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Hard as Nails
Hard as Nails - Graham Roberts with Colin Duncan
Graham Roberts is a true football legend. Utterly uncompromising both
on and off the pitch for Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Rangers,
Roberts had a talent which was the envy of many. Now he tells the full
story of his incredible career and also of the high profile court cases
which he took on and won. Graham was never a man to pull his punches, and his no-holds-barred story is a sensational must-read.
Price: 17.99
 
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Trust Me I'm (Still) A Doctor
Trust Me I'm (Still) A Doctor - Phil Hammond
Dr Phil has been a doctor and whistleblower for twenty-one years, and still hasn’t been struck off. As Private Eye’s medical correspondent and presenter of BBC’s Trust Me, I'm a Doctor, he’s exposed too many scandals and upset too many surgeons. Now aged 46, with varifocals, a swelling prostate and a black bit on his toe that could be a melanoma, he’s paranoid about becoming a patient. What will the bastards do to me?
Price: 9.99
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McGraw
McGraw - Reg McKay
McGraw was a ruthlessly efficient gangster who built a crime empire
based on fear and cunning, violence and drugs. They called him The
Licensee – but not because of the pub he owned. Street players knew
what it meant: Licensed to Commit Crime.
Price: 9.99
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Manuel
Manuel - Allan Nicol
MANUEL – Scotland’s First Serial Killer is the definitive biography of
a killer and seeks to answer the questions that continue to fascinate
us. How many people did he kill? Why did he think it right to murder
the Smart family yet return to feed their cat? What gave him the
confidence and self-belief which ultimately led to his final,
unsuccessful gamble with his life when he sacked his counsel in order
to defend himself on capital murder charges? And in the phrase of the
times – was he really mad or bad?
Price: 9.99
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The Enforcer
The Enforcer - Graeme Pearson with Kevin O'Hare
Graeme Pearson is one of the UK’s most outspoken and respected senior police officers. This is the remarkable, revealing and compelling story of one man’s determination to succeed and his life fighting crime.
Price: 9.99
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Harry Benson's Glasgow
Harry Benson's Glasgow - Harry Benson
The Beatles may have taken him to America but Harry Benson was a
Glasgow boy first of all and, while he went on to capture some of the
most iconic images of the past five decades across the world, it’s to
Glasgow he now returns to tell his story in this spectacular book of
photographs.
Price: 14.99
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Hearts' Greatest Ever Season 1957-58
In the proud history of Heart of Midlothian football club, one season stands out as their finest ever. Now, fifty years on from that memorable 1957/58 campaign which brought the League Championship to Gorgie, read the full inside story of how they did it and what it meant to the fans. It was without question the golden age of the club, when players like Alfie Conn Sr, Willie Bauld, Jimmy Wardhaugh, Dave Mackay and Alex Young left Rangers and Celtic trailing in their wake, scored a record number of goals in a season and won the League Championship by a huge margin.
9.99
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The Cheeky Wee Monkey Joke Book
Written just for young Scots by Allan Morrison, the author of numerous best-selling humour books, The Cheeky Wee Monkey Joke Book
is sure to keep the wee darlings occupied for hours on end. Encouraging
children to read is fundamental to learning, and what better way than
with the enjoyment and laughter of the 1000 plus jokes in this
laugh-a-minute book?
4.99
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Red Alert
Margaret Thomson Davis’ new novel tells the story of the Price family and is set in a Glasgow Fire Station and in the world famous Glasgow School of Art.
16.99
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Tartan Titters!
With our buoyant demeanour and outgoing nature, isn’t Scottish humour just grand! In Tartan Titters!, Allan Morrison brings together the best jokes in the land for
the very first time, and proves beyond doubt that Scotland is one of
the friendliest and funniest nations on Earth.
5.99
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The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
Maureen Reynolds’ moving family saga which started with The Sunday Girls and continued in Towards a Dark Horizon now concludes in The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow.
9.99
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Geordies vs Mackems and Mackems vs Geordies
The rivalry between the cities of Newcastle and Sunderland is one of the fiercest and longest standing in Britain. The people of these two great cities have traditionally regarded each
other with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They
are both absolutely right. And this book is the proof.
5.99
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Tallulah and the Teenstars
Tallulah Gosh is really Teresa Gordon: an ordinary girl living in an ordinary street. In fact, she feels almost invisible. Except, of course, when she’s in her bedroom. There she becomes lead singer with the biggest and best band in the world.
But things are about to change – Tallulah is about to step out of her imagination and her bedroom and into the real world...
4.99
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Rabbie's Rhymes
To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland’s
National Bard, Itchy Coo is proud to publish this lift-the-flap board
book in the format of the hugely successful Katie series. There will be
many publications in 2009 to mark Burns’s 250th birthday, but Rabbie’s Rhymes is unique in bringing the best-loved lines of the poet to the very youngest readers.
6.99
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Ah Cannae Tell a Lie!
Harry’s latest collection of stories, jokes,
anecdotes and tales will tempt your laughter lines into making an
appearance and have you flashing your gnashers at your friends and
family this Christmas.
7.99
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Hot Shot Hamish
Hot Shot Hamish is one of Britain’s all-time most popular football comic heroes. For twenty years, the adventures of Hamish Balfour – the gentle giant with the hottest shot in the game – appeared in world famous comic strips in Scorcher, Tiger and Roy of the Rovers. It was the golden age of British comics and this brand new annual relives his greatest moments.
9.99
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The Granite Mile
Union Street is rightly acknowledged as one of the finest thoroughfares
in Britain and has seen significant change and development through the
ages. The Granite Mile is the fascinating story of how it all happened and of the
triumphs and disasters along the way.
16.99
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Winnie the Pooh in Scots
First published in 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the classics of children’s literature. Pooh Bear, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl and all the other creatures of the Forest need no introduction. The Pooh books have been translated into many languages all over the world, and now Winnie-the-Pooh gets his first outing in Scots. Following on the huge success of Itchy Coo’s Scots translations of Roald Dahl’s books, James Robertson’s version of Winnie-the-Pooh, complete with the original E. H. Shepard illustrations, is a warm and charming rendition of this beloved tale, which will delight both bairns and adults alike.
6.99
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Oranje and Blue
The controversial autobiography of Dutch football legend Arthur Numan, winner of three League titles,
four Scottish Cups and three League Cups during his time with Rangers,
who still lives in Scotland and remains a well-loved figure with the fans.
7.99
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Medicine Balls
The world is full of TV doctors, but only Dr Phil has appeared on Have I Got News For You seven times and Countdown nineteen times, a true mark of greatness (whatever Lord Winston says). He is also Private Eye’s medical correspondent and possibly the only comic to have appeared at a Public Inquiry.
6.99
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- MEDICINE BALLS
The hilarious new book by Britains’s favourite and funniest GP, Dr Phil Hammond.
- CELTIC'S LOST LEGEND
George Connelly, Celtic's 'genius in size eight-and-a-half football boots', reveals why he walked away from the game and team he loved.
- THE SUNDAY GIRLS
Maureen Reynold's runaway bestselling novel about the changing fortunes of the Neill family during the 1930s' Depression in Dundee.
- VILLAINS
When it comes to villains, it takes one to know one. Paul Ferris, who spent twenty-five years as one of Britain's most-feared gangsters, recounts his experiences of the world of violence, fear and uneasy alliances.
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