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Soldiers by Frederick Turner Two sides. One struggle.Abdul and Darren grow up in the same industrial backwater, each with his own set of problems. For one of them it's racism and the misery of displacement, for the other, it's life on welfare with a mother prone to manic depression. Their paths converge in one charged moment during boyhood and seem unlikely to cross again. But time can pull all kinds of tricks. Battered by their respective upb...

Sequel to The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place, The Last Sane Man On Earth is an acerbically funny critique of post-Brexit Britain and the social media age, through the eyes of one of modern fiction's great outsiders.Two years on from the life-changing events of The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place, misanthropic anti-hero Gary Lennon is back.With a girlfriend, a new therapist and a slightly less unfulfilling job, Gary is trying to get his act ...

THURSO … the further north, the better…Rob is running from a drab life and a loveless marriage, on a reckless bender from pub to distillery. David, in a feverish flight across the Highlands, is running from his disturbed and disturbing recent past. And young Alistair wants desperately to run before his abusive father locks him up in his room for good. Their paths are destined to cross… but whose life will be changed forever?With echoes of John...

When Tom Wilkins started writing a book about his life, he thought he'd be writing about fun stuff, like birdwatching or messing about in the woods. Not finding his grandad dead, his mother going mad, or his increasing obsession with the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.He's been spending so much time with mad people he's starting to fear he might be going a bit mad himself.Set in Horsforth, Leeds in 1980, Tom Tit and the Maniacs tells the story ...

A dead author dictates his novel to a friend. A loser in love tries plastic surgery. A boy comes home early to discover his father's infidelity.A born-again Christian takes a lesson from Chairman Mao. A drug addict's dead parents come to visit. A have-a-go hero becomes an internet villain.A murderer's dad counts his blessings. And the dead find themselves on a very slow train journey.Amusing and ironic, scary and sad. Just half a dozen of a sc...

When does passion turn to love? When does responsibility mean guilt? When does a death become a murder?In A Bad Winter these hefty questions stir up echoes through time, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, to create an intimate and powerful tale of personal lives in freefall. With her trademark pictorial prose and beautifully phrased metaphors, novelist Samantha Priestley has created a ghostly romance set among wintry Derbyshire h...

The compelling conclusion of the scintillating Leeds 6 trilogy and a stand-alone story, Speed Bomb is a street thriller that runs at a breathless pace. Colourful characters, colourful language and black humour fill the pages as we pick up the trail with Hamed on special operations in the Philippines before returning to Leeds to resolve one or two 'issues'. Of the previous books in the trilogy, James Brown (editor of Sabotage Times) described H...

A funky encyclopaedia of Leeds and its achievements.A compendium of interesting facts about Leeds.

The second entry in the Leeds 6 trilogy, Blowback is the stand-alone sequel to Hot Knife - another caper packed with colourful characters, colourful language and black humour. Russ Litten (author of Scream if You Want to Go Faster) described Hot Knife as a 'bruised and tender account of lives lived on a knife edge'. Now, Blowback takes us to a place even sharper and edgier.Thriller, organised crime, Yorkshire/Leeds Noir, guns, drugs, terror, U...

We lived life closer to the sun than most. Sometimes we got blinded by it. We lived the high life. By day, we worked on the top floor of One City Square, by night, the top floors of clubs. Then back to bed at our penthouses."Neal Grace, Carl Sharp and Adam Warshawski are A-list. They're young, handsome and rich. They go to all the best parties. Women want to bed them, men want their phone numbers. They are the face of brash, post-millennium Le...

The new novel by Birkenhead-born Nathan O'Hagan, author of The World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place, turns the temperature down to absolute zero in a thriller that stalks the darkest corners of the male psyche.On the streets of Liverpool, three lives - a young skateboarder, a steroid-crazed bodybuilder and a family man with a dark, troubled profession - are about to overlap in a dance of frustration, humiliation and murder.This noir journey throug...

In 1984 areas of Britain resembled a police state. Simon and Lindy, 'lovers against the bomb', are peace activists drawn into the yearlong miners' strike. For them it is a time of fear, laughter, homemade wine, and home grown dope. A world of collection buckets and button badges, peace camps and picket lines, Labour Party meetings and non-violent direct action workshops. It's a time of constant opposition to the state and self discovery. Throu...

360 AD: A woman buries the remains of her husband in a stone sarcophagus in Northern Roman Britain.1207: A man in desperate need of money plans a new street to be called Briggate1645: A girl named Alice Musgrave of Vicar Lane is the first victim when the plague strikes Leeds.1850: A heartbroken woman walks down a set of steps into the River Aire.1963: Two young men, fired by the new music, wait to see the Beatles at the Queen's HallThese and m...

Alan Siddall, a young 68-year-old Black Sabbath fan who wears shades from dusk till dawn, has outstayed his welcome at his local Mental Health Unit. He's about to be shipped off to Willowbeck Gardens to see out the rest of his troubled days. But when he bumps into Cassandra, "the one that got away" years ago before his disastrous marriage to Babs, Alan refuses to go gently into residential care. He wants Cassandra back.At the heart of this ang...

I have developed a detachment from the rest of the human race. I don't fear them. I don't consider myself above them. It's just that I genuinely loathe them. There is no reason. I wasn't abused as a child. There were no traumatic events in adolescence, no heartbreak or rejection in early adulthood. Nothing to account for the person I have become. I shall offer no explanation, no mitigation for what I am. But whatever the reason, I have come ad...

The Memoirs Of A Punk Romantic:BOYS IN MAKE-UP - PUNK - FOOTBALL - CHILDHOOD - BOWIE - MAD NUNS - GIRLS - LIFE - HOT WHEELS - LEEDS - CROSS COUNTRY - VIOLENCE - SEX - THE '70s - DISAPPEARING GIRL - ADOLESCENCE - MY DEATH

West Riding iconoclast' John Lake turns his focus on Southern middle class mores in his new novel Amy and the Fox, set against the background of Cameron's rise as Opposition Leader. When schoolteacher Amy Trent's journalist husband Colin dies in a freak accident, his brother Max finds a mysterious videotape that Colin had kept hidden away. He must now keep it from Amy - but she knows of its existence. Before she is ready to watch what is on th...

How many of us really understand the weather other than just to moan about the rain and cold and plan to take sunny days off? Olivia does.She wants her dad to notice her but he's too busy cheating on his wife, pretending he's not the father of a disabled child, and chasing anything in a skirt to prove it. So Liv does what any teenager would do. Something remarkable to make him sit up and notice.But will he see it in time to make a difference? ...

Featuring the novella Breaking Even and six short stories.Daryl Chancellor, Chance to his friends, lives for the roll of dice and turn of card. When he finds himself down on his luck and owing money to a man who brooks no compromise, he makes one last play - smuggling drugs from the Caribbean. Jacked on his way from the airport, he is given two days to retrieve the goods, his only lead, his best friend.A femme fatale, a bagman who collects sev...

At 7.30am on Wednesday 21st November 2007, six members of Leeds CID arrived at author Mick McCann's house and arrested him and his wife. The house was searched around the children preparing for school, and 14 items were removed. Taken to the Bridewell, the suspects were photographed, fingerprinted and DNA extracted before being released on bail. Neither had a police record, not so much as a parking ticket. They were arrested under 'suspicion o...