Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer

Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer
Author: Ross Macfarlane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-02
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781910895498

The exploits of Kane and his manservant are both comic and thrilling in this Dickensian murder mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh Scotland, 1850. The penalty for murder is death by hanging. Why then employ a young defense lawyer with no trial experience who is surely destined to fail? And why does his client refuse to tell him what happened on the night the crime took place? Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer follows the young Advocate, Edward Kane, and his manservant, Mr. Horse from the great houses of Edinburgh to the taverns and alleyways of the Old Town in search of answers - and defense. The novel evokes the sights and sounds of Victorian Scotland, introducing a rich cast of characters.

Studying Scots Law

Studying Scots Law
Author: Hector MacQueen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2022-08-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1526523388

Studying Scots Law provides a highly readable account of the educational and training requirements for entry into the Scottish legal profession and provides essential information on law courses throughout Scotland as well as giving useful advice on study skills. Studying Scots Law provides law students with an invaluable source of reference throughout their studies. The new edition provides invaluable information on how the approach to teaching and studying has changed during Covid restrictions and the facilities universities have put in place to support students during this time. As well as a general background it also provides guidance on: - The nature and forms of legal education and what to expect from a study of the law - Advice on applying to university, studying, essay writing and exams - Treatment of electronic sources for study and research - Information on education funding

Words to Shape My Name

Words to Shape My Name
Author: Laura McKenna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021
Genre: Slaves
ISBN: 9781848407954

In 1857, Harriet Small is given her father's True Narrative of his life - his escape from slavery in America and his journey into the heart of revolutionary Ireland. The story of Tony Small and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Words to Shape My Name is about hope, failure, resilience, and narrative - an adventure of great intelligence and awareness.

The Purified

The Purified
Author: C. F. PETERSON
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910895566

Black Snow Falling

Black Snow Falling
Author: L. J. MacWhirter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Young adult fiction
ISBN: 9781910895313

This is a story about hope overcoming evil, written with satisfying moral complexity. Ruth's devastation breaks apart time. She sees that her hopes and dreams are a visceral halo of rainbow colours spinning to white... and that evil dream thieves are severing these halos from sleeping victims, many of whom she knows. Those disturbing dreams of black snow lead Ruth to a perilous discovery: one dream thief is connected to her grandfather and the candle-maker's bou Jude from long ago.

The Real Gorbals Story

The Real Gorbals Story
Author: Colin MacFarlane
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1780571682

Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.

When She Woke

When She Woke
Author: Hillary Jordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616201843

Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed—their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes—and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.

History of Kane County, Ill

History of Kane County, Ill
Author: Rodolphus Waite Joslyn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1908
Genre: Kane County (Ill.)
ISBN:

The first volume highlights communities and history of numerous villages, cities and townships of Kane County. The second volume contains biographies of many Kane County residents.

Freedom Found

Freedom Found
Author: Sara Trevelyan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017
Genre: Prisoners
ISBN: 9781910895078

Sara Trevelyan was independent, clever, and privileged. She was a qualified doctor who campaigned for penal reform. She fell in love with and in 1980 married Jimmy Boyle, a convicted murderer who had become a famous writer and sculptor.