Smokeheads

Author : Doug Johnstone
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571270441
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smokeheads written by Doug Johnstone and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong? Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts - with a wallet full of cash, a stash of coke and a serious thirst. Over a weekend soaked in the finest cask strength spirit, they meet young divorcee Molly, who Adam has a soft spot for, her little sister Ash who has all sorts of problems and Molly's ex-husband Joe, a control freak who also happens to be the local police. As events spiral out of control, they are all thrown into a nightmare that gets worse at every turn. A wild trip to the Scottish Highlands, Doug Johnstone's debut on the Faber crime list is a classic violent thriller, doused with black humour.

Author : Len Wanner
Publisher : Blasted Heath Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908688211
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crime Interviews: Volume Two written by Len Wanner and published by Blasted Heath Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're interested in learning about how to write, how to be a writer, or about the writing life in general, what greater resource and pleasure than frank, in-depth interviews with best-selling authors? Len Wanner returns with the second in hisCrime Interviews series, this time featuring:• William McIlvanney• Tony Black• Doug Johnstone• Helen FitzGerald• Quintin Jardine• Gordon Ferris• Craig Russell• Douglas Lindsay• Ray Banks• Denise Mina• So much more than a collection of writing tips,The Crime Interviews Volume Two is brimming with pithy, witty and sometimes just plain weird revelations. It provides a unique and unforgettable insight into how authors think... and how they write."Fascinating stuff, whether you are a fan of any particular author, or of the genre as a whole, or even of the wider world of Scottish and British Literature in contemporary times. In fact, I may just have to go back and read both volumes again..."-from the foreword by Ian Rankin See also The Crime Interviews Volume One for nine more interviews. What they said about Volume One..."This is fascinating reading and a real treat. A rare insight into the minds of a diverse group of crime writers, writing in one genre, living in proximity, but all with utterly different, individual voices."-Peter James, author ofDead Like You "Len Wanner is the perfect interrogator, subtle, accommodating and incisive, and these interviews elicit many layers of deep, dark and vital intelligence."-John Banville author of The Sea

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Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-07 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doug Johnstone
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571270468
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hit and Run written by Doug Johnstone and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime lord and, as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a nightmare of guilt, retribution and violence. From the author of the acclaimed Smokeheads, Hit & Run is another pitch-black psychological thriller.

Author : Ian Buxton
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472258258
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die (Revised and Updated) written by Ian Buxton and published by Headline. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth edition, fully revised and updated. 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die is a whisky guide with a difference. It is not an awards list. It is not a list of the 101 'best' whiskies in the world in the opinion of a self-appointed whisky guru. It is simply a guide to the 101 whiskies that enthusiasts must seek out and try in order to complete their whisky education. Avoiding the deliberately obscure, the ridiculously limited and the absurdly expensive, whisky expert Ian Buxton recommends an eclectic selection of old favourites, stellar newcomers and mystifyingly unknown drams that simply have to be drunk. The book decodes the marketing hype and gets straight to the point; whether from Canada, India, America, Sweden, Ireland, Japan or the hills, glens and islands of Scotland, here are the 101 whiskies that you really want. Try them before you die - Slainte!

Author : Paula Brandon
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553583832
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wanderers written by Paula Brandon and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falaste Rione is imprisoned, sentenced to death. The magical balance of the Source is slipping and the fabric of reality itself has begun to tear. Jianna Belandor can think only of freeing the man she loves while undead creatures terrorize the land, slaves of the Overmind--a relentless consciousness determined to bring everything that lives under its sway. All that stands in the way is a motley group of arcanists and a misanthropic hermit whose next move may turn the tide and save the world.

Author : Clay Risen
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1681441063
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Single Malt Whisky written by Clay Risen and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to his bestselling American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation's Favorite Spirit, Clay Risen's Single Malt is an introduction to the long history, fascinating science, and incredible diversity of malted whisky, as well as a practical drinker's guide to buying and enjoying hundreds of the greatest examples of the distiller's tradition. With maps of essential whisky regions of Scotland, profiles of each of the makers, and photographs of the bottles and tasting notes for each of the most widely available expressions--compiled from tasting sessions conducted by a panel of leading whisky experts--readers will discover a rich vein of knowledge about one of the world's most storied beverages. Selected from more than one hundred active distilleries in Scotland, the 330 expressions featured in this book provide a curated yet comprehensive primer of the single-malt whiskies any growing aficionado should be familiar with. Additional features include a directory of distilleries, Risen's top whisky picks in various categories, and a full index of the expressions featured in the book.

Author : Doug Johnstone
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571296629
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gone Again written by Doug Johnstone and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?' As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry. With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple's shared past, not least that it isn't the first time Lauren has disappeared. And as Mark struggles to care for his son and shield him from the truth of what's going on, the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is, until a shocking discovery...

Author : Doug Johnstone
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571321593
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jump written by Doug Johnstone and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death. But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into - a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own. From #1 bestselling author of Gone Again, The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller, and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.

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Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-07 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: