Liverpool: It All Came Tumbling Down by Freddy O'Connor - £14.95
Liverpool's very name conjures up a multitude of images in most people's minds: her extraordinary entrepreneurs and philanthropists the many famous actors and comedians born there; the music of the Merseybeat era which had the whole world dancing and ... more
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Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge by Diane Frost and Peter North - £14.99
In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories. Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain, elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In ... more
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A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill by David Sekers - £9.99
In 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the centre of his cotton empire in the industrial heart of England. It was a man's world, in which women like Hannah were barred ... more
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The Hurricane Port: A Social History of Liverpool by Andrew Lees - £8.99
Scousers believe they live in a special place, one that has more in common with Salvador da Bahia, New Orleans or Gdansk than anywhere in England, and the city has always punched above its weight. In less than a hundred years, however, Liverpool's im ... more
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Liverpool 2013 Wallpaper* City Guide by Wallpaper* - £6.95
Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city.   Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings i ... more
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The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson - £12.99
Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit – a message from the underworld to snitches, cops and rival gangs.   One mile a ... more
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The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool by Dietmar Hamann - £8.99
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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Making the Grade by Stan Osborne - £9.99
This is a wonderfully evocative, witty, thought-provoking and gritty trip down Memory Lane - one that every Evertonian and 'nearly-but-didn't-quite-make-it' footballer will adore.   Stan Osborne's debut book captures a very special era in foot ... more
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Mid-Term Report by Phil Redmond - £18.99
GRANGE HILL Swimming pool disasters. Drugs, and just say ‘no’. Flying sausages. School like you’d never seen it before.   BROOKSIDE Lesbian kisses. Bodies under patios. Exploding shops. Suburban life like you’d never seen it before.  ... more
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Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono by Lisa Carver - £12.99
John Lennon once described her as “the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Many people are aware of her art, and her music has always split crowds, from her caterwauling earliest work to her ... more
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The North by John Bulmer - £19.99
John Bulmer was one of the leading photojournalists in the 1960s and 70s and was a major contributor to The Sunday Times Magazine. Over the course of a decade, he made a number of assignments to the North of England to document the decline of the old ... more
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The Captain, Titanic & Me by Rose - £9.99
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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The Liverpool Book of Days by Steven Horton - £9.99
Discover the colourful history of Liverpool with this collection of tales from across the city.   Featuring a story for every day of the year, it includes famous historical events, such as the opening of the city’s first dock, the abolition of ... more
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Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones - £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 TS ELIOT PRIZE  Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2012  In Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones returns to familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity and maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she ... more
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Murderers or Martyrs by George Skelly, Foreword by Lord Goldsmith - £19.95
A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice.  Charged with the “Cranborne Road murder” of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a c ... more
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The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon - £25.00
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate.   He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen ... more
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Liverpool Ghost Signs: A Sideways Look at the City's Advertising History by Caroline and Phil Bunford - £12.99
Take a photographic journey into Liverpool’s often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear ... more
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The Beatles in Liverpool: From Merseybeat to Stardom by Spencer Leigh - £14.95
The story of The Beatles and their native city is one of Rock 'n' Roll's most colourful legends. Even so, until now it has usually been a story patchily told. The Beatles in Liverpool, a companion title to The Beatles in Hamburg, now recreates the au ... more
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Still Standing: The Savage Years by Paul O'Grady - £20.00
Paul O'Grady shot to fame via his brilliant comic creation, the blonde bombsite Lily Savage. In the first two parts of his bestselling and critically acclaimed autobiography, Paul took us through his childhood in Birkenhead to his first, teetering st ... more
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"Up Then Brave Women" Manchester's Radical Women 1819-1918 by Michael Herbert - £7.95
"A heroine, a young married woman of our party, with her face all bloody, her hair streaming about her, her bonnet hanging by the string, and her apron weighted with stones, kept her assailant at bay until she fell backwards and was near being taken; ... more
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Scouse: A Social and Cultural History by Tony Crowley - £16.99
Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool’s linguistic past have scarcely done jus ... more
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The Beatles: The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies - £10.99
There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since.   During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the pea ... more
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The Beatles Graphic by Hervé Bourhis - £16.95
Hervé Bourhis, creator of The Little Book of Rock, turns his unique graphic talents to the legend of The Beatles, told from the very beginning.   Bourhis' visual imagination illuminates the individual lives of each band member from their pre- ... more
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Please, Miss: The True Story of a Trainee Teacher in 1960s Liverpool by Bernadette Robinson - £6.99
Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she ... more
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Merseyside War Years: Then & Now by Daniel K. Longman - £12.99
With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler’s most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what ... more
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Liverpool Blitzed by Neil Holmes - £19.99
The Liverpool of early September 1939 was a thriving port and bustling city of over 800,000 people. World War Two changed this forever. Between the 27th June 1940 and the I0th January 1942 Hitler’s Luftwaffe rained down death and destruction on the c ... more
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In the Footsteps of Giants by Liverpool City Council and Royal de Luxe - £9.99
In April 2012, Liverpool came to a standstill when three giants transfixed hundreds of thousands of people with a story of love, loss and family which unfolded before their very eyes. Hailed as the most successful event ever to be staged in the city, ... more
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Merseyside Blitzed by Neil Holmes - £19.99
Like Liverpool the faces of Wallasey, Birkenhead and especially Bootle were dramatically altered by the raids. Today’s generation have little to remind them of the scars that the Luftwaffe left. By comparing the wartime image to the modern viewpoint ... more
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Liverpool The Great City by Paul McMullin with Mike McNamee - £16.99
Liverpool The Great City showcases the resurgence of the port as a tourist, leisure, shopping and educational place. Visitors to the city arrive curious about the birthplace of the Mersey Sound, the home of the Beatles, the old staging post to the Ne ... more
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Once Upon a Liverpool by Maria Saunderson - £5.99
"Once Upon A Liverpool tells the story of The Beatles simply, through hand stitched embroideries. It is suitable for all ages, babies and toddlers will love spotting Rigby the little submarine. Older children and adults will enjoy seeing iconic momen ... more
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The Liverpool Miscellany (3rd Edition) by Leo Moynihan - £9.99
The fully revised and updated 2012 edition of The Liverpool Miscellany is essential reading for fans in the red half of Merseyside.  Written by respected football journalist Leo Moynihan, a lifelong Liverpool fan, this goldmine of information ... more
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The Everton Miscellany (3rd edition) by Mark O'Brien - £9.99
The fully revised and updated 2012 edition of The Everton Miscellany is essential reading for fans in the blue half of Liverpool.  Written by lifelong Everton devotee Mark O'Brien, editor of the popular fanzine When Skies Are Grey, this goldm ... more
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Forgotten Lancashire and Parts of Cheshire & the Wirral by Dr Derek J. Ripley - £9.99
Lancashire.  Say the word and it conjures up images of cotton mills, coal mines and the Co-Operative Movement. But think again.  This if Forgotten Lancashire, the home of Uncle Bill's Meat-Free Meatballs, fridge magnets and the Compet ... more
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The Unexpected Guest: Art, Writing and Thinking on Hospitality by Sally Tallant and Paul Domela (Editors), with a text by Lorenzo Fusi - £18.95
Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, and a metaphor encompassing issues of the body, territory, politics, ecology, commerce and the hosting of data. It is the point where hostility becomes friendship, ... more
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Lost Tribe: The People's Memories by Ken Rogers - £9.99
The best-selling Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road book encouraged thousands of people to retrace their roots into the heart of one of Liverpool's most famous and historic inner city districts.  The publication commanded four reprints and ... more
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Liverpool's Children in the 1950s by Pamela Russell - £12.99
Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, game ... more
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Sit Down! Listen to This! The Roger Eagle Story by Bill Sykes - £18.95
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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Penrose: Princess of Penrith by J. Rapilliard - £9.99
In the bleak landscape of the Lake District and the Scottish Borders, Penrose fights for survival, revenge and her inheritance.   J. Rapilliard works in further education in Liverpool. His main interest, apart from writing, is history and archaeo ... more
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Matron on Call by Joan Woodcock - £6.99
Matron on Call does for the north of England what Gilda O'Neill and Jennifer Worth did for the East End.  Joan Woodcock always dreamed of becoming a nurse. And in 1966 the dream came true. From her very first day as a naive sixteen-year-old ... more
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Liverpool Docks Through Time by Ian Collard - £14.99
The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverp ... more
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Birkenhead Through Time by Ian Collard - £14.99
Although its first inhabitants were medieval monks, Birkenhead began to grow during the nineteenth century because of its links with Liverpool. Later, trade from all over the world began to flow through the docks and the town became a centre for ship ... more
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North Wales Pleasure Steamers by Andrew Gladwell - £14.99
Pleasure steamer cruises along the scenic North Wales coast from Liverpool disappeared some fifty years ago. The outstanding beauty of North Wales and in particular the Menai Straits and Anglesey, was in its day, one of the most outstanding and sceni ... more
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The Midwife’s Here! by Linda Fairley - £6.99
‘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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Merseyside's Own by Christine Dawe - £12.99
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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The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles - £20.00
The international best-seller is now in paperback!   From their years growing up in Liverpool through their ride to fame to their ultimate breakup, heres the inside story. Interwoven with The Beatles own memories are the recollections of such ... more
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Aftermath by Pat Fearon - £7.95
“Aftermath” concerns two naïve teenagers, aged eighteen in 1939 who are thrust into one brief sexual experience by fear of a random German bomber. Their individual embarrassment, guilt and self-disgust drives them apart, him to enlistment and eventu ... more
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Liverpool Landing Stage Through Time by Ian Collard - £14.99
The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years. It is the city’s equivalent to the Sydney O ... more
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The Beatles: Stories Behind the Songs by Steve Turner - £14.99
There was rich praise for the original edition of The Beatles: Stories Behind the Songs including Steve Matteo in The Music Paper describing it as 'One of the most readable and illuminating books ever written about The Beatles' and in his autobiograp ... more
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The Cameo Conspiracy: A Shocking True Story of Murder and Injustice by George Skelly - £19.50
The true story of Liverpool’s Cameo Cinema murders vividly demonstrates the need to guard against police corruption and legal manipulation.  George Kelly was hanged in 1950 for shooting dead two men early in 1949: the manager of the Cameo ... more
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Skywriting by Word of Mouth by John Lennon - £9.99
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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Liverpool Then and Now by Mike Royden - £14.99
Liverpool Then and Now takes the reader on a journey through a city once considered the ‘second city of empire’.   So great was the volume of commerce flowing through the port of Liverpool in the nineteenth century that it sometimes eclipsed ... more
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