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Pride of the Bears - Amazon 5-star review

Corkerhill Press — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Neldo - This is about football but is not about football. It is the genealogy of the great Rangers team of the 1970s, providing wonderful bitesize snippets exploring the players' history and their family history. From the days when players were moulded elsewhere, on the streets or with local amateur teams, before training academies existed, it gives an insight into how their personalities were constructed and the families who supported them. If you like a book you can dip in and out of and then say to someone, 'did you know...' then this is the book for you.

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Pride of the Lions: Amazon 5-star review

Corkerhill Press — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Walter Scott - I found Pride of the Lions a cut above most sports books. Perhaps that's because it's more than a story about a great sporting achievement. This wonderful book is about the human history and strange synchronicity that allowed a group of football-daft lads to rise from their local surroundings and take their place among the greats of world football.

Derek Niven weaves together quality journalism, professional genealogy, timeless art, and a fair amount of Scottish swagger to produce a book all sports fans, of all colours, would benefit from reading. Derek echoes the late Liverpool manager Bill Shankly by stating that Jock Stein and his Celtic team are forever among the immortals.

And so now is Derek Niven with his story of the original Celtic family. Derek has managed to lean and lull himself to immortality by capturing in timeless print the historical roots, upbringing, motivation and character of the footballing heroes who came to be known as the Pride Of The Lions.

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2084 The End of Days - Amazon 4-star review

Corkerhill Press — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mairi - In reading this SCIFI novel it pushed me out of my comfort zone. I started it on Friday and finished it on Monday after becoming totally engrossed in the story. This is an excellent book which I would recommend.

I liked the way the characters posed different moral dilemmas for the reader based on history. Yet came together with a common aim.

A well thought out novel with a subtle undercurrent pushing the reader to ultimately evaluate what 'end of days' may mean along with a recognition of the impact on human beings worldwide

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Now Departing from Platform 54 - Amazon 4-star Review

Corkerhill Press — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Anita Dow - Now Departing From Platform 54 is a memoir covering one man's working life on British regional railways from the 1970s until his retirement in 2004, just before privatisation. As a young boy, the author's early fascination with the activities in a local railway signal box led to an eventual full-time career with British Rail in Scotland. Douglas Tetlow describes how this came about, with amusing anecdotes about the characters and situations he encountered. He also shares many interesting scenarios he experienced in that era, before computerisation brought significant changes to his working life. Alcohol consumption at lunchtime and smoking on-site were all part of the job in those days. At times, office workers like Douglas were expected to provide cover for more physical work, such as repairs to railway tracks. The memoir is not delivered entirely chronologically, but mostly in themed chapters, such as the 'Jolly Boys' train journeys across Europe, undertaken with a couple of friends. Author Tetlow has a straightforward and understated writing style, and the book has been well edited and proofread. There are a number of black and white photographs included, which add interest and context. I imagine this memoir will have greatest appeal to those who worked in the industry during the period between the 1970s and the early 2000s, and also train 'spotters' and enthusiasts of the same era.

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