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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 84 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers by Various authors
    Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580950 | ISBN 10: 1910580953

    After the Lockdowns and the doorstop applause for frontline workers came to an end, carers, warehouse workers, medical and mental health professionals came together with Writing on the Wall to share their experiences of working on the frontline durin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greek Community of Liverpool: A History 1822-2022 by S.B. Williams
    The Greek Community of Liverpool: A History 1822-2022 - by S.B. Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780993552458 | ISBN 10: 0993552455

    Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city populated by people and communities from all over the world. One of the least known components is the Greek community.   Greek people have created colonies and communities around Europe and the wider world since ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wally Brown: A Life - Born & Raised in Liverpool 8 by Wally Brown
    Wally Brown: A Life - Born & Raised in Liverpool 8 - by Wally Brown

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580998 | ISBN 10: 1910580996

    Over ten years ago, Wally Brown sat down with a pen and paper to begin writing his memoirs – anything that he could remember of his life for the sake of his children and grandchildren so that they may know what life was like from his earliest years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool: A Memoir of Words by Tony Crowley
    Liverpool: A Memoir of Words - by Tony Crowley

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781837644384 | ISBN 10: 1837644381

    Included in the TLS Books of the Year 2023  Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pastor Daniels Ekarte And The African Churches Mission: Liverpool 1931-1964 by Marika Sherwood
    Pastor Daniels Ekarte And The African Churches Mission: Liverpool 1931-1964 - by Marika Sherwood

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739321178 | ISBN 10: 1739321170

    A young man arrived in Liverpool from Nigeria around 1915, expecting to find the streets paved with gold. The Dingle area of Toxteth he settled in was instead depressed, poor, racist, and to his mind, ungodly. In 1931, he founded the African Churches ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Day in April - A Hillsborough Story by Jenni Hicks
    One Day in April - A Hillsborough Story - by Jenni Hicks

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409196242 | ISBN 10: 1409196240

    On the morning of Saturday 15 April 1989, Jenni Hicks, her husband, and their two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, went to watch a football match. That was to be their last day as a family. Sarah and Vicki didn't come home, and Jenni's world was c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Different Voices Shared Lives: A Collection of New Writing from Voices Across Liverpool City Region by Various authors
    Different Voices Shared Lives: A Collection of New Writing from Voices Across Liverpool City Region - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580851 | ISBN 10: 1910580856

    Different Voices Shared Lives is a unique collection of writing by members of black, Asian and other racial minority communities from across the Liverpool City Region which offers new insights into the region’s culture and heritage. This book bring ... more

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  • Cover image of book Always Red by Len McCluskey
    Always Red - by Len McCluskey

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781682193396 | ISBN 10: 168219339x

    Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.  In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chasing Tales: A Different Kind of Travel Book by Ken Hopley
    Chasing Tales: A Different Kind of Travel Book - by Ken Hopley

    £19.95   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781803811611 | ISBN 10: 1803811617

    Chasing Tales is the first-hand account of a working man's travels round some of the world's hottest spots - literally and metaphorically.   Written by Liverpool-born engineer, Ken Hopley, it spans his first sea-trip to Mexico in 1967 as a young M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
    Letters to Gil - by Malik Al Nasir

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008464479 | ISBN 10: 0008464472

    "A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure"(Irenosen Okojie) Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Talk Of Liverpool: 33 Years of Conversations With My Heroes (and Some Villains!) by Paddy Shennan
    The Talk Of Liverpool: 33 Years of Conversations With My Heroes (and Some Villains!) - by Paddy Shennan

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915306067 | ISBN 10: 191530606x

    The Talk of Liverpool is a unique record of life in one of the world’s most talked about cities across four headline-making decades.  Paddy Shennan covered the biggest subjects and talked to people who dominated Merseyside life between the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool Dockers: History of Rebellion and Betrayal by Mike Carden
    Liverpool Dockers: History of Rebellion and Betrayal - by Mike Carden

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739656300 | ISBN 10: 173965630x

    In an inspirational struggle that began in September 1995 and lasted for two years and four months, 500 Liverpool dockers fought for their jobs after being sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. Liverpool Dockers: History of Rebellion and Betray ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Royal Hotel by Dell Winslade
    The Royal Hotel - by Dell Winslade

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780993552434 | ISBN 10: 0993552439

    From the early 1900s right up to the 1930s, the Royal Hotel was one of the most popular hotels in Liverpool. Situated in Lime Street, the Royal was run by the Winslade family. It was also their home.  The family consisted of parents Harry and Jan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young
    Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay - by Jeff Young

    £12.00   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908213921 | ISBN 10: 1908213922

    Jeff Young takes us on a journey through haunted places of memory and loss, summoning the ghosts of loved ones and long-departed heroes who somehow still occupy the disappearing nooks and ruins of the city.  Walking through the last remnants of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club by Chris Allen
    Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club - by Chris Allen

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838346805 | ISBN 10: 1838346805

    Football Without Borders is the story of one man's search for the soul of football.  Having become disillusioned with the corporatisation of top-level football in the early 1990s, Chris Allen embarks on a love affair with non-league football.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady: An Intimate Biography of Sir Ken Dodd by Tony Nicholson with Lady Anne Dodd
    The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady: An Intimate Biography of Sir Ken Dodd - by Tony Nicholson with Lady Anne Dodd

    £17.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781914227004 | ISBN 10: 191422700x

    This book, thanks to Ken's wife, Lady Dodd, gives the first ever in-depth account of his astonishing story, and unravels 'the other Ken Dodd' - the fascinating, kind and complicated private man with whom she spent her life. Sir Ken Dodd was a nationa ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Princes Park Health Centre by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones
    A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Princes Park Health Centre - by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910580561 | ISBN 10: 1910580562

    "At its best Princes Park Health Centre was Nye Bevan’s dream fulfilled: health care, free for all at their point of need, from the cradle to the grave."(Chas Clegg, district nurse) Princes Park Health Centre, in Liverpool 8, was founded b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Littlewoods Pools Girls by Joan Boyce
    Littlewoods Pools Girls - by Joan Boyce

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910580424 | ISBN 10: 1910580422

    Littlewoods Pools Girls by Joan Boyce is based on interviews she conducted with many of the women who worked at Littlewoods.   For forty years until 1990s, Littlewoods Pools was one of the most famous brands in Britain. Millions played the Pools ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of the Smyth Wailey
    Diary of the Smyth Wailey's - by Tony Wailey

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781910580462 | ISBN 10: 1910580465

    Researching a family history can't erase the facts that what you don't really know and try to set down you'll never really know. The facts are like emigre' years, seen through the haze of distance, with blurred lines and distorted perspectives like b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Back in the Day: Vol. 1 - Liverpool 8 Social History 1984-89 by Leroy Cooper
    Back in the Day: Vol. 1 - Liverpool 8 Social History 1984-89 - by Leroy Cooper

    £20.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781527236967 | ISBN 10: 152723696x

    Leroy Cooper understands the power of art to transform energy. Through street art, poetry, photography, painting and music, Leroy's personal experience has become his legacy.   Following his arrest in Liverpool 8 in 1981, his name has been inextr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freaks Like Me by Georgina Peterson
    Freaks Like Me - by Georgina Peterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788785952 | ISBN 10: 1788785959

    Georgie was just a typical teenager when it happened; she was studying hard for a place at her dream university and having fun with her friends on weekends. She always knew what was coming next. She had her entire life planned, until one night and on ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Pitt Street to Granby by Prof. Mike Boyle, Tony Wailey, Madeline Heneghan
    From Pitt Street to Granby - by Prof. Mike Boyle, Tony Wailey, Madeline Heneghan

    £6.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910580288 | ISBN 10: 1910580287

    This is an important second book from Writing on the Wall based upon the Granby community and shows how parts of that community had moved from the southern docks around Pitt street 'up the hill' to the present day area we know and love in Liverpool 8 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stay With Me, Rhys by Melanie Jones
    Stay With Me, Rhys - by Melanie Jones

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780753552292 | ISBN 10: 0753552299

    ‘Stay with me, Rhys,’ I kept saying over and over again. ‘Please stay with me. I love you.’  There was still no expression in his eyes. I was talking and talking to him, desperate to let him know I was there, but there was no flicker in his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses by Stephen McGann
    Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses - by Stephen McGann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471160813 | ISBN 10: 1471160815

    His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s.  His ancestors settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive.  Some of them became soldiers serving on the Western Front.  One would be the last man to step off ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472947338 | ISBN 10: 1472947339

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toxteth Tales: Growin
    Toxteth Tales: Growin' up in Liverpool 8 - by Ken Hayter

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910837139 | ISBN 10: 191083713x

    Liverpool in the 40s and 50s: a city of safe, cosy little streets - except when Hitler's Luftwaffe couldn't find the docks. A city of two-up, two-downs, where two or three generations lived within a few doors of each other, and often behind one door. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Passage Across the Mersey by Robert Bhatia
    Passage Across the Mersey - by Robert Bhatia

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008168889 | ISBN 10: 0008168881

    The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.  When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-clas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Penny Lane and All That by Ann Carlton
    Penny Lane and All That - by Ann Carlton

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784613693 | ISBN 10: 178461369x

    Penny Lane and All That is a celebration of growing up in Liverpool's Penny Lane neighbourhood in the 1940s and 1950s – a place and time very familiar to the Quarrymen/Beatles who celebrated it in their well-known song.   From first-hand exp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paul McCartney: The Biography by Philip Norman
    Paul McCartney: The Biography - by Philip Norman

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780226408 | ISBN 10: 1780226403

    Illuminating biography of legendary composer, musician and performer Paul McCartney.  The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.  Superbly evoking half a ce ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)
    Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett - by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)

    £12.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786940759 | ISBN 10: 1786940752

    George Garrett’s autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool: Gateway to Heaven and Hell - A Personal Odyssey by Neil Deane
    Liverpool: Gateway to Heaven and Hell - A Personal Odyssey - by Neil Deane

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9783864605734 | ISBN 10: 3864605733

    This book on Liverpool offers the reader many things: a comprehensive social and cultural history; an insider travel guide; an analysis of the city's people and the places they inhabit; the gripping tale of the Beatles in their Liverpool home and an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester
    Twopence to Cross the Mersey - by Helen Forrester

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008180966 | ISBN 10: 0008180962

    Helen Forrester's poignant story of her poverty-striken childhood in Liverpool during the 1930s has become a bestselling modern classic.�When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930, she and her six siblings were forced from comfortable midd ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker
    The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story - by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker

    £12.50   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781616558352 | ISBN 10: 1616558350

    Eisner and Harvey Award winner! "If anyone was ‘The Fifth Beatle’ it was Brian."(Paul McCartney) The Fifth Beatle graphic novel recounts the untold true story of Brian Epstein - the visionary manager who created Beatlemania and guided the ... more

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  • Cover image of book 61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC
    61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer - by Howard Gayle

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909245396 | ISBN 10: 1909245399

    In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich.   The previous October, by filling the same role at Manc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
    Thatcher Stole My Trousers - by Alexei Sayle

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408864548 | ISBN 10: 1408864541

    'What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.'  In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon and Hunter Davies
    The John Lennon Letters - by John Lennon and Hunter Davies

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780225036 | ISBN 10: 1780225032

    A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon.   John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imag ... more

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  • Cover image of book John Lennon: Pocket Giants by Robert Webb
    John Lennon: Pocket Giants - by Robert Webb

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780750962339 | ISBN 10: 075096233x

    John Lennon is a giant of popular music and culture. As one-quarter of the Beatles, he was in the vanguard of music, art, fashion and popular culture during the sixties. His music, humour and outspoken calls for peace inspired a generation. He stands ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Your Pride Story? - by Various authors, compiled by Liverpool Pride and Writing on the Wall

    £2.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910580127 | ISBN 10: 1910580120

    Everybody has a story to tell. These are ours... "Liverpool Pride is all about giving a platform for LGBT+ people in our region to demonstrate their unique culture, talent and spirit. The What's Your Pride Story? group write about their experience ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Scallywags: Memories of a Rascal
    The Scallywags: Memories of a Rascal's 1950's Childhood - by Peter Stockley

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786060167 | ISBN 10: 1786060167

    Do you ever think about how the roads you walked as a child change the doors that open in your future?   In 1951, seven-year-old Peter Stockley's life was set down a dark path after losing his mother. Her legacy to him was an optimism and spirit t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Film Stars Don
    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - by Peter Turner

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509818211 | ISBN 10: 1509818219

    On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hillsborough: The Truth (Updated edition) by Phil Scraton
    Hillsborough: The Truth (Updated edition) - by Phil Scraton

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910948019 | ISBN 10: 1910948012

    This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words by Mike Nicholson
    The Hillsborough Disaster: In Their Own Words - by Mike Nicholson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445634869 | ISBN 10: 1445634864

    "Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turned against them in their hour of need. The power of print media was at its absolute peak at that time, ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Story by Steven Gerrard
    My Story - by Steven Gerrard

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781405924412 | ISBN 10: 1405924411

    Steven Gerrard - legendary captain of Liverpool and England - tells the story of the highs and lows of a twenty-year career at the top of English and world football.  As the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £25.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472908537 | ISBN 10: 1472908538

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mental Health and Me: 2015 by Various authors
    Mental Health and Me: 2015 - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580097 | ISBN 10: 1910580090

    A collection of writing, including letters, journalism, short stories, diary entries, blog posts, poems, tweets and spoken word - all winners of a competition run by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and Writing on the Wall, to celebrate World Menta ... more

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  • Cover image of book What
    What's Your Granby Story? - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580073 | ISBN 10: 1910580074

    "These memories of Granby Street chronicle the passion and importance of Liverpool's diverse cultural heritage. From stories of poverty, hardship, displacement and isolation, to those of entrepreneurialism, settlement and community, the overall tone ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rolling Stonemason: An Autobiography by Fred Bower
    Rolling Stonemason: An Autobiography - by Fred Bower

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780850366242 | ISBN 10: 0850366240

    Annotated and with an Introduction by Ron Noon and Sam Davies   Fred Bower had a full adventurous life and wrote about it in his own vivid and racy idiom. He was born in Boston, Mass. in 1871.   Brought up in Liverpool, he recalls a ci ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beating Berlusconi! by John Graham Davies
    Beating Berlusconi! - by John Graham Davies

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780953182619 | ISBN 10: 0953182614

    Despite threats from his wife, in May 2005 Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a football fan and a Liverpudlian: the 1981 riots, the Thatcher years, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Your Average Muslim by Zia Chaudhry
    Just Your Average Muslim - by Zia Chaudhry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780722481 | ISBN 10: 1780722486

    This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else.  A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their per ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mental Health and Me: 2014 by Various authors
    Mental Health and Me: 2014 - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910580011 | ISBN 10: 1910580015

    A collection of writing, including letters, journalism, short stories, diary entries, blog posts, poems, tweets and spoken word - all winners of a competition run by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and Writing on the Wall, to celebrate World Menta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer by Alan Huffman
    Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer - by Alan Huffman

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781611855685 | ISBN 10: 1611855683

    "I don’t think I fully understood how brave my good friend Tim Hetherington was until reading these pages. Not only does Huffman bring Tim back to life — his brilliant work, his extraordinary vision — but he also leads us through some of the most har ... more

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  • Cover image of book Buoyant on the Blackstuff: (Me, Marathons, Maggie and Merseyside) (1982-1992) by Tony Peacock
    Buoyant on the Blackstuff: (Me, Marathons, Maggie and Merseyside) (1982-1992) - by Tony Peacock

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781291659504 | ISBN 10: 1291659501

    ‘An involvement in running marathons is unhealthy; physically, mentally, socially and too many other alleys to go into.'   Set mainly in and around Merseyside between 1982 and 1992, this is the story of one man’s journey from disillusioned football ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mid-Term Report by Phil Redmond
    Mid-Term Report - by Phil Redmond

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099569169 | ISBN 10: 0099569167

    A masterclass in media studies from the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Described in Parliament as 'excellent' by Ed Vaizey, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport   GRANGE HILL  Swi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool by Dietmar Hamann
    The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool - by Dietmar Hamann

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780755362813 | ISBN 10: 0755362810

    A warm and highly entertaining account of Dietmar Hamman's personal story, The Didi Man was a Sunday Times bestseller on hardback publication.   Dietmar 'Didi' Hamann is a complete one-off. The foreigner with a Scouse accent. The German who n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Captain, Titanic & Me by Rose
    The Captain, Titanic & Me - by Rose

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780957145443 | ISBN 10: 0957145446

    Read about life in 1898 through to 1912.   Amazing facts about life and times here in 17 Marine Crescent Waterloo.   Many historical events took place whilst living in this house, my research has uncovered information never before linke ... more

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  • Cover image of book Merseyside
    Merseyside's Own - by Christine Dawe

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752462189 | ISBN 10: 0752462180

    Merseyside has been the birthplace or home to literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women. In this book Christine Dawe features a great many of them – from all eras and all walks of life.   Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skywriting by Word of Mouth by John Lennon
    Skywriting by Word of Mouth - by John Lennon

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561262 | ISBN 10: 0099561263

    Autobiography, excerpts of fantastical fiction and musings on the break-up of the Beatles and the pressures of celebrity. A delight for fans of John Lennon.   Witn an afterword by Yoko Ono and original illustrations by the author.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Heart Within Me Burns: From Bedlam to Benidorm by Crissy Rock
    This Heart Within Me Burns: From Bedlam to Benidorm - by Crissy Rock

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781843587538 | ISBN 10: 184358753x

    Best known for her role in cult comedy TV hit Benidorm and for playing Maggie Conlon in Ken Loach's remarkable film Ladybird Ladybird, Crissy Rock is a hugely popular actress and comedienne. But Crissy's path to success was far from easy and her life ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Spectacle of Dust: The Autobiography by Pete Postlethwaite
    A Spectacle of Dust: The Autobiography - by Pete Postlethwaite

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780220031 | ISBN 10: 1780220030

    After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for te ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Liverpool Home by Kenny Dalglish
    My Liverpool Home - by Kenny Dalglish

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444704204 | ISBN 10: 1444704206

    Kenny Dalglish's relationship with Liverpool Football Club is one of the great love stories of sport. From the moment he first set foot in the Anfield dressing-room as a starry-eyed teenager, nervously asking for autographs while having a trial at th ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Portrait of Battling Bessie: Life and Work of Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool MP by D. Ben Rees
    A Portrait of Battling Bessie: Life and Work of Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool MP - by D. Ben Rees

    £5.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780957063105 | ISBN 10: 0957063105

    Dr D Ben Rees has brought to life the powerful and well-known Bessie Braddock who made politics attractive for 50 years on Merseyside.  She inherited from her mother, Mary Bamber, a Scot, her socialism and strengthened her determination to ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy and Me: A Pyrenean Adventure by Steve Taylor
    The Boy and Me: A Pyrenean Adventure - by Steve Taylor

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848766631 | ISBN 10: 1848766637

    The Boy and Me is a no holds barred account of a father and son’s extraordinary walk as they struggle and muddle their way through a perilous distance trek with an edge...   June 2006. Steve and his son, Michael, set out on a journey that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
    Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain - by Piers Dudgeon

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755317165 | ISBN 10: 0755317165

    Our Liverpool is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart.  Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palm Oil and Small Chop by John Goble
    Palm Oil and Small Chop - by John Goble

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849950114 | ISBN 10: 1849950113

    Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa – it is complex, an acquired taste and reckoned to be rather unhealthy. Small chop is the addition of ingredients that make it palatable for European taste. From the unique perspective of working aboard mer ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams by Jeff Pearce
    A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams - by Jeff Pearce

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241951071 | ISBN 10: 0241951070

    The poor boy who made his fortune...not just once but twice.  Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle
    Stalin Ate My Homework - by Alexei Sayle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340919590 | ISBN 10: 0340919590

    Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end. His family ate salad. They read the Soviet Weekly. They travelled on transcontinental trains, and in the back of futuristic limousines. They saw Communism in action and ate s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great Liverpudlians: A Fascinating Journey Through the City
    Great Liverpudlians: A Fascinating Journey Through the City's History and the People Who Made It - by David Charters

    £8.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781874181705 | ISBN 10: 1874181705

    This is a Liverpool history with a difference. Packed with information, this lively book is not only about events but about people – our Great Liverpudlians – and the part they each played in shaping the city. There are many familiar faces, of course ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hammered by Mark Ward
    Hammered - by Mark Ward

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843582724 | ISBN 10: 1843582724

    Mark Ward enjoyed all the trappings of success as one of the most popular and highly-rated right wingers in football. 'Wardy' proved an overnight sensation at Oldham and continued to be a star at West Ham, Man City and Everton before inspiring Birmin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Margi: Now You See Me by Margi Clarke
    Margi: Now You See Me - by Margi Clarke

    £16.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906802523 | ISBN 10: 1906802521

    From working with the enigmatic Tony Wilson at Granada in 1978, to starring in one of the greatest independent films of all time, Letter To Brezhnev, in 1985, readers are invited to hitch a ride on a road movie with Margaret Bernadette Clarke.   T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool
    Liverpool's Children in the Second World War - by Pamela Russell

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752451589 | ISBN 10: 0752451588

    This is the untold story of Liverpool's children in the Second World War. Whilst everyone is familiar with the tales of evacuees who were rushed out of the cities once the bombs started falling, many of us are unaware that many stayed behind, either ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carra: My Autobiography by Jamie Carragher
    Carra: My Autobiography - by Jamie Carragher

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780552157421 | ISBN 10: 0552157422

    For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing ‘we all dream of a team of Carraghers’. The club’s vice-captain, longest-serving player and one of a select band of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint by Christopher Routledge
    Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint - by Christopher Routledge

    £24.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311505 | ISBN 10: 1846311500

    The story of Cain's, like the story of Liverpool, is one of passion, ambition and graft. It takes in immigration, global trade, terrible poverty and vast wealth.   In just two generations the Cain family went from the slums of Irish Liverpool ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool by Nicholas Murray
    So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool - by Nicholas Murray

    £12.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311284 | ISBN 10: 1846311284

    In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood by Paul Barber
    Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood - by Paul Barber

    £12.00   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751539127 | ISBN 10: 0751539120

    After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of children’s and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of adults more interested in their own welfare than providing a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mothers of the City: Twenty Outstanding Liverpool Women by Mike Kelly
    Mothers of the City: Twenty Outstanding Liverpool Women - by Mike Kelly

    £11.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780955485466 | ISBN 10: 0955485460

    Renowned Liverpool author Mike Kelly has extensively researched this work, which celebrates such luminaries as Ethel Austin, Agnes Jones, Josephine Butler, Bessie Braddock and Margaret Kelly (Miss Bluebell). ... more

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  • Cover image of book Catch Me Before I Fall by Rosie Childs
    Catch Me Before I Fall - by Rosie Childs

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780753512203 | ISBN 10: 0753512203

    When Rosie Childs was born, as Clare Malone, her life was immediately different to those around her - she was a black child in an all-white family and on an all-white Liverpool council, estate in the 1950s, and therefore living proof of her mother's ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love There That
    The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison - by Dale C. Allison, Jr

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826419170 | ISBN 10: 0826419178

    From his days as the "quiet Beatle" to his successful and critically admired solo career, George Harrison produced a memorable body of music. His songs "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are two of the Beatles' best, and beginning with his remarkab ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool
    Liverpool's Irish Connection - by Michael Kelly

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955485404 | ISBN 10: 0955485401

    Liverpool's Irish Connection is a fascinating collection of Liverpool-Irish biographies. The book includes chapters dedicated to Nurse Agnes Jones, Michael James Whitty, James Muspratt, Percy French, Patrick (Dandy Pat) Byrne and James William Carlin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Said and Done: The Autobiography by Roger McGough
    Said and Done: The Autobiography - by Roger McGough

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099478751 | ISBN 10: 0099478757

    Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, whose humour, distinctive voice, and sharp eye for the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, have made him a household name both as a poet and a broadcaster.  1967 saw not only the publication of The Mer ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am Somewhere Else: Gospel Reflections from an Emerging Church by Barbara Glasson
    I Am Somewhere Else: Gospel Reflections from an Emerging Church - by Barbara Glasson

    £17.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780232525977 | ISBN 10: 0232525978

    "Faith, like life, begins as a gift not a doctrine. I move, I breathe, I see, I relate, I love."�I Am Somewhere Else presents a spirituality arising from the experience of an unusual and innovative ministry in the centre of Liverpool. Barbara Glass ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ricky by Ricky Tomlinson
    Ricky - by Ricky Tomlinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751534030 | ISBN 10: 075153403x

    Famous as the loveable couch potato Jim Royle of The Royle Family, Ricky Tomlinson has launched a thousand one-liners and entertained millions without ever leaving his armchair. Now, in his bestselling autobiography, he surprises yet again with ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mersey Voices by Diana Pulson
    Mersey Voices - by Diana Pulson

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780752418353 | ISBN 10: 0752418351

    Personal memories of ordinary people give us a unique and powerful view of life in the past.  This collection of reminiscences of Merseyside people was selected by Diana Pulson from the many interviews recorded by produced Ev Draper for a series ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times of Edward Rushton by Bill Hunter
    Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times of Edward Rushton - by Bill Hunter

    £6.00   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780954207700 | ISBN 10: 095420770x

    Edward Rushton was undoubtedly a heroic figure who should be given a place in Liverpool's history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery, who at the age of nineteen became blind.  He wrote poetr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goodison Park Voices: Recollections of Supporters by David Paul
    Goodison Park Voices: Recollections of Supporters - by David Paul

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780752415482 | ISBN 10: 0752415484

    As one of the greatest clubs in the country, Everton FC has a past its fans can be proud of. This book collects the memories of those supporters, both young and old. It is not a complete history of the club, but a rich assortment of anecdotes as tol ... more

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