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26%OFFAllan Brown - 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland - 9781472119629 - V9781472119629
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50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland

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Description for 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland Paperback. The Complete History of Scottish Disappointment Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They're all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472119629
SKU
V9781472119629
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About Allan Brown
For more than fifteen years, Allan Brown, 44, was chief writer on the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times, and its restaurant critic. A former Journalist of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards, he is the author of Inside The Wicker Man (Sidgwick and Jackson, 2000/Polygon 2010), and Nileism: The Strange Course of The Blue Nile (Polygon 2010). He ... Read more

Reviews for 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland
A brilliant cast of villains... I was disappointed not to be on the list myself
A. A. Gill

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