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  • The Last G.I. Bride Wore Tartan
    Fred Urquhart
    Fred Urquhart’s lively collection of stories deals with life in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and demonstrates his fascination with American culture and its effect on Britain. The title story - a highly amusing satirical novella - presents a young Scotswoman who is desperate to cross the Atlantic as a war bride in order to get to Hollywood, armed with a tartan...
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    21,23 €

  • A Diver in China Seas
    Fred Urquhart
    Highly praised by leading critics on its first publication, this collection of some of Fred Urquhart’s most subtle and skilful stories depicts the lives of a variety of Scottish characters, at home and abroad. He deals with social class and inter-generational conflict, aspirations and disasters, the passing of time and memories of the past. Urquhart displays his profound unders...
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    17,49 €

  • A Goal for Miss Valentino
    Fred Urquhart
    This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart planned. It displays the full range of his work: unsparing stories, tragic and comic, about ordinary people in twentieth century Scotland; historical tales in settings from Bohemia to Dundee; and unconventional ghost stories with such disparate themes as the identity of the Third Murder...
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    20,42 €

  • Seven Ghosts in Search
    Fred Urquhart
    Some of the best of Fred Urquhart’s ghost stories are gathered in this volume. They include humorous and satirical tales, depicting an afterlife in which dispirited spirits, although perhaps unionised themselves, are oppressed by what they see as the banal horrors of modernity. Other stories, such as ’The Saracen’s Stick’ and ’Proud Lady in a Cage’, convey a real sense of evil,...
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    17,44 €

  • The Year of the Short Corn, and Other Stories
    Fred Urquhart
    'The Year of the Short Corn' was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be a civilian family gathered together with scattered serving children for a precious Christmas leave, or a son or daughter returning from one of the services; it can illustrate clothes rationing, and the avid fervour with which civi...
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    18,62 €

  • I Fell for a Sailor
    Fred Urquhart
    Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart’s first collection of short stories brings to life the modern Scotland of the 1930s, using his inimitably vivid dialogue. He shows the struggles of working-class women, whether labouring in a sweatshop, facing death in a tuberculosis hospital or seeking escape on a bike of her own. His male characters also have problems, caused by a...
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    18,50 €

  • The Clouds Are Big with Mercy
    Fred Urquhart
    By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart’s second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men are often reluctant to sign up for the Forces: the world seems on the move. Tenement dwellers react to the mysteries of Blackout, sirens, air-raids, air-raid shelters. Urquhart’s st...
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    17,63 €

  • Jezebel’s Dust
    Fred Urquhart
    Jezebel’s Dust is the story of two young teenage girls infected by the love of uniforms in Edinburgh and London early in the war. They come from the slums and have no very high education or expectations, but the war is opening up new possibilities. Lily McGillivray is the chief man-eater and increasingly a ’good time girl’. She exploits and encourages her more passive and awkw...
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    18,56 €

  • The Ferret Was Abraham’s Daughter
    Fred Urquhart
    The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance halls, all call out to the girls and young women that life need not be dull. This book, set in one of the poorer areas, is full of the comedy and extraordinary dialogue for which Fred Urquhart is well known, and the Hipkiss family and its neighbours are foregrounded. But central is ...
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    18,47 €