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44 Years With The Same Bird
There have been football books which have told their tale through the partisan heart of a besotted fan, and those that have dissected their subject through the scientific mind of an objective writer. But rarely does one fuse the blind passion of a lifelong supporter with the cold eye of an award-winning journalist in the way 44 Years With The Same Bird does. That bird is the Liver Bird, and on the surface this book is a pitch-side view of the entire modern era of Britain's most successful football club. It is Brian Reade's take on the extraordinary stories behind the 48 trophies he has seen Liverpool lift since watching them en route to their first ever FA Cup win in 1965, right through to t...
An Epic Swindle
AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It is the tale of a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through the High Court and almost into administration. Players Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher tell of their anger at the broken promises, as well as their pain at watching loyal fans in open revolt. Manager, chief executive, board members, leading fans and journalists reveal the turmoil at a revered sporting institution run by two men at war with each other, who trampled Liverpool's cherished traditions into the gutter. No story sums up the naked greed at the heart of modern football quite like Hicks' and Gillett's attempt to turn a buck at Liverpool. No-one has had as much access to the truth, or tells it with as much passion, wit and insight as Brian Reade. AN EPIC SWINDLE is the riveting story of how close one of the great football clubs came to financial implosion.
Aubrey Beardsley
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Diamonds in the Mud
SOMETHING unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed. Suddenly celebrity businessmen, actors, sports stars, singers, even royals seemed irrelevant. The people we were truly in awe of were the low-paid lifesavers, so much so that we stood outside our homes every Thursday to applaud them. As spring turned to summer and the Black Lives Matter movement gathered momentum, action was taken against those from past generations who had been feted, such as Bristol slave trader Edward Colston whose statue was hauled down. It felt as though the country was re-evaluating the notion of heroism. But how did we arrive at such a skewed version of it? 'Diamonds in the Mud' asks why the British have traditionally been taught to venerate kings and queens, generals and Eton-educated Prime Ministers, while, a few notable exceptions aside, those who changed history from below rarely got a look-in. It does so by telling the stories of a selection of working-class heroes the award-winning writer has met through life and journalism.
Sexual Heretics
"68 Charles Kains-Jackson 'The New Chivalry' 1894"--"69 Eric, Count Stenbock 'Narcissus' 1894"--"70 Edward Carpenter Homogenic Love 1894" -- "71 Alan Stanley 'August Blue' 1894" -- "72 Bertram Lawrence 'A Summer Hour' 1894" -- "73 John Francis Bloxam 'The Priest and the Acolyte' 1894" -- "74 Lord Alfred Douglas 'Two Loves' 1894" -- "75 Lord Alfred Douglas 'In Praise of Shame' 1894" -- "76 Oscar Wilde The Portrait of Mr. W.H. 1889-95" -- "77 Lord Alfred Douglas 'Rondeau' 1895" -- "78 Mark André Raffalovich 'Tulip of the Twilight' 1895" -- "79 Frederick William Rolfe from 'Stories Toto Told Me' 1896" -- "80 Percy Addleshaw 'All Souls' Night' 1896" -- "81 A.E. Housman 'Look Not in my Eyes' 1896" -- "82 A.E. Housman 'If Truth in Hearts that Perish' 1896" -- "83 A.E. Housman 'Shot? so Quick, so Clean an Ending?' 1896" -- "84 George Ives 'With Whom, then, should I Sleep?' 1896" -- "85 John Le Gay Brereton (the Younger) 'Rouge et Noir' 1896" -- "86 Aleister Crowley 'Dedicace' 1898" -- "87 Aleister Crowley 'Go into the Highways' 1898" -- "88 E.A.W. Clarke from Jaspar Tristram 1899" -- "89 Horatio Brown 'Bored' 1900
The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19)
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
43 Years with the Same Bird
There have been football books which have told their tale through the partisan heart of a besotted fan, and those that dissected their subject through the scientific mind of an objective writer. But rarely does one fuse the blind passion of a lifelong supporter with the cold eye of an award-winning journalist in the way 43 Years With The Same Bird does. That bird is the Liver Bird, and on the surface, this book is a pitch-side view of the entire modern era of Britain's most successful football club. It is Brian Reade's take on the extraordinary stories behind the 48 trophies he has seen Liverpool lift since watching them en route to their first-ever FA Cup win in 1965, right through to the C...
Mapping Male Sexuality
Essays on attitudes to same sex relationships in nineteenth century England. The essays examine writers such as Byron, George Eliot, Wilde, Shaw and others.
44 Years with the Same Bird
Fusing the blind passion of a lifelong supporter with the cold eye of an award-winning journalist, this is an up-close and personal view of the entire modern era of Britain's most successful football club. From their first ever FA Cup win in 1965 to the Champions League defeat in Athens in 2007, this overview takes on the extraordinary stories behind the 48 trophies Liverpool has won. Highlighting the memorable nights that propelled the club to five European Cups, three UEFA Cups, 12 titles, and countless domestic cup triumphs, this account also discusses their bitter failures, the tragic disasters in Sheffield and Brussels, and the barren years of the late 60s and the 90s.
