Product Description: My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb...read more

Product Description: Harry Ritchie takes a trip around the vestiges of the British Empire—the last pink bits on the world map—belatedly attempting to answer the question asked by George V—How is the Empire? (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a collection of work from various Scottish writers who have revolutionized late-twentieth-century literature, such as Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Janice Galloway, William Boyd, and others. Original.