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  • Scotland’s Radicals
    Ron Culley
    For a relatively small nation, Scotland certainly hasn’t been short of radicals. Over the centuries, the country has produced revolutionary and reforming ideas, ideals and behaviours that have changed the world we live in. From football to philosophy, from scientists to soldiers, Scots have made a huge and disproportionate contribution to world transformation. Inventors and med...
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  • For As Long As But A Hundred Of Us Remain Alive
    Ron Culley
    Before WW2, the Labour Party held ’Home Rule for Scotland’ as one of their fundamental principles. However following the end of the war and the unionism it engendered, notions of Scottish independence slipped down the political agenda until unionism edged it out completely. Formed in 1934 from a union of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party, the Scottish Nation...
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  • Firebrand
    Ron Culley
    In 1985, Willie McRae, the lawyer and ex-Vice Chairman of the Scottish National Party was found on a lonely hillside near Loch Loyne in Scotland. He had survived a car crash but was later discovered to have a bullet in his brain. Was it self-inflicted as the authorities announced with considerable haste or was it state sponsored murder?’Firebrand’ explores all aspects of the sh...
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  • Dalriada
    Ron Culley
    Scottish politics is in stalemate. A growing sense of disquiet with Westminster rule is frustrated as no permission is granted by London for a second referendum on Scottish Independence. One man decides to take action and disables a military convoy taking nuclear warheads south from Scotland in order that they can undergo maintenance. His success prompts more acts of civil diso...
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  • Rebellious Scots to Crush
    Ron Culley
    Substantial amounts of ’dark money’ provided to British Unionists from unknown sources and used for illegal political purposes in order to subvert the right of Scots to choose independence, is awash in Scotland. A Scottish islander from Benbecula finds himself immersed in a series of criminal plots to defeat the Scots’ drive for independence. Facing the might of the British sec...
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  • The Last Colony
    Ron Culley
    Scotland is the largest producer of oil and is the second largest producer of gas in Europe. It has more than an eighty per cent share of UK’s North Sea assets and holds more fresh, high quality water in one of its 250,000 lochs, Loch Ness than is available in all of the lakes in England and Wales. When Scotland is compared with other smaller nations within the European communi...
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  • Odyssey
    Ron Culley
    Following in the hallowed footsteps of Bryson, Fry and Palin, Ron Culley has produced a travel book that is at once fascinating, delightful and very funny. Whether writing about America’s Route 66, the Arctic Circle, European rail journeys, Africa’s Equator countries or points between, Culley entertains hugely.A must read!‘A gem of a book’.Alexander Tarbet ...
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  • Alba
    Ron Culley
     In 1985, as he prepared to release information that could have brought down the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, solicitor and senior Scottish Nationalist politician Willie McRae was found in a remote highland glen. He had been under surveillance by officers of the Special Branch who had followed him from Glasgow. He had been shot in the head. Suicide or state-s...
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  • The Patriot Game
    Ron Culley
    The Irish Republican Army’s Chief of Staff, Charlie Kerins, is executed by de Valera’s Free State government following a tip-off. Sinéad O’Grady, a young and inexperienced Volunteer serving in the IRA during Ireland’s Emergency period throughout World War Two is tasked with finding the informer and with assisting a German diplomat in organising an arms drop in rural Kerry. But ...
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