num_pages: 192
description: 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, and fable, and is culled from the Diary columns that Shields and Ken Smith wrote together five days a week at The Herald.
language: English
title: Tom Shields Takes the Fifth
publisher: Mainstream Publishing