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PUBLISHER: B & W
ISBN: 9781873631256
PAGES: 265 p.
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The Shipbuilders
As the last ship on the yard’s books goes down the slipway, the future looks desperately bleak for Pagan’s, a proud and long-established Clydeside shipyard struggling to survive during the Great Depression. This novel focuses on the experiences of two men whose lives are irrevocably changed by the yard’s closure.
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David Torrance
David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library and a widely published historian of Scottish and UK politics. He has written unauthorised biographies of SNP politicians Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, as well as the biog …
