In Nazi-occupied Copenhagen, a humble cricket scorer becomes a symbol of defiance.The Batmaker of Copenhagen tells the inspiring story of Frederick, a cricket enthusiast who risks everything to keep the spirit of the game alive. Under the watchful eye of the Gestapo, led by the ruthless 'Lucifer,' Frederick embarks on a perilous quest to craft cricket bats, sourcing scarce willow to defy the oppressors.Hounded by spies and fueled by unwavering patr...

A Corner of Every Foreign Field is an innovative and thought-provoking take on the history of cricket, looking beyond the scorecards to the pivotal issues of class, politics and imperialism that have shaped the game today. Author Tim Brooks skilfully delves into the past while providing a unique vision for the future of cricket.

The gripping story of an Edwardian hero who fights for the glory of his country on the Western Front only to have his world torn apart.From Tim Brooks, author of the critically acclaimed cricket novel The Batmaker of Copenhagen.Set across Oxford, Cornwall, the Western Front and the Aegean, this sweeping historical drama:? Follows the journey of a cricketing prodigy with the world at his feet, who leaves university to defend all he holds dea...

An E-Ticket for EducationThe last thing your kid, whether teen or tween, wants to do in Walt Disney World is learn. Have fun, sure. Learn? Never! But just like every ride and show has its Hidden Mickeys, every Disney vacation has hidden opportunities for your kids to take on some new skills.Tim Brooks' unique guide to Disney World posits a simple truth: your kids want to be involved in planning their trip to see Mickey. So let them. Budgeting and simple economics can be tau...

From sun-kissed olive groves to frosty pine glades, cricket is played in every corner of continental Europe. But the game is fragile at its frontiers, struggling for profile and participants on a football-obsessed continent. Cricket on the Continent reflects on how the sport was exported, introduced, and developed in mainland Europe, and the challenges it faced (and continues to face). It examines what lies in store in an uncertain future, casts a critical eye at the role of the I...

 The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form.This book traces the often overlooked hist...

AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in one convenient volume. It’s a guide you’ll turn to again and again for information on every series ever telecast. There are ent...

Stories creep through Scrying Hollow—whispers of a great beast. Come dusk, the first howl catches the wind and rustles the trees. Make haste, for it's no wolf bounding through the Hollow. The Hound comes for you.Liliwen, the eldest daughter of the Valet family, knows the tales well. You see, her father was the first to die to the Hound. Seven years later, heartbreak threatens again when Liliwen's brother is ambushed by the beast. Eviscerated and barely alive, her b...

I had big plans when I returned home to my small town, but they didn't include a retired hot-shot hockey player getting in my way.The last person I wanted to fix up my historic dream home with was the handsome older man with money to burn who bought it right out from under me. Thanks to my father, that's exactly what happened.Colton Crawford was making my house a home, and I was back in my childhood room, trying not to think of the towering, gorgeous Adonis...

A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed ‘Mister Whisper,’ earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow’s Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.And what he did.When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack...

From humble folk instrument to American icon, the story of the guitar is told in this "exceptionally well-written" memoir by the NPR commentator ( Guitar Player).In this blend of personal memoir and cultural history, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes narrates the long and winding history of the guitar in the United States as he recounts his own quest to build the perfect instrument.Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountai...

‘Lebbon is quite simply the most exciting new name in horror for years.’ – SFX MagazineTHE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT HAS CHANGED FOREVERTHE REASON IS COLDBROOKThe facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing....