50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland
50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland

Author: Allan Brown

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1472103394

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To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They’re all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.

The Parliamentary Debates
The Parliamentary Debates

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13:

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Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.

Nileism
Nileism

Author: Allan Brown

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 085790017X

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Next year sees the 30th anniversary of The Blue Nile's first work together. Four albums – containing a total of just 33 songs – have followed since. Yet scarcity has served only to intensify love for the band's intensely romantic songs. The Blue Nile are one of modern music's greatest mysteries, as secretive about their plans and status as they are about their painstaking methods. For the first time Allan Brown, a fan from the time of the band's first album in 1983 and friend of the band's composer Paul Buchanan, gets behind the veil to analyse the band's appeal through personal memoir, critical study, access to unreleased recordings and encounters with those who have been central to the strange romantic, melancholy course of The Blue Nile.