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David Torrance
David Torrance was born and brought up in Edinburgh and educated at Leith Academy, the University of Aberdeen and Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. He began his journalistic career on the Edinburgh Evening News as a reporter before moving into television to present and produce The Week In Politics for Grampian and Scottish TV and becoming Parliamentary Aide to the Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell at the House of Commons.
David divides his time between Edinburgh and London and works as a writer, journalist and broadcaster, regularly appearing on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC television, as well as supplying obituaries to the Herald and commentary for the Scotsman, The Times and several websites. For more information on David and his books, go to davidtorrance.com.
A Life Well Lived Fondly Remembered
01 December 08
David Torrance launches his new political biography, George Younger: A Life Well Lived.
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Inside Edinburgh
ISBN: 9781841587875
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Author: David Torrance
Publication Date: October 2010
Format: Paperback
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
A compelling, luminous and beautiful record of Edinburgh’s grand interiors, from those that are open for all to see, to those that are seldom recognised.
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Salmond
ISBN: 9781780270661
Category: Biography, Politics
Author: David Torrance
Publication Date: October 2011
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Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
'Well researched, richly detailed,' - Times Literary Supplement
'Torrance is an industrious historian and an assiduous biographer,' - The Herald
The first ever biography of one of the most capable and interesting politicians Scotland has produced in the last few decades.
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Salmond
ISBN: 9781841589145
Category: Biography, Politics
Author: David Torrance
Publication Date: October 2010
Format:
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
'Leaves the reader with the unavoidable impression that Salmond is a uniquely talented politician,' - Total Politics
'Well researched, richly detailed,' - Times Literary Supplement
The first ever biography of one of the most capable and interesting politicians Scotland has produced in the last few decades.
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Scottish Secretaries, The
ISBN: 9781841584768
Category: Politics And Economics
Author: David Torrance
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: in stock
Drawing on first-hand accounts and contemporary correspondence, David Torrance paints vivid biographical portraits of the 39 men and one woman who have held the post of Scottish Secretary since the position was resurrected by Salisbury in 1885.
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We in Scotland
ISBN: 9781841588162
Category: Politics And Economics
Author: David Torrance
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Fascinating reassessment of Scotland’s relationship with the Iron Lady, confronting the many myths, most notably Ravenscraig and the Poll Tax.
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