Author: James Duff BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk dance music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Auld Acquaintance
Author: Sofia SlaterPublisher: Swift Press
ISBN: 180075048X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Millie Partridge desperately needs a party. So, when her (handsome and charming) ex-colleague Nick invites her to a Hebridean Island for New Year's Eve, she books her ticket North. But things go wrong the moment the ferry drops her off. The stately home is more down at heel than Downton Abbey. Nick hasn't arrived yet. And the other revellers? Politely, they aren't exactly who she would have pictured Nick would be friends with. Worse still, an old acquaintance from Millie's past has been invited, too. Penny Maybury. Millie and Nick's old colleague. Somebody Millie would rather have forgotten about. Somebody, in fact, that Millie has been trying very hard to forget. Waking up on New Year's Eve, Penny is missing. A tragic accident? Or something more sinister? With a storm washing in from the Atlantic, nobody will be able reach the group before they find out. One thing is for sure – they're going to see in the new year with a bang. Tense, moody and claustrophobic, Auld Acquaintance is the unputdownable debut by Sofia Slater.
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
Author: John LloydPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 150954268X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The Scottish nationalists seek to end the United Kingdom after 300 years of a successful union. Their drive for an independent Scotland is now nearer to success than it has ever been. Success would mean a diminished Britain and a perilously insecure Scotland. The nationalists have represented the three centuries of union with England as a malign and damaging association for Scotland. The European Union is held out as an alternative and a safeguard for Scotland's future. But the siren call of secession would lure Scotland into a state of radical instability, disrupting ties of work, commerce and kinship and impoverishing the economy. All this with no guarantee of growth in an EU now struggling with a downturn in most of its states and the increasing disaffection of many of its members. In this incisive and controversial book, journalist John Lloyd cuts through the rhetoric to show that the economic plans of the Scottish National Party are deeply unrealistic; the loss of a subsidy of as much as £10 billion a year from the Treasury would mean large-scale cuts, much deeper than those effected by Westminster; the broadly equal provision of health, social services, education and pensions across the UK would cease, leaving Scotland with the need to recreate many of these systems on its own; and the claim that Scotland would join the most successful of the world's small states - as Denmark, New Zealand and Norway - is no more than an aspiration with little prospect of success. The alternative to independence is clear: a strong devolution settlement and a joint reform of the British union to modernise the UK's age-old structures, reduce the centralisation of power and boost the ability of all Britain's nations and regions to support and unleash their creative and productive potential. Scotland has remained a nation in union with three other nations - England, Northern Ireland and Wales. It will continue as one, more securely in a familiar companionship.
Auld Lang Syne
Author: M. J. GrantPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800640702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Characteristic Songs and Dances of All Nations
Author: James Duff BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk dance music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words
Author: J. B. ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Songs of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Caledonian
Author: Readings in Literature
Author: The Christmas Letter
Author: Elizabeth M. ForbesPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463417454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Inspirational story about friendship "A friend is not a fellow who is taken in by sham; a friend is one who knows our faults and doesnt give a damn." (Author Unknown) The letter came at Christmas with all the yearly bills and seasonal cards; but its message brought back memories of yesterday and years past. Memories of three friends who had supported her through adventures and trials and in supporting her had added to herself as a person. They had been from different cultural and social backgrounds, but somehow had stuck together and through that had become stronger. Now one of them was gone and it felt like a piece of herself had disappeared in the mists of time. It was a facet of her and she didnt want to let it go. The passing of this one would affect all of them because they were all entwined together. Friendship was like a strand of yarn connecting friend to friend as it picked up some loose ends along the way.
Dunlop of that Ilk
Author: Archibald DunlopPublisher: Glasgow : (Printed for subscribers) Kerr and Richardson, Limited
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description