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https://player.stv.tv/summary/secrets-of-the-bay-city-rollers I grew up with the Bay City Rollers. My older brother, Sev, was meant to look a bit like Les McKeon, the lead singer. The latter died in 2021, aged 65. My brother about thirty years before that. My sister Phyllis had Bay City Roller pictures on her wall. All the girls did. Wee Emily, my brother’s girlfriend, had the cut-off tartan trouser and scarves and even a kiss-me-quick hat with...

worried Jacques still hasn't come home, I'm a bit worried it's more than three weeks now that he's in hospital. Coping on my own there is other family too.

Georgio Pellegrini has an epiphany. He’s like to open a decent Italian restaurant. One that would allow him to blend in with those that doesn’t worry about money, respectability, or the need to pay the cops to keep them off their back. He’ll just need to pull one last heist. Pellegrini has to factor in being double-crossed. Formaggio, and the insider who provided details of the armoured truck, and how much loot it is carrying, can easily be...

Local author, Alex Kane, (a pseudonym) tends to write what you know. Janey slots into the genre of Scottish Noir also known as Tartan Noir. Writing is a verb, not a noun. This is Kane’s ninth book. She does her talking on the page. Lets the gods of Amazon decide. Most writers tend to be women. Eight out of ten readers are women and they prefer heroines rather than heroes. A virtuous circle. The protagonists in Kane’s novels tend to be women you...

Tiffany McDaniel dedicated her book to the Chillicothe Six. On the dedication page, she names the victims. Charlotte Treggo , 27. Disappeared May 3 rd , 2014. Still missing. Tameka Lynch , 30. Disappeared May 2014. Body discovered in river. Wanda Lemons , 37. Disappeared November 4 th , 2014. Still missing. Shasta Himelrick , 20. Disappeared December 2014. Body discovered in river. Timberly Clayton , 38. Disappeared May 2015. Found shot to death...

The variety of work on ABC Tales never ceases to amaze and delight me, and sometimes that variety can be seen in the work of individual writers. A brilliant example of that is marandina, who has given us not only his engrossing Song to the Siren SF story, but also the beautiful and tender tale that is our Story of the Week, 'A Cat, A Leaf and Fresh Fish'. In this you will find love, loneliness and a mutual need felt and met: A Cat, A Leaf and...

Alan Warner’s debut novel Morven Caller was adapted and made into a film. He’s one of Scotland’s most successful writers. Nothing Left to Fear From Hell is a step away from the usual write-what-you-know school. A short novella. Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight through the Highlands. Most readers know about his escape to France. So we know the ending. We think we know the plot. Why bother? Warner addresses these issues in Afterward . This could and...

The Barra Boy is a whodunnit split into three parts. Beginning (Part One: Ewan Fraser). Middle, (Part Two: The Barra Boy of the title). End (Part Three: Laura Robertson). What happened in Barra is split into two time frames. Ewan Fraser, a successful London solicitor, thinks he saw Billy Matheson on the other side of the window on the crowded Tube station in 2022. But Ewan is in his fifties. Yet Billy seemed to be the same eleven or twelve-year-...