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The remarkable history of a landmark London building and it's role in giving young women a safe base in the teeming city as The Theatre Girls Club of Soho.Author: Catherine HowePublisher: APS...

A Dangerous SolitudeAuthor: Colin MardellPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date: 45672Number of Pages: 308 pagesBinding: FictionISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9798230886143

Aberford, a sleepy village on the Great North Road has a primary school with an extraordinary history arising from land ownership by the trustees of Oriel College, Oxford. In exploring the history of...

Stourbridge's artists, writers, musicians and athletes demand that the inhumanity of dropping bombs on Syrian children stops right now. The authors and poets featured in this book have given their...

Mark Skirving's first school report aged 5 years and 4 months -Mark has great potential and produces some excellent work, especially in creative writing. An outstanding boy who must be destined to do...

Meet David Cartier, a self-made genius who dreams of playing viola for the London Symphony Orchestra, as much as anything to spite his disinterested older sister who is Leader of that august body. It...

The career of Burning Spear - the Rastafarian roots reggae singer otherwise known as Winston RodneyAuthor: Eric DoumercPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date: Oct 29, 2023Number of Pages: 88...

When Buster eats his Grandma's Christmas Cake, it's the final straw - he's banished to live with his Mum, Kitty, a teacher in an English boarding school.A fateful meeting with a school bully turns...

March 1903 in rural New Zealand a police officer arrives at the scene of an accident.What he finds will change the world forever.Political rivalry, super power conflicts and the battle for naval...

I'll turn into f.... Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying...

Wanda Pierpoint has written an eclectic collection of poems reflecting upon family, relationships, nature and the endearing power of dogs.Author: Wanda PierpointPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date:...

Sixteen year old Callie Crossan is a harvester, left on Earth and forced to support those who fled to EarthMoon. When her illegal relationship with Ben Rhea is discovered, to avoid punishment they...

Macbeth de-mystified!Descent into Darkness charts a war hero's troubled journey into evil after encountering three demonic witches who activate darkly 'Vaulting ambition', leading him to an...

First book of brilliant verse from the Black Country frontman of King Pleasure & The Biscuit BoysAuthor: Mark SkirvingPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date: Sep 26, 2024Number of Pages: 94...

Whitechapel 1888The anatomy of a bloody murderer...Thirteen year old Thomas Edilstein has ample grounds to seek revenge on any number of his former neighbours in the East End of London, holding them...

Whether it's a short or long storyThere should always be a beginning, a middle and an endThat's what I was told at schoolAnd that's what I taught my pupils later onBut now I realiseThat lifeComes and...

A young Russian Jewish writer finds three postcards on the street, each with a single word written on them, and later he finds the author of those same postcards, a depressive young woman whom he...

A relationship is a numbers' game.Sometimes positive, sometimes negative, Some multiply, some divide, Mainly odd, rarely even.Life is a magic trick.It comes and then it goes, And no-one knows the...

Hill climbing on two wheels powered only by a human body pushed to its limits - a sport which for people like Richard Burt becomes over time an obsession in which personal effort and achievement are...

After being imprisoned and tortured for 72 days because of his writing and political views, a Chinese dissident turned short-story writer makes his way out of China through the mountains, stops in...

This book tells the story of Sutton Coldfield between 1800 and 1914. With a focus on the struggles to bring to an end the self-appointed corporation, the arrival of the railway, shops, schools, law...

Author: Felicity HarleyPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date: Jan 16, 2025Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: NAISBN-13: 9798230404439

Time may be running out for the universe Although time actually means nothing to the two Zendors who merely wish to use the earth as a tourist attraction but it is, nevertheless, time that they did...

Dub poetry from Birmingham performance artist Kokumo Noxid.Author: Kokumo NoxidPublisher: APS BooksPublication Date: Jun 17, 2022Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Sophocles, the Greek Dramatist, who lived from 497-406 BC, was one of the great dramatists of all time and his tragedy, Oedipus Rex among the greatest of plays ever written but Sophocles had the...

His pregnant girlfriend wants him back but there could be a myriad reasons for him to disappear - not least because someone from his past in Ireland seems to want to destroy his life. Who is he...

Born and raised in Jamaica, schooled with Bob Marley, emigrated to Birmingham, club-owner and music promoter, father of twelve...what a life and Lloyd George Blake describes it in wonderful...

Thirty years in Italy ago a two year old boy and his English nanny went missing and have never been found. Can a newly formed Missing Person's Agency crack such a cold case?Author: Jw DarcyPublisher:...

Lyrics spanning the last forty years or so, covering many aspects of life and uses of the imagination. They range over a wide list of topics from a haunting thumbnail biography of the French poet,...

Captain W.E. Johns worked tirelessly to establish James Bigglesworth DSO, MC, as the eminent British airman of the twentieth century instead of which he should have focussed on the one man who truly...