Brewin Books: 8 books

The first time Brian Clough, football's most volatile manager, met journalist Trevor Frecknall, he kicked him out of the Nottingham Forest ground. The last time the same journalist covered a Cup Final, Clough asked him to carry Forest's newly-won trophy out of Wembley. Frecknall's recollections of...

Over 80 ex-employees and their descendants give perceptive and often humorous accounts of life in the Enfield works, charting its expansion from a humble needle factory into one of Britain’s best known motorcycle manufacturers. Contributions include Enfield-trained Bill Lomas, double World and British...

Stylish and dark, the BBC series the ‘Peaky Blinders’ is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War and tells of the rise to power of Thomas Shelby and his criminal gang. Yet the real stories behind these fictional characters are just as dramatic, bloody and compelling as the...

The people of Lavender Court is a retrospective look at the backstreets of Birmingham in the early years of the twentieth century. The book is based on the memories of the residents of an old people’s home whose life stories have been distilled and combined to form a compelling indictment of slum life enlightened only by the courage and humour of those who lived there.

Born in 1966, Kash ‘the Flash’ Gill is proud of his ‘roots’ in Birmingham’s inner city area of Handsworth. Kash was the first Asian to become World Champion in a contact sport. Today he remains the unbeaten four times World Kickboxing Champion. Standing tall at 6ft 3” he has an impressive...

A short history of the nation's favourite chocolate manufacturer. Foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury.

Worcestershire brothers, Mac and Barry Goodwin’s, true story told from a bedrock of fact but as living flesh. Their mastery of the air as teenagers and then as RAF pilots in 605 (The County of Warwick) Squadron and 609 (West Riding) Squadron in WW2 flying Hurricanes and Spitfires is set against...

Fiona Eastley, an attractive young widow, is recovering from the trauma of her husband’s sudden death. Holidaying on the beautiful island of Skiathos, in the middle of the Aegean Sea, she meets not one, but two handsome strangers, who are destined to transform her life. But the Sirens of Greek Mythology...