Stuart David, co-founder of the bands Belle & Sebastian and Looper, brings a unique sensibility to his literary work. His novels explore deep human emotions and complex relationships with keen insight and a distinctive style. David's prose is known for its lyrical quality and its ability to evoke strong feelings in the reader.
A nostalgic look at Scottish football and mementoes from 1946 to 1986 when the game was at its (almost) egalitarian and entertaining best. It was a period with a wide spread of trophy winners: eight different teams were crowned champions and Scottish clubs regularly impressed in all three European competitions.
Scotland: Club, Country, Collectables continues its authors' offbeat look at the issues and idiosyncrasies associated with Scottish international football. It's a celebration of the good, the bad and the mementoes treasured by fans irrespective of results - from match programmes and trading cards to beer labels, postage stamps and replica jerseys.
Peacock Johnson's got an idea that's guaranteed to make him rich, and a friend who's willing to invest in the idea - just as soon as the friend's ex-wife remarries and frees him of his alimony obligations. But Peacock's having some difficulty laying the groundwork for his less-than-legal enterprise. Local homicide detective Duncan McFadgen is convinced that Peacock is responsible for the recent murder of a police informer, and is constantly on Peacock's tail, badgering him with questions and trying to break his alibi for the night of the murder. His path to riches seems to be vanishing into the ether and then things begin to seriously unravel...
Fifteen-year-old Jack Dawson, known as "The Jackdaw," concocts a plan to create an app that prevents daydreaming in class, envisioning fame and fortune. However, his seemingly foolproof idea encounters unexpected challenges, leading him to navigate the complexities of his ambitions and parental expectations. Stuart David's debut teen novel blends humor with deeper themes, capturing Jack's journey as he seeks to carve out his own identity and aspirations. Readers will find themselves cheering for Jack throughout his adventures.
An affectionate and fascinating memoir about Belle & Sebastian by the group's co-founder, Stuart David
Features fifteen-year-old Jack 'Jackdaw' Dawson, a young man with a plan. Daydreaming in class one day, Jack is hit over the head with an idea so blinding, so extraordinarily visionary and so downright fantastic he knows it can't fail. It's his ticket out of school - an app that will stop you from getting into trouble for daydreaming in class.
One afternoon, in 1994, I had an idea. So begins Stuart David's magical, evocative memoir about Belle and Sebastian. Determined to make his living writing stories and songs, Stuart had spent several years scraping by on the dole in his small, industrial home town. Then he had the fateful idea to learn bass guitar, and to head for Glasgow in search of like-minded artists. It was a quiet but powerful idea that would completely transform his life. Within one extraordinary year he had helped create one of the most influential, beloved bands of all time. Set against a vivid background of early 90s Glasgow, In the All-Night Cafe describes Stuart's fortuitous meeting with the band's co-founder Stuart Murdoch on a course for unemployed musicians. It tells of their adventures in two early incarnations of Belle and Sebastian and culminates in the recording of the band's celebrated debut album, Tigermilk. A fascinating portrait of the group and its origins, it is also a story that will resonate with anyone who has put together - or thought of putting together - a band. It is a story of a group of friends who wanted to create a different kind of band and a different kind of music. And how - against all expectations - they succeeded. Written with wit, affection and a novelist's observant eye, In the All-Night Cafe brings to life the music and the early days of this most enigmatic and intriguing of bands
David E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through groundbreaking archaeology to explore the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi and how it parallels patterns throughout modern societies in this new edition.
The Crimean War has ended at last, and Phillip Hazard finds himself in China, serving under the fiery Commodore Keppel. The British pull off a rousing victory against a Chinese junk fleet at Fatsham Creek, but later Hazard is dismayed to hear of the Great Mutiny in India. Worried that his two sisters are caught up in the brutal conflict, he joins British relief forces fighting to reach the besieged northern Indian towns of Cawnpore and Lucknow. Arriving in Cawnpore at last, Hazard faces a diabolical vengeance, and in Lucknow he must take on the blazing guns of the angry sepoys.
1857...A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frightened women and hungry children in a crumbling outpost, the British garrison at Cawnpore waits behind frail mud walls, under scorching sun, for the uncertain arrival of relief troops.