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Flights of Fantasy: An Evocation of Life During and Between Two World Wars
- Location(s): Ramsgate, Liverpool
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW1, WW2, 20th Century
My name is George Munday. I was born on 11 January 1904 in Ramsgate, a thriving fishing port in Kent on the south-east English coast. Dad was a skipper on a wooden, clinker-built fishing smack on which I often...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Liverpool is a city of ghosts. Through the centuries, millions have lived here or come to find a new life, and found safe harbour. More than any other city in Britain its history resonates in the buildings, landscapes and...
- Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1987 onwards
Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...
- Location(s): Colombia, Italy, Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jonas Merrick series. Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear. And their ambition reaches further still. Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine,...
- Location(s): Belfast, Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Out of her depth, a young detective must evade a fatal jab A journalist is found brutally murdered and buried upside down on Crosby beach. Terry Lawler had exposed the secrets of powerful people and apparently got his comeuppance....
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A thrilling page-turner full of wicked twists A body is found, stripped to the waist and stretched out, open arms and open legs across a circular wooden frame, palms and feet nailed to the structure. Investigating, DI Tara Grogan...
Liverpool Forgotten Landscapes, Forgotten Lives
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1500s to 1900s
Forgotten Landscapes… Despite the proud boast of the Liverpudlians of today that there has always been a Liverpool and always will be a Liverpool, the truth is that for many centuries the world got on quite well without us,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Pre WW2
The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen’s personal battle is to...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The search for a missing detective brings simmering rivalries to boiling point… Some five years since parting ways, Detective Eleanor Rose receives a message from Daniel, her ex-boyfriend and former colleague. He is in danger. He needs her help....