It is the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Rabbi Howell of Sheffield United, the first Romany to play for England, knows his career is peaking and the only way is down. His fate seems to be a return to obscurity, literally and metaphorically, back down the pit, his life ruled by the winding wheel and the domestic pattern set by his wife, Selina, her parents and family. He then meets Ada and risks throwing away career, home – everything. Follow Rab, Selina, Ada and The United throu...

Joseph Mather was one of the greatest Sheffielders in history. His was the voice of the common person in the turbulent, revolutionary times of the late 18th century. He composed his songs to the rhythm of his hammer as he worked as a file-cutter. Then hollered them out in the streets and pubs of Sheffield on a Saturday night. This was the 18th century jukebox, karaoke and alternative comedy.This edition adds to the last published version of 1862, with previously unpublished songs an...

This is a book of poems soaked in the spirit of Sheffield through and through, then and now, by Michael Glover, a Sheffielder by birth, and author of the bestselling 111 Places in Sheffield That You Shouldn't Miss.It listens in to local talk, watches how local folk booze and goster, frolic, caper, saunter around, let their hair down or get it done specially for Saturday night out on the town, or just sit back in Millhouses Park in the sun, gently doing nowt much at all. Take a sip....

A collection of short stories by new and established authors all with a war theme: how it affects people and changes lives. Stories to make you smile, to make you cry, to give you hope and to make you think. Every penny of author royalties will go to the work of War Child in supporting the most marginalised and vulnerable children and young people in conflict-affected parts of the world.The collection started life as a short story "conversation" between two of the writers: e-mailing...

A collection of the world's oldest football (soccer) stories. Stories include some first published in 1908 in a book called Twenty Five Football Stories which contained 14 association football and 11 rugby union stories.The collection features an early PG Wodehouse story, The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett and four new historical fiction stories inspired by the early history of the game.The stories provide huge insights into the early development of the game and ...

A contemporary political thriller based on the ridiculous notion of what might happen if a left-wing, Labour leader was resurgent despite all the attempts by the media to discredit him. What if, as an election approached, he started to gain traction because of a serious downturn in the economy, unrest in the country and corruption revealed at the highest levels? What if the electorate started seeing him as an answer to their problems? How would the right and big business react?Findi...

There are some steamy romantic scenes amidst the romantic drama in this romance novel about Frank Taylor from northern England who meets Karen, becomes enamored and eventually marries. Post-marriage, the two have a son, Mark and take their work, rest and play seriously. Their son grows into manhood, sets off in search of adventure and returns broken hearted; the aging couple set to task to get Mark back on his feet but a bout of bad luck results in their missing grand-daughter for a few ye...

Joseph Gales was one of the all-time great Sheffielders – forget Joe Cocker, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean or Michael Palin. These are all minnows compared to Joseph Gales – and their stories are boring besides that of the Galeses. The Galeses story has been forgotten and has not been brought together in one place before – it is not just something dredged up from history – an irrelevant dusty skeleton. What they tried to do for freedom of the press, and for free speech – principles for whi...

There are some steamy romantic scenes amidst the romantic drama in this romance novel about Frank Taylor from northern England who meets Karen, becomes enamored and eventually marries. Post-marriage, the two have a son, Mark and take their work, rest and play seriously. Their son grows into manhood, sets off in search of adventure and returns broken hearted; the aging couple set to task to get Mark back on his feet but a bout of bad luck results in their missing grand-daughter for a few ye...

Isabella's shadow had been growing larger and larger. Suddenly, it lunged out of the ground and swallowed her, like a python does its unsuspecting prey.King Mortuus seeks to unlock an ancient prophesy and unleash dark forces of Sceadu on our world – he is just missing the final element: four child sacrifices. Then, Isabella, her brother, Emilio and their cousins cross over into the land of shadow, following discovery of a long-forgotten book written by an old explorer whos...

In this poignant sequel to Headlong into Pennilessness, Sheffield-born Michael Glover, poet and art critic, re-visits the scenes of his childhood and teenage years in and around Fir Vale.He remembers the death of the Sunbeam Cinema, and how it disappeared in a pother of brick dust. He sees again the tramps from the tramps' ward, hurrying down Herries Road in pursuit of a warm sleeping spot in the Reference Room of Firth Park Library. He watches his mother at her exasperating daily r...

The Book of Extremities is a unique piece of writing: a dark, haunting tale that will make you question the nature of fiction. It is a sequence of numbered texts, conceived and written in the house of a priest without a name, in the tiny hamlet of Géay, forty minutes south of La Rochelle, in France. It purports to be a collection of fragments of the priest's writing – a set of anguished emotional outpourings – each one written on a separate piece of paper, organised as well as the author w...