Listening to a Radio Moscow broadcast on holiday on Jura, Glasgow schoolboy Robert Harvie finds errors in the programme which he reports to the Russians. Then, as a student, the Soviets give him a grant, and so Robert is inadvertently compromised. His first job takes him to Ghana, and soon he has murder on his hands. How can he escape Soviet attention?
Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life.
A unique story of a middle-aged housewife recruited by the British Intelligence Services during World War Two.
Sam Harvie, son of a circus manager, causes mayhem and is eventually dismissed from the Prosecution services. He tries his hand at a variety of jobs but they all result in a sacking.
Billy Hansen was born with Polydactyly. He has extra fingers, twelve fingers instead of ten. When Billy finds a piano in his classroom, he realises that he can use his extra fingers to his advantage.