This book examines, for the first time, how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today.It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, an award-winning journalist, Sunday Times best-selling author and Anfield regular for 60 years, the majority spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the highs and lows of Britain's most successful football club.Reade traces the Kop's history bac...

Sick Mick is the laugh-out-loud funny, debut satirical novel from acclaimed journalist Brian Reade.A much-loved member of the Royal Family sinks into a coma after being struck on the head by a stray pergola beam at the Chelsea Flower Show.Two hundred miles away in Liverpool, as Britain reels and the national media goes into morbid overdrive, comedian Mick O’Shea cracks a series of gags at the Royal’s expense. In the face of hyped-up public outrage, Mick fin...

Sick Mick is the laugh-out-loud funny, debut satirical novel from acclaimed journalist Brian Reade.A much-loved member of the Royal Family sinks into a coma after being struck on the head by a stray pergola beam at the Chelsea Flower Show.Two hundred miles away in Liverpool, as Britain reels and the national media goes into morbid overdrive, comedian Mick O'Shea cracks a series of gags at the Royal's expense. In the face of hyped-u...

The years between 1850 and 1900 were the vintage years of a discreet homosexual culture in England. In this period, educational, personal and foreign influences all contributed to the establishment of a trend expressed in the works of authors such as John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and A.E. Housman, and in those of lesser writers, now largely forgotten. This book, first published in 1970, is an anthology of English prose and verse, either homosexual in tone or providing a vehicle for...

AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It is the tale of a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through the High Court and almost into administration.Players Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher tell of their anger at the broken promises, as well as their pain at watching loyal fans in open re...

There have been football books which have told their tale through the partisan heart of a besotted fan, and those that have dissected their subject through the scientific mind of an objective writer. But rarely does one fuse the blind passion of a lifelong supporter with the cold eye of an award-winning journalist in the way 44 Years With The Same Bird does.That bird is the Liver Bird, and on the surface this book is a pitch-side view of the entire modern era of Britain's ...

This book examines, for the first time, how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today.It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, an award-winning journalist, Sunday Times best-selling author and Anfield regular for 60 years, the majority spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the highs and lows of Britain's most successful football club.Reade traces the Kop's history bac...

Contents: The Decay of Lying Pen, Pencil And Poison The Critic As Artist The Truth of Masks

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Matthew Arnold, the archetypal sage writer, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Arnold's life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological an...

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, ...

This collection includes: Shorter ProsePieces, A Critic in Pall Masll, Essays and Lectures, Intentions, The Soul of Man, Miscellanies, Reviews, and Selected Prose. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his i...

In "Literary Character of Men of Genius," Isaac Disraeli delves into the intricate nexus between literary creativity and the character of its architects. Through a series of probing essays, Disraeli examines the biographies and dispositions of renowned authors, revealing how their personal idiosyncrasies and societal contexts shape their literary outputs. His style is marked by eloquence and insightful analysis, enhancing our understanding of the interplay between personality and creativit...