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50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland

Contributors:

By (Author) Allan Brown
Foreword by A. A. Gill

ISBN:

9781472119629

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Constable

Publication Date:

27th August 2015

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

European history

Dewey:

941.100207

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

201g

Description

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 consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.

Reviews

A brilliant cast of villains... I was disappointed not to be on the list myself

Author Bio

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 lives in Glasgow.

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