The Incredible Adam Spark

Author : Alan Bissett
Publisher : Headline
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472203984

Get Book

The Incredible Adam Spark by Alan Bissett Pdf

A dazzling performance (think Forrest Gump, think Curious Incident, think Anne Donovan's Buddha Da) from one of Scotland's brightest new talents. Adam Spark. Eighteen going on eight-and-a-half. Fast-food worker. Queen fan. Last in the queue for luck. On waking from an accident in which he saves a child, he has the distinct impression that all is far from right. What are these curious lights that seem to surround people? Why are animals and machines trying to speak to him? And can he really control time? Is it just his imagination, or has Adam Spark been chosen to become Scotland's first, and only, superhero? This, however, is the least of his problems. The local gang is luring him into deeper and darker peril. His sister and lone carer, Jude, is giving all her love to another woman. And if Jude abandons Adam - or Adam drives her away - all the superpowers in the world won't be able to save him.

Author : Alan Bissett
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1846971780

Get Book

Boyracers by Alan Bissett Pdf

Since its first publication 10 years ago, Boyracers has established itself as a contemporary Scottish cult classic. It is a totally fresh, savvy, and supremely honest take on being young, naive and hopeful, and the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad, pop-culture world. It is fast, pacy and funny—an exhilarating joyride through the formative years of four Falkirk teenagers. The author has contributed an afterword to this special anniversary edition.

Author : Dave Connis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510707320

Get Book

The Temptation of Adam by Dave Connis Pdf

Adam Hawthorne is fine. Yeah, his mother left, his older sister went with her, and his dad would rather read Nicholas Sparks novels than talk to him. And yeah, he spends his nights watching self-curated porn video playlists. But Adam is fine. When a family friend discovers Adam’s porn addiction, he’s forced to join an addiction support group: the self-proclaimed Knights of Vice. He goes because he has to, but the honesty of the Knights starts to slip past his defenses. Combine that with his sister’s out-of-the-blue return and the attention of a girl he meets in an AA meeting, and all the work Adam has put into being fine begins to unravel. Now Adam has to face the causes and effects of his addiction, before he loses his new friends, his prodigal sister, and his almost semi-sort-of girlfriend.

Author : ALAN. BISSETT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Monologues, English
ISBN : 1910895121

Get Book

MOIRA MONOLOGUES by ALAN. BISSETT Pdf

Author : Alan Bissett
Publisher : Hachette Scotland
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755388530

Get Book

Pack Men by Alan Bissett Pdf

'That's why aw this-' Cage lifts his lager can, sweeps it round 180 degrees. '-means so much tay a man.' The crowd stamps and claps, a hundred and fifty thousand voices blending into one. In 2008 Glasgow Rangers FC reached a major European final. It was held in Manchester, a short hop from Scotland into England. Cue a colossal invasion: the largest movement of Scots over the border in history and the first time in hundreds of years that an English city was taken over. Chaos reigned. Pack Men is the fictional story of three pals and one child trapped inside this powderkeg. In a city rocking with beer, brotherhood and sectarianism, the boys struggle to hold onto their friendship, as they turn on each other and the police turn on them. And somehow one of them has to disclose a secret which he knows the others won't want to hear... With this novel, one of Scotland's leading young writers has created a scuffed comedy about male un-bonding and Britain unravelling.

Author : Evans, Cliff,Tippins, Emma
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335225255

Get Book

Foundations Of Nursing: An Integrated Approach by Evans, Cliff,Tippins, Emma Pdf

Combines anatomy and physiology with principles of nursing practice to present an approach to patient care and the nurse's role. This title introduces the role of the nurse and the scope of practice (accountability, EBP, EBL etc). It then looks at each body system in turn.

Author : Roderick Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137067432

Get Book

Literature of Scotland by Roderick Watson Pdf

Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.

Author : Di McLanachan
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444159875

Get Book

Successful Customer Care in a Week: Teach Yourself by Di McLanachan Pdf

The ability to look after your customers is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Di McLanachan, a leading expert on customer care as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to keep your customers happy and coming back. The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!

Author : Christine Harvey,Grant Stewart,Di McLanachan
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473684027

Get Book

The Ultimate Sales Book by Christine Harvey,Grant Stewart,Di McLanachan Pdf

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From sales strategy and account management to negotiation and customer service,THE ULTIMATE SALES BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises. This is your complete course in successful selling. ABOUT THE SERIES ULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing.

Author : Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630288

Get Book

Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by Berthold Schoene Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,

Author : Sophie Cooke
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908885548

Get Book

The Year of Open Doors by Sophie Cooke Pdf

In one of the most ambitious collections of recent years, Somerset Maugham Prizewinner Rodge Glass edits an exciting assembly of Scotland s most promising new writers. Writing on contemporary Scotland, The Year of Open Doors features stories from Saltire First Book award shortlisted Sophie Cooke, James Black Tait Memorial Prize nominee Suhayl Saadi, acclaimed novelist and poet Kevin MacNeil and renowned performer and novelist Alan Bissett. Throw in renowned international authors like Kapka Kassabova and Jason Donald and renowned figures of Scottish literature like Duncan McClean and you have a collection that aims to show a changing and dynamic new Scotland. Cargo Publishing has also opened the door to brand new, unpublished authors; quite simply if you want to read the best new talent in Scottish fiction, you ve come to the right place.

Author : Allan Brown
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857900173

Get Book

Nileism by Allan Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Rodge Glass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408833353

Get Book

Alasdair Gray by Rodge Glass Pdf

Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Family Rights Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1871515661

Get Book

Big Bruv Little Sis: This publication sets out the findings from the first UK research study into the experiences of siblings who are raising their younger brothers and sisters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Bissett
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910741047

Get Book

Alight Here by Alan Bissett Pdf

When we think of Scottish literature we think first of the urban grit which came from Edinburgh and Glasgow or the rural poetry of the Highlands and Islands. No-one thinks of Falkirk. Who ever came out of Falkirk? The place may be on the map due to engineering innovations such as the Falkirk Wheel and the iconic Kelpies sculpture but the town’s contribution to our nation’s literature has so far been underlooked. Edited and introduced by author and playwright, Alan Bissett - originally from Hallglen in Falkirk - this collection features established writers from the area such as Aidan Moffat, the lyrical genius behind the band Arab Strap; Gordon Legge, who was key to the ‘Rebel Inc’ movement of the 1990s; Janet Paisley, one of Scotland’s leading Scots language voices; and Brian McCabe, arguably one of Scotland’s most accomplished short-story writers. Alongside them are a host of new and young talents, as well as unseen poetry unearthed from Falkirk Archives. Together, these voices create a compelling picture of Falkirk.