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Stranded at the Drive-In

The 100 Best Teen Movies

by Garry Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011

Acclaimed writer of This is Uncool and Popcorn turns his attention to the (first ever) look at the teen movie Everyone undergoes some kind of teenage trauma, and a fundamental way of coping, or rite of passage, is the teen movie. Yet until now there has been no book that explores this successful...
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The Anatomy of Liverpool

A History in Ten Matches

by Jonathan Wilson, Scott Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

Jonathan Wilson and Scott Murray provide a forensic analysis of ten key Liverpool games that have shaped the club's fortunes over the last century: from the long-lost triumphs of Tom Watson (a 19th-century Bill Shankly) to 1970s European triumphs over the likes of Borussia Monchengladbach and the...
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Rebus: Long Shadows

The New Play

by Ian Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018

The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus in this brand new, original story by Ian Rankin, written alongside the award-winning playwright Rona Munro. John Rebus is not as young as he was, but his detective instincts have never left him. And after the daughter of a murder victim...
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by Christian Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

Castillon: Part One of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century. 1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who have taken him captive. He's not a professional soldier. He's really...
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by Helen McCloy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

It's 1943, and down-on-his-luck American expat Philip Stark is on the Caribbean island of Santa Teresa. The prewar destination playground is deserted now except for diplomats and oil refinery workers. When a local correspondent dies, Stark sees a chance to make some money. Having worked for...
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by Christian Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

'One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world' Ben Kane Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a hired sword in the endless warring between Italy's city states. But when a message comes from the Grand Master of the Hospitaliers, William...
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by Maureen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011

A gripping Second World War novel, from the bestselling author of NOTHING LASTS FOREVER and THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children. To make up for the love and passion...
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by Maureen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012

Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion. On 3 September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: it was Amy's eighteenth birthday;...
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by Maureen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012

A heart-warming tale set in Liverpool and London during the post-war years, from bestselling author Maureen Lee. Liverpool, 1945. Three women, firm friends, return home from the war and try to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war,...
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Caligula

The Damned Emperors Book 1

by Simon Turney
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018

'An engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' Antonia Senior, The Times **'**Caligula as you've never seen him before! A powerfully moving read from one of the best ancient world authors in the business' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Everyone knows his name. Everyone thinks they know...
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by Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa can either be read as full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 1 OF 3. 'We ain't got no drink, Pa.' I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back. 'We don't have no grog cos you drank...
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Farewell Britannia

A Family Saga Of Roman Britain

by Simon Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

A vivid and gripping account of Roman Britain, written as a family history Brilliant young historian Simon Young has invented a multi-generational family, part Roman, part Celtic (invaders intermarrying with natives) to tell the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman rule in Britain. Vivid historical...
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Back Home

England And The 1970 World Cup

by Jeff Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

The full story of England and the 1970 World Cup. Mexico, the summer of 1970: Pelé, Brazil 4 Italy 1 in the Final, Gordon Banks' save against Brazil, Bobby Moore and the Bogotá bracelet, Bobby Charlton's substitution, televised match action (in colour), the single 'Back Home', the Esso coin...
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by Richard Grindal
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015

A fashionable French painter is found strangled, a crime highly embarrassing for the Establishment as his wife, a lady of dubious morals, was in the news a year earlier when the President of France happened to die in her bed. And the last thing the authorities want is to revive the whole outrage. But...
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