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Sid Chaplin was an acclaimed author of novels, essays and short stories, one of the finest writers working in the North in the 20th century. To mark the centenary of his birth in 1916, this new collection of stories, essays and poems features the very best of this work, capturing the culture which created the modern North-East, now lost forever.

Award-winning novelist Julia Darling's classic tale of the search for love, identity and acceptance is funny, poignant and bizarre by turns, as Gert gradually learns that her journey to the future must go via the past.

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London, 2022. As the world struggles in an endless heatwave, nineteen-year-old Luke Spargo believes he alone understands what's really happening to the sun. But Luke's childhood demons are closing in, with the arrival of turbulent Fee, the precarious balance of his life shifts irrevocably, and Luke must pay a terrible price to protect his secrets.

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1944 saw the war drawing to a close with the D-Day landings and the liberation of Rome and Paris. It was the year Danny DeVito, Jerry Springer and Diana Ross were born, that Cluedo was invented and P.A.Y.E was introduced. This was the year the King and Queen took a meal with the miners and band leader Glenn Miller mysteriously disappeared.

In 1996 the EU enforced a ban on British Beef, Oasis sang Dont Look Back in Anger and Never Mind the Buzzcocks made its TV debut. Take That split, Sir Cliff sang in the rain at Wimbledon and Dolly the Sheep was cloned. Football came home in Euro 96 and the popular computer games of Quake and Tomb Raider were launched.

1993 saw Clinton take up office in the Whitehouse and Mr Blobby riding high in the charts. Buckingham Palace opened its doors, MI5 became more open and the EU was established. The Czech Republic and Slovakia separated, Britains railways were privatised and Robbie Coltrane created his brilliant interpretation of Fitz in Jimmy McGoverns Cracker.