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Blackpool and the Fylde During WW1
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2018
52 kr
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Blackpool was the Royal Army Medical Corps base during WW1, with 10,000 RAMC personnel in the town. When war broke out on August 4th 1914 the holiday season in the popular holiday resort was in full swing…and then the soldiers began arriving. First the regional regiments to train on the wide …
Tragedy of the Ocean Monarch
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2021
47 kr
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In the middle of the 19th century an unsettled Europe was being drained of emigrants dreaming of a new and better life in the New World. The packet ship Ocean Monarch was carrying nearly 400 of these passengers and crew on its return voyage to Boston from Liverpool on August 24th 1848. While still …
Cissie Loftus. Versatile Music Hall Entertainer and Actress
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2022
33 kr
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Taken largely from contemporary newspapers, this is a biography of Music Hall star Cissie (Cecilia) Loftus, whose career also spanned the serious stage, movies and radio, first successfully bursting onto the sage at the young age of 17. Much loved in her time but now mostly a forgotten name, she …
Masterpiece
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
11 kr
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When Ercolina, a music teacher, finds out that her husband Nigel has been cheating on her, she needs to regain his attentions, and hopes she has a found a way of doing so when he asks her to compose his own personal music for the industrial awards ceremony, in which he is being presented for his …
Identikit
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
11 kr
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Cheryl has come through a particularly difficult divorce, and now is left only with the practical difficulties of bringing up her children alone. She is quietly drinking a cup of coffee in the security of her home, when the worst of her fears is presented to her, right before her eyes. Any …
Last Orders at Waterloo
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
19 kr
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Dave wins the regular, monthly drinking contest in the pub for the first time, and is then considered among the elite of the hardened drinkers. Barely able to stand up, he meets Iggy, a former winner of the contest, and they go on to a military fancy dress party where there is no 'last orders'. …
Proud Black and White Speckled Hen
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
19 kr
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The proud black and white speckled hen was different to all the other hens in the farmyard. She had black and white feathers,and all the others hens had brown ones. She considered that being different meant being better and, when an opportunity arose where she thought she could demonstrate that …
Four Ringtones of the Apocalypse
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
18 kr
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Cedric couldn't be blamed for enjoying his personal success and he also couldn't be blamed for taking his eye off reality in the indulgence of this success.
Yer Main Ingerland Man
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
19 kr
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When Chas goes to see Santa Claus to ask him why he has taken back all the presents from every house worldwide, he is surprised to find that he is offered the dream job of Ingerland national football team manager, in answer to his drunken, postal request.He returns home to a hero's welcome as all …
L for Louisa
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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A routine ride home on the underground metro provided Wilfred Truebody with both dreams and nightmares. He was a different man when he got off at his usual stop, and expecting to get home for tea.
In Heaven's Glorious Bosom
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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The social worlds represented by Dog Merdo and the Crumpsall-Dandys are in direct contrast, the one to the other. Such is the great rift valley of contempt between the two, that they can only ever meet on equal terms in death. The Crumpsall-Dandys lead a rich and privileged life, while Dog Merdo …
Coming Clean
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
18 kr
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Breezy McCready's habitual weekly visit to the launderette on the high street did not go to plan for the first time ever. However, from out of the depths of despair, a new opportunity arose to make him ten times the man that, for a lifetime, he never thought he ever could be.
Myra Thorndyke's Very Last Affair
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
19 kr
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A straightforward anecdote about the imminent closure of a care home for the elderly, which had been founded by the indomitable Myra Thorndyke. Old age and its frequent accompanying states of dementia and diminishing ability of judgement, is both sad and humorous at the same time. Myra's difficult, …
Man O' The Woods
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
9 kr
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Bram Trimp and his son, Bradley set off on an expedition to a remote part of a forested and mountainous terrain to bring back pictures and video of the Man o' the Woods, a fabled creature, who had for centuries, eluded hard evidence of the proof of its existence.Their sophisticated network of …
Skipdoll: Springtime with Primulas
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2013
47 kr
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Jade Marie lives on a farm with her mother and father. Tom, the farmhand, is the only other, almost permanent, person who is usually around. She is in her last year at school, and the future doesn't hold much hope for her. Relationships have become increasingly strained, and her father, especially, …
Bad Day for an Urban Sasquatch
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2016
19 kr
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Herman, having recently been made redundant, is being fussily groomed by his wife as she perfects the state of his suit he is obliged to wear for a job interview that morning. He is used to wearing overalls for work, and being generally casual or careless in his ordinary, everyday, dress sense.To …
Queue for the Bog
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
11 kr
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Nathan is recently divorced and his life has taken a downturn. He is not a desperate man however,philosophically taking anything that is thrown at him, and is forever curious about the human condition. In his short time at the museum, where he can marvel at the extent of past, human survival, he is …
Last Words of a Good Man
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2015
11 kr
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Dez is a social alien living on the outside of convention, and has no care for the world about him. Silas lives rigidly within the system and regards it his duty to give assistance to those who have fallen foul of convention, generally through no fault of their own. They only ever meet once, when …
Lion and the Cheesegrater
Av Colin Reed
E-bok, 2014
11 kr
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The title is based on the classic line from Aristophanes, Lysistrata. In the needs of relationship and partnership, Ottilia is confident about what she wants, but Hayley and her husband Trent, in their own particular ways, are not. Hayley and Trent have grown apart and both have been easily …
Merchants of Power
The History of Corporate Geopolitics
Av Colin Reed, Lewis Sage-Passant
Inbunden, 2027
408 kr
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How businesses have shaped global affairs, from the Renaissance to the present.Corporations can outlive empires, accumulate more wealth than nations and project power with more persistence than armies. Kings and continents have bent to their will, and wars and coups have been launched at their …
Pastors, Partners and Paternalists
African Church Leaders and Western Missionaries in the Anglican Church in Kenya, 1850-1900
Av Colin Reed
Inbunden, 1997
2287 kr
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A study tracing the relationships between missionaries and African Church workers in Kenya in the years 1850-1900, as missionaries increasingly adopted imperial assumptions of Western superiority.It tells the story of the first Anglican clergy in Kenya, their wives and colleagues; their rescue from …
Cissie Loftus. Versatile Music Hall Entertainer and Actress
Av Colin Reed
Häftad, 2022
258 kr
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Conception, Construction and Opening of the Tower at Blackpool 1890-1894
Av Colin Reed
Häftad, 2025
199 kr
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