Bloody January
When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. This was not a random act of violence. McCoy must enlist the help of his criminal underworld connections to find out the truth. How long will it be before McCoy himself ends up on the wrong side of the law?
Blodig Januari
»1970-talets Glasgow uthugget i kött och tecknat i blod.« | Peter May »Mörkt och blodigt, men ruggigt bra berättat.« | Lotta Olsson, Dagens Nyheter»En riktigt, riktigt bra debut.« | Gunilla Wedding, Skånska DagbladetNär en tonårspojke skjuter ihjäl en ung kvinna mitt på en trafikerad gata i Glasgow och sedan tar livet av sig är kommissarie Harry McCoy säker på en sak: Det var ingen slumpmässig våldshandling.Tillsammans med sin nya partner använder sig McCoy av sitt nätverk i Glasgows undre värld för att driva utredningen framåt, men snart stöter han på ett hemligt sällskap som leds av stadens rikaste invånare: familjen Dunlop. McCoys chef vill inte att han utreder dem. Dunlop-familjen verkar vara omöjliga att komma åt. Men McCoy har andra idéer...Blodig januari är en tät, vindlande kriminalroman som levandegör den mörka undersidan av sjuttiotalets Glasgow och etablerar Alan Parks som ett av de mest spännande nya namnen inom skotsk noir. ALAN PARKS föddes i Skottand och gick på Glasgows universitet, där han tog sin master i moralfilosofi. Större delen av sitt liv har han arbetet som fotograf och videoregissör inom musikbranschen och gjort omslag och videor åt band som New Order, All Saints och The Streets. Blodig januari är hans debutroman.»Lysande debut. Intensiv, våldsam och så nära du kan komma 1970-talets Glasgow utan en tidsmaskin.« | John Niven »Fantastisk Glasgow-skildring. Jag älskade Alan Parks karaktärer och vill läsa mycket mer om kommissarie Harry McCoy!« | Alex Gray »En klassisk polisroman skriven med finess och ekonomi. Tänk McIlvanney eller Get Carter.« | Ian Rankin»Blodigt och briljant. En påminnelse om vilken mörk plats Glasgow en gång var.« | Louise Welsh
May God Forgive
WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2023 Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charg...
To Die In June
One missing child. Two murders. A midsummer nightmare. A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from the cop shop across town, discovers the fami...
The April Dead
McCoy must contend with a bombing spree across his home city in this fourth dark and gritty Harry McCoy thriller
February's Son
A TOP TEN SCOTTISH BESTSELLER ON DARK NIGHTS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO LIGHT A FEW FIRES . . . Bodies are piling up with messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control. New drugs have arrived in Glasgow, and they've brought a dif...
May God Forgive
WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2023 Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A...
Blodig Januari
»En riktigt, riktigt bra debut.« | Gunilla Wedding, Skånska DagbladetNär en tonårspojke skjuter ihjäl en ung kvinna mitt på en trafikerad gata i Glasgow och sedan tar livet av sig är kommissarie Harry McCoy säker på en sak: Det var ingen slumpmässig våldshandling.Tillsammans med sin nya partner använder sig McCoy av sitt nätverk i Glasgows undre värld för att driva utredningen framåt, men snart stöter han på ett hemligt sällskap som leds av stadens rikaste invånare: familjen Dunlop.McCoys chef vill inte att han utreder dem. Dunlop-familjen verkar vara omöjliga att komma åt. Men McCoy har andra idéer... Blodig januari är en tät, vindlande kriminalroman som levandegör den mörka undersidan av sjuttiotalets Glasgow och etablerar Alan Parks som ett av de mest spännande nya namnen inom skotsk noir. ALAN PARKS föddes i Skottand och gick på Glasgows universitet, där han tog sin master i moralfilosofi. Större delen av sitt liv har han arbetet som fotograf och videoregissör inom musikbranschen och gjort omslag och videor åt band som New Order, All Saints och The Streets. Blodig januari är hans debutroman.»Fantastisk Glasgow-skildring. Jag älskade Alan Parks karaktärer och vill läsa mycket mer om kommissarie Harry McCoy!« | Alex Gray »En klassisk polisroman skriven med finess och ekonomi. Tänk McIlvanney eller Get Carter.« | Ian Rankin »Blodigt och briljant. En påminnelse om vilken mörk plats Glasgow en gång var.« | Louise Welsh
April Dead
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the great Scottish crime writers' The Times 'Brilliant' Sunday Times Crime Club NO ONE WILL FORGET In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few r...
Gunner
A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books 'A notably original protagonist . . . swept up in a high-level conspiracy reaching from Whitehall's corridors of power to Berlin and Rudolf Hess's doomed flight to Sco...
Gunner
Gunner
Rethinking Media Coverage
In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the co...
Say Nothing
A normal Wednesday afternoon, and Judge Scott Sampson is preparing to pick up his six-year-old twins from school. His wife Alison texts with a change of plan - she will be collecting them instead. But when Alison arrives home later she is alone, a...
Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order
Examining the impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community, this text argues that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, showing that in occupied areas the activities of busines...
Both of You
In a marriage built on lies, the truth will destroy BOTH OF YOU. 'Absolutely gripping' Richard Osman 'Chilling ? and entirely unputdownable' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gasping at the twist' Ian Rankin 'Ambitious, nail-biting, darkly voyeuristic' Louise C...
Hero's Way
'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando Figes In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria ...
Total Control
A completely revised version of one of the best-selling motorcycle riding skills books of all time. Today's super high-performance bikes are the most potent vehicles ever sold to the public and they demand advanced riding skills. Get it right, and...
Magic Border
'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch 'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I'm not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you, but here I am, doing it.' The Mag...
Social Movement Campaigns on EU Policy
This book assesses how much influence social movements have on EU policy and the means through which influence is secured. Using wide-ranging case studies of campaigns from GMOs to water rights and Internet freedom, it elucidates the important dif...
Calm
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey fr...
Nature's Machines
Mimi Koehl tinkers with machines. Some are so tiny they can't be seen by the naked eye, and some disappeared millions of years ago. But Mimi isn't a mechanic. She's a biomechanist. Mimi Koehl uses engineering and physics to study the designs of li...
Media Backends
Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticism to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify,
Cultures in Orbit
In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmi...
I Am Rosa Parks
How special and inspiring to read about Rosa Park's life in her own words! This BIOGRAPHY READER is now available in Step into Reading, the premier leveled reader line. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on December 1, 1955, she made history. Her brave act sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and brought the civil rights movement to national attention. In simple, lively language, Rosa Parks describes her life from childhood to the present and recounts the events that shook the nation. Her story is powerful, inspiring and unforgettable. An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence.
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Tim Parks's books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a dec...
Rescuing the 'Inner Child'
Heal your 'inner child' with Parks Inner Child Therapy Victims of child sexual abuse can suffer huge burdens of guilt and emotional trauma as adults, with devastating consequences for their relationships in all areas of their lives. But it's never...
