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  • Victory & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium
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    Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson

    Victory & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium
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    ‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story i...
    ‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer! It’s a stoatir, so it is!’ Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression ‘big in the 80s’. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in...
  • By My Hands : A Potter’s Apprenticeship by Florian Gadsby. Book cover has a photograph of various ceramic receptacles stacked on top of each other.
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    Florian Gadsby

    By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship
    £30.00
    Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery,...
    Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his skill has grown, so has his social media following, which today numbers in the mi...
  • Walking Back Home by Ricky Ross. Book cover has a black and white photograph of the author standing against a brick wall.
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    Ricky Ross

    Walking Back Home
    £20.00
    'For all these years I've told stories. Sometim...
    'For all these years I've told stories. Sometimes these days I also tell them on the radio. I've met some amazing people and their stories need told too. The first time Deacon Blue ever played Wemb...
  • Bookish : A Love Letter to Reading
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    Lucy Mangan

    Bookish : A Love Letter to Reading
    £12.99
    A love letter to all those who come alive when ...
    A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of ...
  • The Gold : The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist
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    Neil Forsyth

    The Gold : The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist
    £10.99
    The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The...
    The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold. On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heat...
  • Raising Hare : The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
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    Chloe Dalton

    Raising Hare : The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
    £10.99
    Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-f...
    Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Im...
  • Home
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    India Knight

    Home
    £22.00
    In this book inspired by her phenomenally popul...
    In this book inspired by her phenomenally popular Substack newsletter, India Knight explores the essence of what makes a home, debunking intimidating ideas about ‘taste’ and trends, offering practi...
  • The Royal Butler
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    Grant Harrold

    The Royal Butler
    £22.00
    **Pre-order - Published: 28 Aug 2025**  Discove...
    **Pre-order - Published: 28 Aug 2025**  Discover the revelatory royal autobiography of the year, with stories featuring Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and many more. From an early age, Grant ...
  • I Swear : My Life with Tourette’s
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    John Davidson

    I Swear : My Life with Tourette’s
    £18.99
    From the remarkable man whose life inspired the...
    From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fasc...
  • Unschooled
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    Caro Giles

    Unschooled
    £20.00
    **Pre-order - Published: 2 Sep 2025**  It’s not...
    **Pre-order - Published: 2 Sep 2025**  It’s not by choice that Caro Giles is educating her daughters at home. Like so many families with children who don’t fit into mainstream schools, her family h...
  • Undefeatable
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    Julian Evans

    Undefeatable
    £24.99
    'This is the account we've been starved of: an ...
    'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country’s game. ‘Odesa is my discovered heart,’ confesses Julian Evans, ...
  • Not That I'm Bitter
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    Helen Lederer

    Not That I'm Bitter
    £9.99
    What was it like as one of a handful of women a...
    What was it like as one of a handful of women at the heart of the right-on alternative comedy scene in the 1980s? Piece of cake? Bit of a laugh? Well, yes, and no. It had its ups - but also its dow...
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