Some Books For Your Stocking

It’s the start of December so no matter if you want to or not it’s time to start thinking of Xmas presents. Buying smaller presents for the parents, brother, sister and just about everyone, can be tricky so we have put together a list of books we feel might save you trawling around the shops in the snow! They include everything from books on football, spamming and even folk music!

Delete This At Your Peril by Neil Forsyth

As serialised in the Guardian and read by Brian Cox on BBC Radio. A critically-led cult following has grown up around this outrageously funny book, and no wonder... This hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, is topping the best-seller lists. Spam is the plague of the electronic age, comprising 90% of all emails sent and conning over £150m a year from British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant – a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate with a love of wine, women and song as well as a keen sense of fair play. This wickedly funny and original book features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the hapless spam merchants. As they offer Bob lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams he responds by generously offering some outlandish schemes of his own. The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and sows confusion in his wake.
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh picked Delete This at Your Peril for Esquire’s Funniest Books Ever Written. 
£6.99 pbk

Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee by Neil Forsyth

“I have worked with a lot of funny men - Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Harry Enfield. Bob servant is in a class of his own," - Barry Fontani, Private Eye

Following on from the success of Delete This at Your Peril, Neil Forsyth now brings you the biography of Bob Servant. Sixty-three years old and resolutely single, Servant spends his days with a small number of trusted associates pursuing unlikely business opportunities, giving stern views on current affairs and ‘chasing skirt’. His outlook on life is one of unbridled ambition and self-belief as he constantly battles the local ‘boo boys’ for the respect that he undoubtedly deserves. Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee charts the hilarious, whimsical and action-packed life-story of Bob Servant, unveiling with touching bravery, a fearless romp through a life full of incident, from his rise from a childhood of abject poverty, through a career in the merchant navy, his establishment of the largest window-cleaning round in Western Europe and his part in Dundee’s infamous Cheeseburger Wars of the early 1990s, to his current standing as an ‘unemployed gigolo’ in Broughty Ferry.
£6.99 pbk

Behind the Thistle by David Barnes and Peter Burns

Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments – international rugby. Drawing on first-hand interviews from a vast array of former and current players, from Russell Bruce and Frank Coutts in the 1940s, all the way through to the present day, the authors uncover the heart and soul of Scottish rugby, recounting the ecstasy of victory and the despair of defeat, drawing out innumerable humorous anecdotes and heart-warming memories.
£20 hbk








The Management: Scotland’s Greatest Football bosses by Michael Grant and Rob Robertson

Why has Scotland produced so many of the best football managers in the world? Based on exclusive interviews with the men themselves, their players or close friends and family, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson reveal the huge contribution that Scottish managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Jock Stein, Tommy Docherty, Jim McLean, Kenny Dalglish, George Graham, Walter Smith, Gordon Strachan, Alex McLeish and David Moyes, as well as a host of others, have made to the world game.
£18.99 hbk

A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde by Kevin MacNeil

'MacNeil's novel, though drawing on Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is never slavishly derivative. His Method Actor's Guide is, in its finest glinting moments, that "whole new thing" of which Hemingway wrote, and from first to last an enticing read,' - Tom Adair, The Scotsman
£12.99 hbk

Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile by Allan Brown

A fascinating personal memoir and critical study, on the strange and elusive mythology of cult Scottish rock group The Blue Nile.
£14.99 hbk

Great Folk Discography by Martin C Strong

An essential purchase for all lovers of folk music, the first volume of The Great Folk Discography trilogy examines the early folk legends and pioneers.
£20 pbk

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