The Second World War was one of the most turbulent periods for British football. It was an era when clubs struggled to find men to fill their eleven threadbare shirts, players laid down their lives for their country in combat, and those who remained behind performed remarkable feats. Stoke Citys Tommy Sale scored 56 goals in one season, while international star Neil Franklin regularly cycled back to his RAF base in blackout after midnight. Amidst Citys uncouth and foul-mouthed players, Lol...

Supporting Stoke City FC is never dull. Fans emotions are tested with increasing frequency at both ends of the spectrum. Since 1970, Stoke have won several promotions, graced Wembley, qualified for European competition, and acquired a swanky new ground. Conversely, they have suffered relegations, Cup final and semi-final defeats, and on two occasions the near financial ruin of the club. Such is the roller-coaster ride that is the fate of Stoke City and its supporters. Stoke City: The Modern E...

Stoke City Football Club has been blessed with innumerable talented players, including legends likes Stanley Matthews, Gordon Banks, Freddie Steele, and Neil Franklin. But Stoke City: 101 Golden Greats is not only about these footballing colossi. Featuring players from 1870 to 2001, it recounts the story of the Football Club through the eyes of those who made it happen most. The players. Recounting each player's career, Stoke City: 101 Golden Greats reveals many behind-the-scenes secrets f...

The World is at War, again. New technology has been abandoned, a period of Great Regression is under way.In suburbia, low level Agent Assassins Maria and Marco Fandanelli are given a surprise promotion as “Things Aren’t Going Too Well With The War”. Leaving their son Peter behind, they set sail on the luxury cruise-liner Water Lily City, hoping an important mission might save their careers and their marriage.Dilapidated and derelict, Panbury Hall is not what...

The World is at War, again. New technology has been abandoned, a period of Great Regression is under way.In suburbia, low level Agent Assassins Maria and Marco Fandanelli are given a surprise promotion as "Things Aren't Going Too Well With The War". Leaving their son Peter behind, they set sail on the luxury cruise-liner Water Lily City, hoping an important mission might save their careers and their marriage.Dilapidated and derelict, Panbury Hall is not wha...

A REAL-LIFE CLOSE ENCOUNTER THAT CANADA COULD NOT EXPLAIN.On September 1, 1974, farmer Edwin Fuhr was harvesting his field near Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when he made a discovery that would shake him to his core — and baffle investigators for decades.Five metallic, dome-shaped objects hovered just above the ground, spinning silently in perfect formation. The crops swirled beneath them. The air hummed with an energy he could not describe. Then, in an instant...

SPECTERS OF THE EAST COAST: A Dossier of Haunted HotelsCheck in for the night. You might never sleep alone again.From the fog-drenched shores of Cape May to the bullet-scarred brickwork of Gettysburg, the American East Coast is home to some of the nation's most historic—and haunted—lodgings. SPECTERS OF THE EAST COAST is not just a collection of campfire tales; it is a chilling, carefully researched dossier of ten hotels where the ...

Something is on the road with you.Every culture that has ever built a road has eventually built a ghost to walk it. But what happens when the ghost shows up in the data?Phantom Lanes: Unsolved Mysteries of the Open Road is not a book of ghost stories. It is an investigation — the first of its kind to examine road-based paranormal phenomena not as folklore, but as a convergence of geophysical science, automotive engineering, and human physiology.

The Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe: A 300-Year Mystery of Myth, Murder, and Empire By Simon C. LoweA cursed Tudor manor. A broken promise. A 300-year-old ghost story—shattered by modern science.For over a century and a half, Bettiscombe Manor in the quiet hills of Dorset has harbored a dark, macabre relic: a human skull that refuses to be buried. According to local legend, the skull belonged to an enslaved Black man brought...

Does the unknown still walk among us?From the desolate steppes of Mongolia to the fog-shrouded moors of England, the world is far less mapped than we dare to believe. Behind every local legend and "tall tale" lies a kernel of truth—a biological anomaly, a survivor of a prehistoric age, or a visitor from a place we cannot yet name.SHADOWS IN THE MARGINS is an investigative A-Z dossier that peels back the veil on the world's most elusive crea...

Your phone is not the problem. The way it was designed to control you is.The average adult spends over 6 hours a day on screens outside of work. Not by choice — by design. Every app on your device was built by teams of engineers and behavioural psychologists with a single goal: to keep you engaged for as long as possible. Your attention is the product. And it's being sold by the second.Digital Minimalism: Reclaim 3 Hours a Day from Your Phone is no...

Some objects do not just exist. They wait.From a supposedly demonically possessed doll to a surrealist painting that drives its viewers to the brink of madness, humanity has long been captivated by things that seem to harbor a dark, inexplicable energy. But what happens when you strip away the campfire ghost stories and examine the cold, hard facts?In The Malediction Files: A Factual Investigation into the World's Most Malevolent Objects, researche...