Last Minute Books For Stockings!

Arrrrrrgggggg it's the 22nd and you have forgotten to buy those vital smaller presents for everyones stockings. Never fear StudentPunch has come up with a list of great books that offers something for everyone. Available from all good bookshops and off that that t'internet! 


Stuart Adamson: In a Big Country by Allan Glen

This is the book that fans of the Skids, Big Country and The Raphaels have been waiting for – a critical perspective not only of Adamson’s music and its wider cultural influence, but also the excesses of fame and how the music business really works. Stuart Adamson: In a Big Country tells the story of how a teenager who was raised in a small Fife village released his first single at 19, wrote three Top 40 albums in the next three years and was written off as a has-been at 23, but then went on to form a new band and sell more than 10 million records worldwide, touring with the Rolling Stones and David Bowie. Although Stuart Adamson was one of the most respected and popular figures in the music industry, his personal life was complex – depression, alcoholism and estrangement – and ultimately tragic, ending with his suicide in a Hawaiian hotel in December 2001.
£14.99 hbk

Held by Elizabeth Burns

This remarkable poetry collection explores the complex ways in which people and things are held – both metaphorically and physically – in the world.
£9.99 pbk

The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig

On the centenary of his birth, one hundred of Norman MacCaig's best poems are brought together, edited by Roderick Watson. MacCaig's fresh eye saw remarkable newness even in the everyday so each poem, although grouped in related subjects, is a tiny revelation, a new look at an old friend. Celebrate, renew, discover Norman MacCaig on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth.
£9.99 pbk

Soor Plooms and Sair Knees: Growing Up in Scotland After the War by Bob Dewar

Soor Plooms and Sair Knees is an hilarious and moving recollection of the writer’s childhood in a small Scottish east coast town during the immediate post-war years. In this warm-hearted, funny, and magnificent portrait, Bob Dewar recalls the community spirit of 1940s Scotland with perfectly balanced nostalgic recollections and glorious illustrations.
£12.99 pbk

The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible by Seumas MacInnes

Seumas MacInnes, one of Scotland’s premier restaurateurs and owner of the iconic Café Gandolfi in Glasgow loves Stornoway Black Pudding. This is his tribute to the other ‘Great chieftain o’ the puddin' race’.
£4.99 pbk

The Scots Kitchen by F. Marian McNeill, Edited by Catherine Brown

This is the first new edition of The Scots Kitchen for over thirty years. Beautifully illustrated, it's a long overdue update on a culinary classic.
£20 hbk

When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro

Played 25, won 10, lost 10 and drawn four. Three goals, three benders, one suspension and one sacking. This is the inside story of what happened when the world’s most famous footballer joined the tenth best team in Scotland.
£9.99 pbk