
During his 20-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper, Craig Robertson has interviewed three recent Prime Ministers; attended major stories including 9/11, Dunblane, the Omagh bombing and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann; been pilloried on breakfast television, beaten Oprah Winfrey to a major scoop, been among the first to interview Susan Boyle, spent time on Death Row in the USA and dispensed polio drops in the backstreets of India.
by Craig Robertson
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Pass the hammer to a new generation! This kid-friendly guide covers the essentials of carpentry, including the proper way to drive a nail, the safe way to drill a hole, and the importance of measuring. You’ll be amazed at how fast your miniature carpenter acquires the skills to complete 15 projects that include game boards, play sets, lemonade stands, birdhouses, equine sawhorses, and more. Young
Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. If DS Ra
A series of high-profile shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and police photographer Tony Winter - a man with a tragic hidden past - mystified. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious drug lords in the city? As more shootings occur - including those of police officers - the authorities realise they have a vigilante on their hands. Meanwhile, Tony investigates a
November 1992. Scotland is in the grip of its coldest winter in 30 years and the Lake of Menteith in the Trossachs is frozen over. A young man and woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man comes back. Four months later, as staff prepare the ruined abbey for summer visitors, they discover the remains of the body of a girl
Scottish Police are called to a murder scene in Glasgow's Northern Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies stretched out over a tomb in what looks like a ritualistic murder. Her body bears a three letter message from her killer, daubed in lurid red lipstick. In the 1970s, Danny Neilson was the detective working on the infamous Red Silk murders. Still haunted by the memory of the unsolved invest
A man enters the culverted remains of an ancient Glasgow stream. Deep below the city it is decaying and claustrophobic, and gets more so with every step. As the ceiling lowers to no more than a couple of feet above the ground, he finds his path blocked by another person. But the person is has been murdered.DS Narey leads the investigation to find who the victim is and who killed him. Photogr
The first commuter train of the morning slowly rumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. And then, as the train emerges from a tunnel, the screaming starts. Hanging from the bridge ahead of them is a body. Placed neatly on the ground below him are the victim's clothes. Why? Detective Inspector Narey is assigned the case and then just as quickly taken off it again. Winter, n
'Brilliantly and sensitively written' Steve Cavanagh, bestselling author of Thirteen'Craig Robertson’s Narey and Winter series goes from strength to strength, and this latest instalment is the most compelling. Brace yourself to be horrified and hooked' Eva Dolan, acclaimed author of This is How it EndsThe sergeant took some from each box and spread them around the floor so they could all see. Doze
Gideon is that close to striking it rich—again. The flaw that always seems to trip him up is that he is a con man, a swindler, and a thief. The entire galaxy seems to have it in for the poor crook. Of course, his task of staying alive isn't made any easier since he has to bring along his ex-girlfriend, who has become a zombie. Then again, maybe dragging along Rigel, the universe's dullest man from
Gideon's at it again. That's never a good thing! This time out he is dragging Zebah and Rigel to Earth, that backward rock layered with smelly humans. His goal, as always, is to get rich quick without falling back on any legal tools to do so. Gideon, Gideon. Where on Earth is the money? Washington, DC, of course. So Gideon goes there to wrangle his share from the hands and pockets of
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifa
Gondwana was the ancient southern supercontinent. As it disintegrated millions of years ago, the final great schism came when Australia broke away, along its southern rim, from East Antarctica. As Antarctica died beneath the ice, the Australian ark drifted north into the heat.The forces unleashed by this cataclysm remain to disturb the life of Lane, an amateur scientist. When he begins
by Craig Robertson
If you're a musician or songwriter, or maybe just a hobbyist, you have been writing lyrics, chord progressions, etc. on pieces of scrap paper and they get lost or destroyed when you need them most. You're not alone. With this book you have a place for all of those things in one nice, easy record. It will fit in your guitar case for easy transport. 140 pages of lyrics, tabs, and scales for you to r
by Craig Robertson
by Craig Robertson
A place to keep track of your Lifestyle Journey.140 pages.Lined and an area for all your info as to who, where, when, and what.Personal diary and account of your escapades.
by Craig Robertson
When a ship of interstellar settlers lands on a distant planet called Shiva, a warm and optimistic disabled teen named Luanda emerges from suspended animation to discover that all the adults have vanished without a trace.She awakens the remaining teens, and begins the peril of leading their survival on the unforgiving planet while trying to solve the mystery of what happene
Contains books 1 and 2 of the Road Trips in Space series. The Galaxy According to Gideon (Book 1):Gideon is that close to striking it rich - again. The flaw that always seems to trip him up is that he is a con man, a swindler, and a thief. The entire galaxy seems to have it in for the poor crook. Of course, his task of staying alive isn't made
by Craig Robertson
There's a new drug on the market, but it's not everything it seems to be. For ER doctor Paul Hunter, strange things are afoot. Patients near death are having visions of the afterlife, convinced their souls have been escorted away during trauma. The sole connection between the survivors is an antidepressant called InnerGlow. Newly-ordained priest Pablo Morales has committed himself to a life dedica
The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. Chris Not Given Lightly tells the story of one extraordinarily creative man's journey from the obscurity of punk rock to the heart of New Zealand culture.
by Craig Robertson
In the first book in the series, against all odds, Chris Alan was able to defeat most of the aliens who had conquered Earth.By enlisting the help of a renegade alien AI and her ship, he was able to kill off most of the Dostivex Masters before they could even land. But a significant number of the predatory monsters was already in the process of eating their way through our specie
In Book 1 of “A Teenager's Guide to Saving the Earth,” An Apocalypse and Then Some, against all odds, Chris Alan was able to defeat most of the aliens who conquered Earth. By enlisting the help of a renegade alien AI and her ship, he was able to kill off most of the Dostivex Masters before they could even land. But a significant number of the predatory monsters was already in the pro
Our hero Chris Alan has been in some tight situations, to be sure.Hostile alien invasion, daring rescues of his friends, and trials by the insane kidnapper. But now he's marooned alone on the most hostile planet in the galaxy with no food, water, communication equipment, or spaceship. It couldn't look any bleaker. All he has to do is pull off another miracle with absolutely no r