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Nation in Want of a Grievance
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A Nation in Want of a Grievance takes its name from a 19th century editorial in the Times newspaper. It consists of a collection of 35 essays written in Scotland around the end of the 20th century and the start of the present 21st century. Some of these are directly concerned with Scotland, some are not. Some are documentary in character, others are fictional. The first essay is a memoir, in a spirit of fictionised reportage, of the last herring-fishery on the west coast of Scotland - a fishery in which the author took part as a trawler deck-hand. A second piece in the collection is a re-jig of Lady Gregory's famous little one-act play, The Rising of the Moon, which has been re-written and located in the post-Jacobite Highlands of 1746. One piece of extended and research-intensive journalism examines in detail the long record of landlord chicanery relating to popular access to the waters of Loch Morar in western Lochaber. Another piece draws extensively on French and Spanish resources to tell the story - so far as it can be told - of Duncan Stewart of Balquidder, private doctor to Le Roi Christophe, the famous monarch of post-revolutionary Haiti. Oysters from Sweetings, meanwhile, is a fictional comment on modern Scotland in the style of John Buchan. The collection ends with two newspaper editorials. One, from a post-war edition of the Scotsman newspaper, is fictional, and relates to the forced merger of the churches of Scotland and England. The other is the Times editorial from the 19th century, in which Scotland is castigated as a nation in want of a grievance.
101 Amazing Jokes
￥19.52
Do you want to read a collection of jokes that are so funny your head is likely to fall off? Jack Goldstein, the master of comedy, has loaded over one hundred of his favourite laugh-tastic grenades into his humour launcher and is ready to unleash hilarity mayhem. All of these are organised into categories so budding comedians will have a joke for every situation you can imagine. What is green and stands in the corner? A naughty frog!
Bangers
￥19.52
A teenage lad's fascination with old cars. An even greater fascination with teenage girls. A sad lack of sufficient funds to pursue either interest with much credibility. A conundrum which has challenged car-obsessed male youth the world over since the fateful day in 1885 when Gottleib Daimler's spindly-wheeled creation puttered out of its shed for the first time. Bangers relates how one impoverished would-be Lothario tackled these issues during the late 60s and early 70s. Successes were rare, disasters were commonplace but the adventures on the journey were entertaining and fulfilling - most of the time. An affectionate look back at a less constrained, less self-concious era, Bangers tells the story of a young man fumbling his way towards adulthood through tales of the many old cars that found their way into his life. Each of these crumbling wrecks moved him a fraction further down the path of enlightenment in his attempts to comprehend basic mechanics and female temperament - not that he ever got much beyond scratching the surface of either concept. In fact, 50 odd years and 70 odd cars later, he remains as bemused by it all as he ever was. However, two constants have remained with him throughout. One is the knowledge that he was always far from being alone in his obsession with old motors as a quick glance at the magazine shelves in any newsagent will confirm. The other is that someone, somewhere really ought to try and explain all this to the opposite sex.
Evolution of Empires
￥19.52
A fantastic and comprehensive look at the historical development of the empires of France, Germany and England, written by American author and historian Mary Platt Parmele.
Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
￥19.52
The Mughal, or Moghul, Empire ruled much of the Indian subcontinent (archaically called 'Hindustan') for 3 centuries, finally falling in the mid-19th century. This is a fantastic and comprehensive account of the last years of the Empire and its fall, one of the most important events in Indian history.
Great Boer War
￥19.52
While most people remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his 'Sherlock Holmes' stories, he actually wanted more to be a journalistic and historical writer. This is one of his works in that vein, documenting the events of the Boer War, which had yet to end at the time of writing.
Pirates of Malabar
￥19.52
A fascinating account of events that took place at the Malabar Coast during the mid-19th Century, including the machinations of the powerful East India Company, the rule of the Moghul, and the activities of pirates such as the fearsome Captain Kidd.
Round the Red Lamp
￥19.52
A fantastic collection of 15 somewhat harrowing short medical stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about childbirth, syphilis, and botched amputations, among others.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians
￥19.52
Thirteen classic fables from Ancient Greece, including the Story of Electra, The Bow of Hercules and The Death of Agamemnon.
Story of Garfield
￥19.52
A fantastic biography of the 20th President of the United States, James Abram Garfield, written by Scottish scholar William G. Rutherford.
Age of Innocence
￥19.52
Edith Wharton was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize: in 1921 with this book. It is a story of class-clash and scandal set in 1870s New York. A fantastic classic read.
Amateur Poacher
￥19.52
A fascinating series of autobiographical writings by English nature writer John Richard Jefferies, which give an intriguing insight into English rural life in the 19th century.
Battle of Life
￥19.52
The fourth of Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Books' series (which began with the all-time classic 'A Christmas Carol').
Beetle
￥19.52
A mysterious oriental man known only as 'the Beetle' terrorises london with his unearthly powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting. Written by British author Richard Bernard Heldmann under the pseudonym of Richard Marsh, this book was published in the same year as 'Dracula', and was initially more successful than Bram Stoker's now more famous work. Like Dracula, and other books of the time such as Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels, this was also of the 'sensation novel' genre, building up the suspense surrounding a mysterious villain by narrating the story from several viewpoints.
War Chief of the Ottawas
￥19.52
A fantastic look at the Pontiac War by Canadian author Thomas Guthrie Marquis.
Wife and Other Stories
￥19.52
Nine short stories from the Russian literary master Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.Includes the stories:The WifeDifficult PeopleThe GrasshopperA Dreary StoryThe Privy CouncillorThe Man in a CaseGooseberriesAbout LoveThe Lottery Ticket
Witch and Other Stories
￥19.52
Fifteen short stories from the Russian literary master Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.Includes the stories:The WitchPeasant WivesThe PostThe New VillaDreamsThe PipeAgafyaAt Christmas TimeGusevThe StudentIn the RavineThe HuntsmanHappinessA MalefactorPeasants
Witches of New York
￥19.52
A fantastic light-hearted look at the world of the psychics, astrologers and fortune-tellers of Victorian New York City, written by 'Q. K. Philander Doesticks', the alter-ego of American humorist Mortimer Q. Thomson.
Three Years in France with the Guns
￥19.52
This book details some 'episodes in the life of a Field Battery' during the First World War.From the introduction by the author:The story is a simple record of the fortunes of my own Battery and Brigade, and is intended as a tribute to the good comradeship which existed, under all conditions, among all ranks.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
￥19.52
The story of Tom Brown as he attends Rugby School, a public school for boys, has enthralled readers for over a century and a half.
Two Gallant Sons of Devon
￥19.52
A fantastic adventure novel set on the high seas, written by British civil engineer and author of nautical fiction William Lancaster, under his pseudonym Harry Collingwood.
