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The narrator of The Bromsgrove Business, beset by hapless marital and familial relationships, is writing a novel about academic life which is gradually taken over by spirit communicators revealing the solution to the murder of a local cricketer in Bromsgrove in the 1930s… This intriguing mixture of the fantastic with the poignantly plausible will test your powers of deduction and keep you chortling!
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Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain's most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys firm and their successors, the New Generation, controlled a lucrative drugs empire in Essex and throughout the south east of England by using intimidation, gratuitous violence and murder. Rampaging through the streets and clubland, they destroyed anything and anybody that dared to get in their way. Eventually torn apart by greed and paranoia, the gang members became victims of their own vile trade and hate-filled actions. Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe were all blasted repeatedly with a shotgun as they sat in their Range Rover down a remote farm ...
When Steve Ellis was a youthful Gregory award-winning poet, the Literary Review hailed him as 'a wonderfully no-nonsense writer...a sardonic Yorkshireman monitoring scenes rooted in directly accessible experience'. He went on to publish his first book with Bloodaxe in 1987, Home and Away, which got some good reviews. Seven years have passed, and Ellis has assembled a second collection. Life may have frayed him a bit in the meantime, but his deadpan humour is as wicked as ever, and he's still able to chronicle the rituals of family and the sad or absurd nuances of ordinary lives with warmth, affection, and just a little grumpiness. He's acquired a wife and family, a mortgage and a cat, and bears his responsibilities with a shrug andthe odd, wary poem. He's moved to Birmingham, where he teaches at the University, and he's become something of an authority on Dante and Eliot. And he's written this book of wry, often hilarious poems: about lawnmowers, growing up in York, shoes, fish and chips, the death of Joe Loss, Christmas cards, and other matters of great and small importance.
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A funny, beautifully illustrated story which will appeal to any child who has ever been called a bossy boots! Sophie thinks it is unfair that she is often called a bossy boots. But things get worse when she puts her feet into a mischievous pair of brand new shiny boots, who speak in rhyme and lead her on a merry dance through the streets, up and down her bedroom walls, across the ceiling and into all sorts of adventures - and trouble.Sophie gets the blame for everything and you can imagine what people think when she says,"it was the boots that did it, not me....".Well, it does not sound very likely, does it?
Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Fuelled by vast quantities of drink, drugs, insecurities and confusion, Moon destroyed everything with gleeful abandon: drum kits, houses, cars, hotels, relationships and, finally, himself. In Dear Boy, Tony Fletcher has captured lightning in a bottle – the essence of a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him. From a life distorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, Fletcher has created a searingly personal portrait of the rock legend. From over 100 first-hand interviews, he traces with deadly accu...
Analyses the properties, processes and classification of soils, their environmental history, soil-human interactions and the future. A broad and balanced book covering a wide spectrum of environmentally-related subjects.
intotheBLUE is his first book and you are invited to embark on a spirit journey with the wolf, the lonely guide of the soul. Stalk the shadows of solitude, the cavernous emptiness within a man who has lost his love. Discover, in these depths, the bittersweet lake of memories and regrets, a reflecting pool of the past showing with painful clarity things that once were and never will be again. Loss is what drives the wolf to howl at the night, in the hopes that somewhere out there, someone precious to it will hear its cry. Steve Ellis soulful compositions are windows into the heart that will take readers intotheBlue.
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