Willie Morton investigates a claim that a by-election unexpectedly won by Labour in Scotland in 2009 was rigged. It leads him into an underworld of fringe politics and a coastal cave attached to disused mine workings in East Wemyss....
A practical guide to how we can positively adapt to a changing world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life 'The London Business School professors Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton have been predicting how society must adapt for years. Now they have a post-pandemic road map for us all' Sunday Times Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted anxiety about where we're heading. Are our jobs under threat? If we live to 100, will we ever really stop working? And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others? One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures. In our era of unprecedented change, we haven't yet discovered new ways of living. Drawing from the fields of economics and psychology, Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton offer a simple framework based on three fundamental principles (Narrate, Explore and Relate) to give you the tools to navigate the challenges ahead. Both a personal road-map and a primer for governments, corporations and colleges, The New Long Life is the essential guide to a longer, smarter, happier life
Fire has shaped the Earth's landscape and vegetation for the past 400 million
years. This book explores the history of wildfire, and how humans have sought
to use and manage it. The need to understand fire has never been greater, as
human settlements encroach on flammable landscapes and wildfires increase with
climate change.
"Riveting... rewarding and satisfying... tension-filled from start to finish" DUNDEE COURIER"Real page turner... keeps up the tension throughout" LESLEY RIDDOCH"Loosely based on the Willie McRae killing, a fast-moving novel... keeps you involved right to the end... a very good read" SCOTS INDEPENDENTCross-border relations between Westminster and Holyrood are tense over nuclear policy as journalist Willie Morton investigates the death of anti-nuclear activist Angus McBain and begins to suspect he was killed for what he knew.Was there UK Government collusion in the murder of McBain and conspiracy over illegal radioactive convoys heading to Dounreay? And can Morton keep clear of the sinister, deadly forces in headlong pursuit from Loch Ness to Arisaig and Oban, and across the treacherous Sound of Kerrera in the dark...? Trapped in a remote distillery at Bridge of Orchy, as bullets dent the copper stills, surely Morton's time is up...?Andrew Scott's pacy political thrillers explore the uncertain and ambiguous terrain between a declining Britain and an emerging Scotland, in fast-moving novels that combine an insider's insight with all-too-believable scenarios set in beautiful locations in contemporary Scotland, England and Europe.