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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838939472 | ISBN 10: 1838939474
Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie.
Manchester, 1960s. Sally, a cynical fifteen-year-old scho ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526168450 | ISBN 10: 1526168456
At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473665255 | ISBN 10: 1473665256
An Observer Best Book of 2020
It is New Year's Eve, 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride, Munira, to seek his fortune in England. His cousin and only friend, Rofikul, introduces Hashim to life in Manchester - including Rof ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9783740807535 | ISBN 10: 3740807539
Manchester is far more than a grey provincial city preoccupied with the business of making money. The bales of cotton goods awaiting export have gone from the grand warehouses styled like palaces, and the cotton mills no longer hum with the sound of ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075895 | ISBN 10: 178607589x
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019
AN AMBITIOUS AND ASSURED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF KINTU.
If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's ho ... more
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£5.95 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780993224720 | ISBN 10: 0993224725
This book tells the dramatic stories of Manchester women who campaigned for social change and progress in the years between 1914 and 1945. Â It includes women who: campaigned during the First World War for a just and lasting peace that would prevent ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526134356 | ISBN 10: 1526134357
This book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain. Based on research into a wide variety of local sources, it examines the process by which the Irish came to be blame ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784631482 | ISBN 10: 1784631485
n this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes of his colleagues. Only after rescuing and acquiring ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008166137 | ISBN 10: 0008166137
Late nineteenth-century Manchester is a city of charms and dangers the perfect playground for young siblings, Edie and Gnome. But as they grow up, they grow apart, and while Gnome revels in the night-time, Edie wakes each morning, exhausted and uneas ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089137 | ISBN 10: 1847089135
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the ins ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908434869 | ISBN 10: 1908434864
Voiced by Donna and her streetwise god-daughter Aurora, this thrillingly original crime novel unfolds at breakneck speed – at once furious, tender and heartbreaking.
Lesbian gangster and street poet Donna runs the all-female Bronte Close Gan ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993439902 | ISBN 10: 099343990x
In the middle of the Great War, members of the Irish community in British cities resolved to travel to Dublin to prepare for a rebellion to achieve Independence for Ireland.
The part played by the Manchester Volunteers has never before been ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445639895 | ISBN 10: 1445639890
Popular history will tell the tale of how the steam locomotive came to dominate Victorian Britain but while the steam railway died out in the 1960s, the electric railway was already a success story and one that would not only endure but dominate rail ... more
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£18.95 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781901746907 | ISBN 10: 1901746909
Roger Eagle was a towering figure in British popular music. Uniquely, his influence straddled the cultural divide separating Manchester and Liverpool. The task of unifying the musical talents of these two cultural hubs has proved beyond almost everyo ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780719082320 | ISBN 10: 0719082323
This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circ ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007446308 | ISBN 10: 0007446306
‘Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there’s honestly nothing like it… I’ve since brought more than 2,200 babies into the world, and I still ting ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954281694 | ISBN 10: 0954281691
"There are angels in the northwest
They swear and fight
Knock seven kinds of shite
Out of clouds and fairy dust.
Whisper sweet nothings to
Shooting stars
Prop open clubs and bars
Don't make noises when they
Cry."(from 'Manchester')
... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781853069031 | ISBN 10: 1853069035
What better way to spend a leisurely few hours than to drive to the countryside, stretch your legs and then visit a good pub for some fine food. The 40 circular routes in this book show how this can be done. Each route, starting and finishing at or n ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780300096668 | ISBN 10: 0300096666
Manchester is the first in a brand new series of affordable, pocket-sized guides to England's cities and the first to include integrated colour illustrations. Clare Hartwell's detailed guide examines the full range and variety of Manchester's b ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781841151465 | ISBN 10: 1841151467
The definitive account of the pop cult capital of the UK by Dave Haslam, one of Manchester's top DJs and journalists.
Manchester, a predominantly working-class city, away from the nation's capital, has been at the margins of English culture ... more
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