A follow-up memoir to Paul Ferris' critically acclaimed The Boy on the Shed for which he won virtually every major sports writing award. This is not a football book or even a sports book. It is a memoir about his survival from the most acute health problems though, by a true sportsman in every sense of the word.
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardThe Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year The Times Sports Book of the Year Telegraph Football Book of the Year
A warm welcome or a blade in the guts - it's the contradiction that makes Glasgow unique. This work offers up forty modern murder cases. This collection of tales graphically explores how the city has earned its unenviable title of Murder Capital of Europe. It highlights some of the most sickening murders to be committed in the world.
Going decade by decade through the 20th century and telling the true stories of crime on Scotland's mean streets, 'Killers, Crooks and Cons' is an exploration of the dark side of the country's past.
A remarkable sporting memoir with a foreword by Alan Shearer
Cormac is a Junior Government Minister who returns to Ireland after a 22 year absence. He comes face to face with the fiancée he abandoned and must also finally confront the dark secret from his past that not only threatens his very existence but could also destroy the hard won peace in Northern Ireland. The story focuses on Cormac's attempt to rekindle his relationship with Bernadette, whilst in the background lurks the menacing figure of Liam, his deranged former friend, who is hell bent on revenge for what he sees as Cormac's betrayal of him all those years ago
No-one could rule bloody Glasgow, they said. Arthur Thompson proved them all wrong. From a normal working class family, Thompson started out as a bouncer, minder and bagman. Hard, bright, he learned young. Cross him - you were scarred. Cheat him - he nailed you to the floor. The gangsters of Glasgow thought it couldn't get worse. It did.
This is the real inside story of notorious villains, by one of their own. Murder, gunrunning, drug trafficking, kneecappings - Paul Ferris has been accused of many things in his life, some true, some not. What's not in dispute is that he spent twenty-five years as one of Britain's most feared gangsters. Out of prison and straight for five years, Paul still hasn't forgotten the common thugs and big-time players that surrounded him or the world of violence, fear and uneasy alliances that he inhabited with them. Now Paul Ferris recounts the stories of a tough existence that nobody knows better. The brutality you'd expect, the strangeness you might not. There's the man wanted by everyone from the Old Bailey to Glasgow High Court but who might just be a figment of the cops' imagination; the rise of women in the underworld, with unheard-of power and loaded pistols in thigh holsters; or the betrayed Manchester face who visited a gang's club and sprayed it with bullets, only to become the gang's hero overnight. The stories cover the underbellies of London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and beyond, but the material couldn't be closer to home - from the job Paul's father, Willie Ferris, pulled with a school bus full of kids as the getaway vehicle, to the war Paul got caught up in between two of London's biggest teams. And, as you'll discover, when it comes to villains, it takes one to know one.
On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. Feared for his capacity for extreme violence, respected for his intelligence, Ferris was the Godfather's heir apparent. Disgusted, Ferris left the Godfather and stood alone. schovat popis