Scratching Shed Publishing: 7 books

“An invaluable record from a comedy superstar...” - Ken Dodd OBE In 1964, a single appearance on TV talent show Opportunity Knocks made ‘Parrotface’ comedian Freddie Davies famous overnight. Spectacular success followed; stars such as Judy Garland, Cliff Richard, even Cary Grant, were...

For years, PC David Watson was a policeman of the old school. He patrolled the towns and cities of England's north by car and on foot, where a fight against crime lurked around every corner. Until, one day, disaster struck - albeit from an unexpected direction. A near fatal encounter in the...

Growing up on one of Scarborough's toughest estates, Paul Ingle pulled on his first pair of boxing gloves at the age of seven. Known by fans, foes and friends as 'The Yorkshire Hunter' he fought almost 200 times as an amateur, representing his country in every major international tournament...

When he broke dramatically onto the senior rugby league scene with his beloved Hull as a gifted teenager, prop Lee Crooks was an archetypal blood and guts heart-on-his-sleeve firebrand front-rower, adored by the Boulevard faithful. A Cup winner and distinguished 19-Test international - best...

As seen on BBC television - The Woman Without a Number is the inspirational story of holocaust survivor Iby Knill, whose early childhood was spent in Czechoslovakia before her parents - alarmed at the persecution of Jews in Germany - smuggled her over the border to Hungary. While there, she was caught...

Certainly, there is an integrity to Mr Mascord.’ - RUSSELL CROWE Steve Mascord spent all his money on twin obsessions: rugby league and rock’n’roll. Aged 47, Steve owned precisely nothing aside from hundreds of records and CDs, and almost every edition of Rugby League Week, all piled in a small...

“A corking read...” - Bernard Wrigley For getting on half a century, Dave Hadfield has followed the genres of music that grabbed his heart and mind in his youth. In All the Wrong Notes, he has written not just a musical memoire, but a personal and social history of the last 50 years. Like...