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Phil Harrison

Discover the rock-bottom moments in the histories of 19 disparate football clubs, through stories rich in colour and context that rarely have a happy ending – but which every fan can relate to.By Phil Harrison, author of the critically acclaimed Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania – as featured by The Guardian and Daily Mail.Showcasing a miscellany of spectacularly diverse stories from the last five ...

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Wilkie Collins

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Luke Harrison, Murray Melvin, Phil Reynolds

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Wilkie Collins Supernatural Stories

From the pen of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, comes a collection of lesser known, yet equally magnificent Supernatural Stories! Volume Two features A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED (read by Luke Harrison), MRS ZANT AND THE GHOST (read by Murray Melvin) and BLOW UP THE BRIG (read by Phil Reynolds). Be prepared to be terrified and entertained as Wilkie Collins’s disturbing tales of ghosts, deadly visions and family curses come to life in this fantastic new collection from Fantom Films. Directe...

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Phil Harrison

Inside the Hermit Kingdom charts the history of Albanian football from 1945 to 1991, when the country was ruled by modern Europe's most brutal and oppressive regime.The book features a chronology of Albanian football history interspersed with iconic games that shaped the nation's favourite sport. It details the matchday experience in Stalinist Albania, tells the story of a league footballer during the regime years and charts the growth of street football i...

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Phil Harrison

“Fully engaging, well-written, very imaginative . . . A wonderful debut.” — Irish Times“When you read a novel cover to cover in one day, you know it’s something exceptional.” — John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped PajamasOutside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection both intellectual and erotic. When Anna falls pregnant, the ...

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Phil Harrison

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Gerard Doyle

Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible waysOutside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna becomes pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but ...

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Chris Wraight, Peter McLean, Josh Reynolds, Steve Lyons, Rachel Harrison, Robbie MacNiven, Phil Kelly, Gav Thorpe, Matt Smith, Guy Haley, Graham McNeill

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Warhammer 40,000

A Warhammer 40,000 anthologyMany are the noble warriors of the 41st Millennium, and many more still are the vile warlords daemonic, alien and treacherous who stand against them. In this action-packed anthology, you will find tales of battle to defend the Imperium, and to destroy it.READ IT BECAUSEExplore the grim darkness of the far future in a dozen tales that will take you across sun-baked deserts and into daemon-haunted cities wi...

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Harry Harrison

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Phil Chenevert

It was a big, coffin-shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped it through the door of the police station and started away. I looked up from the blotter and shouted at the trucker's vanishing back."What the hell is that?""How should I know?" he said as he swung up into the cab. "I just deliver, I don't X-ray 'em. It came on the morning rocket from earth is all I know." He gunned the truck more than he had to and threw up a billowing c...

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Harry Harrison

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Phil Gigante

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Stainless Steel Rat

In this prequel to the Stainless Steel Rat, Slippery Jim is a brash 17-year-old who has left his parents' porcuswine farm, planning to embark on a life of crime. The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal.Deciding that the Bishop should be his mentor, Jim sets about proving himself worthy of the master's attention. He eventually has to flee his home planet of Bit O' Heaven wit...

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Harry Harrison

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Phil Gigante

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Stainless Steel Rat

This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment—liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator. With his lovely but lethal wife Angelina and his two stalwart sons, James and Bolivar, diGriz pits ballots against bullets in the fight for freedom. He's vowed to restore truth, justice, and democracy to the world of Paraiso-Aqui, if he has to lie, cheat, and steal to do it!"The Rat can hold his head high amongst the most elevated superhero co...

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Jack London, Harry Harrison

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Tom Crawford, Phil Chenevert

"The Misplaced Battleship" by Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012):Embark on an interstellar voyage through this captivating audiobook. Join Lieutenant Renn and his motley crew in a spacefaring adventure filled with witty humor, unexpected twists, and thrilling battles. With immersive narration that brings every character to life, "The Misplaced Battleship" transports you to a galaxy where humor and heroics reign supreme. Get ready for an exhilarating journey through the cosmos that will k...

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Harry Harrison

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Phil Gigante

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Stainless Steel Rat

Imperetrix Von Kaiser-Czarski is the richest man in the universe, and someone is systematically robbing all of his banks. He decides that the best course of action is to set a thief to catch a thief, and the best thief of them all is one Slippery Jim diGriz. Sceptical at first, Jim is soon won over by the promise of four million credits a day, plus expenses. Jim and Angelina enlist the help of their twin sons, James and Bolivar, and James' computers soon find the common link between all of...

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Harrison Geillor

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Phil Gigante

The town of Lake Woebegotton, MN is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living! Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets in order to survive an onslaught of the dead."This is the second best fictional novel about a real-life Minnesota town ever written."— Vore Gidal, autho...