Tom Shields' Diary
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781851584222 |
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Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781851584222 |
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Glasgow Herald |
ISBN | : 9781851585045 |
This is the second collection of The Herald Diary's compendium of jokes, anecdotes and arcane observations of life as it is lived in the 1990s, which make up the author's search for the quintessential contradiction at the heart of the Scottish Roman Calvinist psyche.
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781851588800 |
Tom Shields- Free at Last, the third in the Tom Shields' Diary trilogy, has been eagerly awaited by the sort of people who have absolutely no idea what to buy Dad for Christmas. Tom Shields' Diary has become an institution in the Glasgow Herald. The man should have been put in an institution many years ago.
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Scottish wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9781840182576 |
Tom Shields' column in The Herald allows him to delve into any and every aspect of Scottish society. This selection of stories, anecdotes and hilarious road signs brings together in one volume the best extracts from Tom Shields' Diary and Tom Shields Too.
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781840186888 |
""Just when you thought it was safe to go into a bookshop, here is yet another book from that man at the Herald Diary. It is the usual scintillating mixture of anecdote, pith (no, there is no lithp involved) and fable. There will also be some funny photies. This is the fifth book in the Tom Shields trilogy. Yes, his counting is as awful as his writing. This time, however, Shields does not bare the blame alone. This tome is culled from the Diary columns that Shields and Ken Smith wrote together five days a week at The Herald. This was before Pepys the Elder left to embark on a glittering career as a freelance writer, leaving the column in the capable hands of the talented-ish, young-ish, handsome Mr Smith. Tom Shields' writing is featured in four other Mainstream books- Tom Shields' Diary, Tom Shields Too, Tom Shields Free at Last and Tom Shields Goes Forth.""
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1992-11-26 |
Genre | : Newspapers |
ISBN | : 9781851584918 |
This is a compendium of fun, insult and malapropism. For 12 years the Glasgow Herald has paid this man to delve into every aspect of Scottish society. It is a witty irreverent commentary on every aspect of Scottish life. It takes sport, religon and politics and mixes them all whenever possible. It chronicles the culture of Scotland in a down-to-earth manner; some may call it philistinism. It specialises in the curious use of language - Glasgow patter, braid Scots, and there even a few jokes in the Gaelic The targets are many: from bampots to Burnsians, advocates to accountants.
Author | : Ken Smith |
Publisher | : Black & White Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1845027973 |
In uncertain times we all need a good laugh, and this brand new collection from THE HERALD DIARY is sure to help. In Purrsuit of Happiness has hundreds of strange, amusing and hilarious tales that will bring a smie to even the most grim-faced banker, politician or traffic warden. So go on, crack a smile and enjoy!
Author | : Tom Shields |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
This is the last collection of 'bits' from Tom Shields' column as a diarist from The Herald - before old age and infirmity forces him to early retirement. It delves into every aspect of Scottish society - with the simple remit of enjoyment.
Author | : Carol Shields |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307365891 |
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta’s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta’s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.
Author | : Ken Smith |
Publisher | : Black & White Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1785302337 |
So, what did Scots have to smile about in 2018? The world can feel like an alarming and peculiar place – what with the antics of politicians, celebrities, sporting icons and more ordinary folk. Even so, there’s always something funny happening on the streets and in the homes of Scotland. It's lucky for us that readers of The Herald take the time to jot down those everyday chuckles that tickle their funny bone and send them into the paper’s daily Diary column. These tales might be about the gems that the younger generation come out with, the gaffes of those in power at home and abroad, the shenanigans of Scottish football or the ripostes of rocky relationships. Whatever the topic, if it makes you smile it ends up in The Diary. And now the very best of these have been gathered together so that the smiles may continue. From the political trials and tribulations of the year, sports and celebrity scandals and triumphs, and hilarious stories overheard on the street, The Herald Diary has it all, and is a perfect summary of the year.