunday Express When businessman Thomas Peterson is killed outside a football ground in the Highlands, there are several witnesses. Yet the hunt for the killer is proving as futile as the search for a motive. Possible connections to Russian money and an eerie retirement home are soon thrown into the mix. To further complicate things, DI Westphall's MI6 past is coming back to haunt him. Guilt stalks his d...
