The Real Gorbals Story
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The Real Gorbals Story
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Author : Colin MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-22
The Real Gorbals Story written by Colin MacFarlane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-22 with Science categories.
Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
No Mean Glasgow
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Author : Colin MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-11
No Mean Glasgow written by Colin MacFarlane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again. In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.
The Gorbals Story
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Author : Robert McLeish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Gorbals Story written by Robert McLeish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Glasgow (Scotland) categories.
The author was born in the Gorbals in Glasgow, the son of a shipyard labourer. The play takes an angry look at the housing shortage as it explores the everyday life experiences of a crowded tenement.
Gorbals Diehards
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Author : Colin MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Gorbals Diehards written by Colin MacFarlane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Enid Blyton wrote about the Famous Five - wholesome kids who were always up to some adventure or other - but during the 1960s Glasgow boy Colin MacFarlane had his own gang: the Incredible Gorbals Diehards. These were young boys trying to survive in one of the world's toughest areas, the infamous slums of Glasgow. During the gang's daily adventures, they came across a plethora of undesirable characters, including foul-mouthed drunks, thieves, razor-flicking gang members, con men, fly men and street brawlers. Through it all, MacFarlane and his band of brothers retained their sense of humour while roaming the filthy, stench-ridden Gorbals backstreets. In the third volume of his acclaimed memoirs, bestselling author Colin MacFarlane reveals what it was like to grow up on the streets of the Gorbals during this period. Be prepared to be shocked and entertained at the adventures of the gang that called themselves the Incredible Gorbals Diehards.
Shuggie Bain
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Author : Douglas Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Shuggie Bain written by Douglas Stuart and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards The Million-Copy Bestseller 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' – Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell. 'A heartbreaking novel' – The Times 'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' – Daily Mail
The Incredible Rise Of A Gorbals Gangster
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Author : Colin MACFARLANE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-24
The Incredible Rise Of A Gorbals Gangster written by Colin MACFARLANE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with categories.
Johnny McGrath, 21, was the leader of the notorious Glasgow razor gang The Gorbals Cumbie. He feared no-one, but was feared by many. This book follows his trials and tribulations as he led his gang into open warfare against other Glasgow gangs like the Tongs. Apart from fighting, he was not only recognised to be a bit of a street icon but a sex symbol with the young ladies. We follow his incredible rise from a wild street boy to a top notch gangster. This novel is based on a conglomeration of Gorbals characters, many of whom are no longer with us, but some are. The gang's battle cry was "Cumbie ya bass!" and struck terror into the hearts of many of those who heard it. This is a true life novel with violence, sex, Glaswegian humour, and madness on every page. It is probably the best novel about Glasgow gangs ever written.
Jamesie S People
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Author : John Burrowes
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1987
Jamesie S People written by John Burrowes and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts categories.
Growing Up In The Gorbals
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Author : Ralph Glasser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Growing Up In The Gorbals written by Ralph Glasser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Gorbals (Glasgow, Scotland) categories.
No Mean City
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Author : Alexander McArthur
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1984
No Mean City written by Alexander McArthur and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Gangs categories.
No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic and convincing.
Swing Hammer Swing
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Author : Jeff Torrington
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-11-30
Swing Hammer Swing written by Jeff Torrington and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Fiction categories.
From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.