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• Cassius X

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £12.99

  Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: ‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’ (Cinema release Spring 2023)  Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in...

• A Dance Called America

  Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £14.99

  Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond. A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks...

• Detroit 67

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2016

  £12.99

  Fully revised and edited edition. Shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize. Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped...

• Harlem 69

  Paperback | Pub: 11 Apr 2019

  £9.99

  Plunge into the epic story of Harlem’s soul scene. In 1969, among Harlem’s Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy ‘Goldfinger’ Terrell. In...

• The Tobacco Lords

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2024

  £20.00

  In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable success came about against fierce international...