Fascinating look at the highs, lows and riches that follow promotion to the Premier League, from the inaugural 1992/93 season to 2023/24 told with special insight from chairmen, managers, players and fans. From the author of the widely acclaimed Fields of Dreams and Broken Fences. Dubbed the most valuable single football match in the world, the Championship play-off final doesn't just secure a place in the illustrious Premier League. It offers lucrative financial rewards. This compelling b...

In the electrifying third novel of the Empire of Shadows trilogy, Jack Mercer is drawn into a final, devastating confrontation with the hidden powers that have manipulated nations, financed covert wars, and trafficked in forbidden secrets since the ashes of World War II. What began as a hunt through ledgers, lies, and Cold War betrayals now leads to a chilling revelation: a clandestine brotherhood of elites seeking not merely power, but escape from death itself. Pursued across Europe's hau...

In the haunted aftermath of World War II, Jack Mercer—an ex-OSS operative rebuilt under a false identity—uncovers fragments of a ledger that tie Vatican financiers, Cold War intelligence services, and Ustaše war criminals to a hidden network born in the ashes of Jasenovac. His hunt for the truth drags him from the Dolomites to the fog-soaked alleys of Venice, across Adriatic monasteries, and deep beneath the Vatican itself, where a rogue cardinal and a dying intelligence service wage a sec...

Fields of Dreams and Broken Fences lifts the lid on the little-known world of non-league football. From being hours away from folding in the Essex Senior League and turning semi-professional because of YouTube to dropping out of the Football League and trying to find a way back, this book shines a vital spotlight on clubs from various levels of the National League System and shares their stories. The tales include the dramatic null-and-void decision of the 2019/20 season, Chichester City m...

Part lampoon, part satire, and part surreal comedy, A WEF of Cabbage is a razor-sharp send-up of current events and the figures who dominate them. Here, statesmen return from the grave to lecture tech billionaires, NATO generals are distracted by golf clubs shaped like vegetables, and the World Economic Forum's glossy promises collapse under the weight of absurd reality.At once a parody of geopolitics and a playful jab at the culture of control, this novel transforms recognizable h...

The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a quantitative analysis of all OMB decisions and settlements from 2000 through 2006, as we...

The only thing better than having something goodis having it twice as much.Noah, a mischievous young boy, and his orderly brother, Pete, have a tumultuous relationship. It seems that every moment of their young lives is filled with anger, arguments, and scuffles. Amid the fighting, Noah discovers a plan to win all their arguments without breaking the rules of the household. His young mind turns out a plan that will warm your heart, make you laugh, and fill you with a desire...

Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks to remedy this imbalance by examining over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen from 1937 to 1945, the period of total war in Asia and the Pacific. As he describes conflicts that have often been overl...

This edited volume assembles a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan's foremost intellectuals, translated for the first time into English.It begins with an introduction by the editors, Seth Jacobowitz and Aaron William Moore, that contextualizes Hirabayashi's significance as a non-doctrinaire Marxist cultural critic, visionary thinker, and much-beloved popular fiction writer. The 'Short Stories', features a selection of Hiraba...

When you're heartbroken, it lies beneath everything that you do. It's in all of who you are. Foreshadows who you'll be.It hides underneath your smile, rests between your laugh, revels in your tears and taunts your every thought. You wish it away but are too terrified to let it go . . .When Cal first disappeared I swore my heart had broken, and before all of this is over I swear it will shatter into pieces.

Lauren Brooks fell in love with Cal Scott at twenty-one, married him at twenty-two, and had her heart broken at twenty-three when he walked out of their marriage. At twenty-five, while raising their daughter on her own, Lauren is finally moving on with her life . . . until she learns the reason for Cal's abandonment. The walls she had carefully built around her begin to collapse.The day she meets Chris, all those feelings she thinks she has bottled up tightly come spilling out. She...

Camming is her little secret…Between the small town she can’t escape and the life she wishes to live, Candace has found an outlet in the digital world. In front of the camera, Candy can escape the pressures of her family’s bakery and play at life on her own terms. Freedom has never been so sweet.He just wants someone to take control…Miles’s life has become increasingly chaotic. Returning to the hometown he hasn’t seen in over a decade, he’s caught between family angs...