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OLYMPIC GOLD RUN (Paperback)
Britain’s Great Bobsleigh Triumph!
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 22 Jan 2010
In February 2010, the world’s Winter Olympic athletes will be summoned to the twenty-first great tournament of sub-arctic endeavour in Vancouver. However, it is now close to half a century ago that Gr ... Read More
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THE BOOK OF OUTRAGEOUS TV GOOFS (Paperback)
"I Had a Good 8 Inches Last Night!"
by Gary Bushell
Publication date: 04 Dec 2009
“The innuendo is one of the basic building blocks of British humour, stretching from humble seaside postcards via the vulgar genius of Benny Hill and the Carry On films to Finbarr Saunders in Viz comi ... Read More
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BILLY HILL (Paperback)
Godfather of London
by Wensley Clarkson
Publication date: 1 Dec 2009
Billy Hill was Britain’s first celebrity gangster. Born in London’s King’s Cross, Hill was a charming character with a deadly edge who elevated himself to the very top of the pantheon of organised cri ... Read More
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THE BOOK OF OUTRAGEOUS ROCK QUOTES (Paperback)
Rock Stars Behaving Badly!
by Paul Goodwin
Publication date: 05 Nov 2009
Be prepared to plant tongue firmly in cheek and suspend disbelief, as our Viking-haired rock warriors from down the ages wax lyrical on subjects as diverse as: sex, drugs, touring, wealth, poverty, dw ... Read More
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1001 REASONS WHY EASTENDERS IS PONY (Paperback)
Gary Bushell’s humourous slant on the long running popular show
by Gary Bushell
Publication date: 03 Nov 2009
Britain’s best-known TV critic has a love/hate relationship with our most loved/ridiculed soap opera. Having never missed an episode, Garry Bushell now brings devotees and detractors alike this hilari ... Read More
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WARRIORS OF THE CAGE (Hardback)
UK’s Mixed Martial Arts Fight Club
by Jonathan Buffong and Brenda Downes
Publication date: 19 Oct 2009
In a number of exclusive interviews with some of its most compelling figures, the personalities, fighters, promoters, medical staff and fans reveal the colourful world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Jon ... Read More
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ANDY FORDHAM - THE VIKING (Hardback)
Throwing for My Life
by Andy Fordham and Humfrey Hunter
Publication date: 02 Oct 2009
But behind the joyous celebrations, all was not well. Andy’s drinking – at least 25 bottles of beer a day – made his weight skyrocket out of control. He weighed 31 stone when he won the world title, a ... Read More
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39 DAYS OF GAZZA (Paperback)
by Steve Pitts
Publication date: 28 Sep 2009
Gazza was the English football icon of the 1990s. His magnificent midfield play provided some of England’s most memorable moments, and he enjoyed a headline-grabbing career with Newcastle Unite ... Read More
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HOOPED DREAMS (Paperback)
Billionaires, QPR and the Premiership Promised Land
by Mick Kelly
Publication date: 3 Sep 2009
Hooped Dreams charts a year at the eye of the hurricane for Championship side Queens Park Rangers FC. After standing on the edge of financial ruin and a decade of depressing headlines about hug ... Read More
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PARENTS WHO KILL (Paperback)
Murderers of Newborn, Pre-teen and Teenage Children
by Carol Anne Davis
Publication date: 23 Jul 2009
In Parents Who Kill, acclaimed crime writer Carol Anne Davis examines the tragic phenomena of infanticide and child murder with an objective yet compassionate eye. Case histories vary from the univers ... Read More
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PERRY BOYS ABROAD (Paperback)
The Ones Who Got Away
by Ian Hough
Publication date: 8 Jun 2009
Over several decades, ever-larger numbers from Britain’s working-class ‘casual’ culture have relocated abroad in search of adventure and opportunity. The results have been mixed: unfortunately, the so ... Read More
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MARTYRDOM (Paperback)
Radicalisation and Terrorist Violence among British Muslims
by Dr Jon Cole and Benjamin Cole
Publication date: 1 Apr 2009
As this historically important work will demonstrate, there is no direct relationship between the religion of Islam and ideologies of terror. Nor is there an automatic correlation between holding radi ... Read More
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PORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN (Paperback)
by Rev. Jonathan Tapsell
Publication date: 1 Apr 2009
Porn-Again Christian is a personal account from the heart of the porn world. This shockingly frank exposé explores all of its greed, lust, violence and salaciousness, its gorgeous models, wild orgies, ... Read More
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KILLER IN THE SHADOWS (Paperback)
The Monstrous Crimes of Robert Napper
by Laurence Alison and Marie Eyre
Publication date: 02 Feb 2009
In December 2008, the Old Bailey bore witness to a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Robert Clive Napper was finally brought to book for the most horrifying unsolved crime of recent times: the July 1992 mur ... Read More
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THE FIRST GUNNERS (Paperback)
Arsenal, From Plumstead to Highbury
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 05 Jan 2009
Since the 1930’s Arsenal FC has been a name ranked amongst the most distinguished in the sport, and the club’s achievements over recent decades have made this great foootball institution a brand name ... Read More
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BLAGGERS INC (Hardback)
Britain’s Biggest Armed Robberies
by Terry Smith
Publication date: 01 Jan 2009
“This type of highly organised criminal trade is best left to the professionals and should be avoided at all cost-as even professionals frequently come unstuck.” – Terry Smith, author and convicted ar ... Read More
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TEDDY BALDOCK (Hardback)
The Pride of Poplar
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 17 Nov 2008
The name Teddy Baldock is enshrined in the record books as Britain’s youngest ever world champion, a pugilist of great historical importance. Born at Poplar on May 20th, 1908, boxing was in his blood, ... Read More
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THE WARS OF ROSIE (Hardback)
Hard Knocks, Endurance, and the ‘George Davis Is Innocent’ Campaign
by Rose Dean-Davis
Publication date: 03 Nov 2008
In the mid-1970s, the legend "GEORGE DAVIS IS INNOCENT – OK" was graffitied all over London’s East End. In the ‘Sweeney’ era of rough justice, the cockney cab driver was convicted of armed r ... Read More
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RED DAWN – (Paperback)
Manchester United, in the beginning: From Newton Heath to League Champions
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 01 Nov 2008
In 1878, the team that would become MUFC had humble beginnings and was formed at a railway depot frequented by Yorkshire and Lancashire rail workers. Brian Belton describes their historic first three ... Read More
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"CASS" - THE MOVIE (Paperback)
The Words and Pictures Behind a Remarkable British Cult Movie
by Jon S. Baird
Publication date: 01 Nov 2008
Writer/director Jon S. Baird’s hard-hitting film debut is a story of one formidable individual, and of modern Britain in the making. Cass Pennant was an abandoned Jamaican boy brought up by an elderly ... Read More
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ANFIELD RISING (Paperback)
Liverpool: The First Decade – From Lancashire League to League Champions
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 01 Oct 2008
In the latest of his historical football chronicles, Brian Belton details the first decade of one of the great success stories of the beautiful game. The author diligently takes his readers back to a ... Read More
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FOOTBALL BABYLON (Paperback)
Entertaining and fast-paced insider’s journey of a fictional premiership club’s first season
by Mel Stein
Publication date: 01 Oct 2008
In over 30 years of operating within the football game, Mel Stein has seen it all. FOOTBALL BABYLON, his first novel, he takes an unflinching look at the typical ups and downs of a newly arrived Premi ... Read More
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WAG DON’T WANNABE (Paperback)
The smart girl’s guide to dating a footballer
by Francesca Amber Sawyer
Publication date: 01 Oct 2008
Thousands of women in the UK dream about living the high life of a WAG (one of the footballers’ wives and girlfriends). They want to be like Coleen McLoughlin, fiancée of Man United and England star ... Read More
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THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE (Paperback)
True Stories to Inspire, Move and Entertain - Told by a Cross-section of the UK's Celebrities and Courageous Everyday People
by Giles Vickers-Jones and Humfrey Hunter
Publication date: 01 Oct 2008
In this unique anthology of more than 80 personal stories, subjects ranging from the frivolous to the deadly serious combine to paint a picture of humanity at its most upbeat. A housewife and mother d ... Read More
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WEST HAM UNITED MISCELLANY (Paperback)
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 15 Sep 2008
Renowned West Ham historian Brian Belton delivers an indispensable collection of hitherto hidden knowledge sure to motivate conversation, settle and start arguments for years to come. Includes: statis ... Read More
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BIRTH OF THE BLUES (Paperback)
Chelsea – The First Decade: From the Rising Sun to the Old Trafford Cup Final
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 01 Sep 2008
The meteoric rise of Chelsea FC is charted by sports historian Brian Belton. From out of the blue, the Pensioners fought their way into the First Division elite and to their first historic Cup Final d ... Read More
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THE QUEENS PARK RANGERS MISCELLANY (Hardback)
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 1 Sep 2008
The Queens Park Rangers Miscellany captures QPR’s ‘blue and white dream’ – the tales, triumphs and travails of London W12’s local heroes. An indispensable collection of facts and trivia that is sure t ... Read More
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YOUTHFUL PREY (Paperback)
Child Predators Who Kill
by Carol Anne Davis
Publication date: 25 Aug 2008
Unflinching yet sensitive, this is a book that needs to be read by all: parents, legal guardians, educators, law enforcement. In bringing her criminological insight to bear on such traumatising crimes ... Read More
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THE E…LIST (Hardback)
Notorious Prison Escapes
by Paul Buck
Publication date: 11 Aug 2008
In the folklore of World War II, the memory of those heroes who staged ‘Great Escapes’ from POW camps still endures. But what of the other side of the coin: the villains and jack-the-lads who painstak ... Read More
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BILLY HILL (Hardback)
Godfather of London
by Wensley Clarkson
Publication date: 1 Jul 2008
Billy Hill was Britain’s first celebrity gangster. Born in London’s King’s Cross, Hill was a charming character with a deadly edge who elevated himself to the very top of the pantheon of organised cri ... Read More
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‘BROWN OUT’ (Hardback)
THE BIOGRAPHY OF WEST HAM CHAIRMAN TERENCE BROWN
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 05 Jan 2008
Terence Brown was a ground-breaking West Ham United chairman. From 1992, he steered the club through fifteen of its most turbulent years and also guided the claret and blue corporation through an era ... Read More
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FOOTBALL "HOOLIGANISM" (Hardback)
POLICING AND THE WAR ON THE ‘ENGLISH DISEASE’
by Dr. Clifford Stott and Dr. Geoff Pearson
Publication date: 06 Dec 2007
Features a large colour photo section The problem of hooliganism among English football supporters abroad has been a major cause for concern for over thirty years. Has the ‘war on hoolig ... Read More
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PARIAH – COLIN STAGG (Hardback)
by Colin Stagg and Ted Hynds
Publication date: 04 Dec 2007
On a July morning in 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was horrifically stabbed and sexually assaulted in broad daylight on Wimbledon Common. In 1994, Colin Stagg, the only man ever to have been charge ... Read More
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‘CHAMPAGNE’ CHARLIE (Hardback)
by Charlie Magri
Publication date: 26 Nov 2007
This is the true story of Charlie Magri, a young man from a tough East London estate who dared to dream of being a champion. He went on to become one of the most popular and respected fighters of his ... Read More
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HOME FANS ONLY! (Paperback)
The Away Supporters Pub Guide
by Martin Kerr
Publication date: 24 Nov 2007
Martin Kerr has compiled a sort of rough guide meets idiots guide for the travelling football supporter who will travel the length and breadth of the country following their club whether it be Chelsea ... Read More
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NATURAL ART OF SEDUCTION, THE (Paperback)
SECRETS OF SUCCESS WITH WOMEN
by Richard La Ruina
Publication date: 13 Nov 2007
There is a system that enables you to attract women and seduce women that you would consider “out of your league”? There is a method that can be applied to any man. There is a learnable process that w ... Read More
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30 YEARS OF HURT (Paperback)
A History of England’s Hooligan Army
by Cass Pennant and Andy Nicholls
Publication date: 08 Nov 2007
A hard-hitting and unflinching look at why just the thought of English football fans abroad is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. ‘The English Disease’ is how English football hooli ... Read More
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SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MISCELLANY (Hardback)
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 14 Sep 2007
On St Andrew’s Day in 1872, Scotland played England in the first-ever football international and the result was a goalless draw. This crucial piece of football trivia is just one of hundreds contained ... Read More
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LEWIS HAMILTON (Hardback)
A dream comes true
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 03 Sep 2007
Features a selected colour photo section Respected sports author Dr Brian Belton takes an in-depth look at the rise of a racing phenomenon and the start of another chapter in the chronicles ... Read More
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THE BRIDGE HOUSE, CANNING TOWN (Hardback)
Memories of a legendary Rock & Roll hangout
by Terence Murphy
Publication date: 28 Jun 2007
The influence of the Bridge House as a seminal rock venue was massive not only in terms of British music history but also the impact it made on some vitally exciting new youth cults, it was a heady ti ... Read More
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THE RYDER LIONS (Paperback)
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 07 Jun 2007
Features a selected photo section This book recalls the tale of those few days when at Lindrick golf club the unthinkable happened and one of the great transatlantic sporting confrontations ... Read More
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DIVIDE OF THE STEEL CITY (Hardback)
Blade Versus Owl
by Steve Cowens and Anthony Cronshaw
Publication date: 23 Apr 2007
In the city of Sheffield its simple you are either red or blue, United or Wednesday, a middle ground does not exist in the Steel City. Why do the two clubs supporters hate each other wit ... Read More
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THE TRUE POMPEY FAN'S MISCELLANY (Hardback)
by John Westwood
Publication date: 30 Mar 2007
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BIG JOE EGAN (Paperback)
‘The toughest white man on the planet’
by Joe Egan
Publication date: 2 Nov 2006
Ireland’s best amateur boxing heavyweight is colourful Dubliner Big Joe Egan who is a former Golden Gloves champion. In a long illustrious career that included fights against eventual world champions ... Read More
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CELTIC SOCCER CREW (Paperback)
by John O’Kane
Publication date: 02 Nov 2006
John O’Kane delivers a gripping tale of a life dedicated to football violence and gives an unparalled insight into the reality of being a career hooligan. With 33 criminal convictions ag ... Read More
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WEST HAM UNITED MISCELLANY (Hardback)
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 7 Sep 2006
Foreword by current Club captain and England international Nigel Reo-Cocker. Renowned West Ham historian Brian Belton delivers an indispensable collection of hitherto hidden knowledge su ... Read More
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BLACK HAMMERS (Hardback)
The Voices of West Ham’s Ebony Heroes
by Brian Belton
Publication date: 07 Sep 2006
When the first ever Black Hammer John Charles took to the field at Upton Park in the early years of Britain’s swinging 60s, it marked both an ending and a proud beginning. Groundbreaker Charles smashe ... Read More
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30 YEARS OF HURT (Hardback)
A History of England’s Hooligan Army
by Cass Pennant and Andy Nicholls
Publication date: 08 Jun 2006
A hard-hitting and unflinching look at why just the thought of English football fans abroad is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.
‘The English Disease’ is how English football hooli ... Read More
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MIG CREW (Paperback)
by Tommy Robinson
Publication date: 5 Jan 2006
From the ironic name, based on the Russian ‘Fighter’ plane-The MIG Crew were always a bit different. Tommy Robinson was never the average hooligan and MIG DOWN charts his 25 year career in foot ... Read More
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BIG JOE EGAN (Hardback)
‘The toughest white man on the planet’
by Joe Egan
Publication date: 10 Dec 2005
Ireland’s best amateur boxing heavyweight is colourful Dubliner Big Joe Egan who is a former Golden Gloves champion. In a long illustrious career that included fights against eventual world champions ... Read More
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