That Title from a Better Man I Stole (R.L. Stevenson)

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Our catalogue includes all kinds of literature from Autobiography to Zoological studies. Below are brief descriptions of recent titles that are recommended and which are available to purchase now.

Novels and Children’s Literature

In 1981, a worker is made redundant from a ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent and emigrates to the Soviet Union. Despite falling on hard times and becoming a hermit in the mountains, he holds the key to the search for a notorious serial killer. Hairy Potter and the Poisoner of Azerbaijan is a rip-roaring thriller set in the Caucasus region.

A young girl dreams of becoming a ballerina so her mother makes her a costume from an old curtain. Her inspiring quest for recognition unfolds beautifully in the gripping yarn, The Girl with the Dralon Tutu.

Variety is dead and buried they say. Read about its demise in The Decline and Fall of the Hackney Empire.

A man revisits the scenes and adventures of past holidays spent at a Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Minehead Revisited.

Also situated in a holiday resort in Somerset, All Quiet on the Weston Sea Front is about a contemptible little attempt to conscript people into trudging through a landscape of dark mud which stretches as far as the eye can see.

A children’s story set in Denmark, the home of all good fairy stories since Hans Christian Anderson, Alice’s Adventures in Legoland is a heart-warming tale of a little girl’s love for small pieces of coloured plastic.

Golding’s lesser known tale about an office manager responsible for collecting, collating and storing information, The Lord of the Files charts a man’s descent into obsession and madness.

Those who leave school notionally illiterate are all but invisible in modern society so the hero of this story is referred to only by the initials, A.S. Later in life he decides to do something about it but he does not foresee the problems. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Learner is an angry novel about the general failures of the education system. It is a follow-up to the previous best-seller set in the school’s kitchen, To Stir with Love.

When Aldous Huxley’s ‘The Devil’s of Loudun’, about demonic possession in a convent, was published in 1952, it caused outrage among Roman Catholics. This new novel, The Satanic Nurses, will doubtless be likewise condemned by those who work in The National Health Service and the author may well need to go into hiding.

Other Miscellaneous Titles

Perhaps the most revealing of recent sports biographies, Legless is Gazza tells the story of a footballer’s brave fight to overcome alcoholism.

The Gropes of Wath
An index (with brief descriptions) of prostitutes currently working the streets of an historic Yorkshire town.

A sociological study dealing with overindulgence by the landed gentry in an historical context, Lady Chatterley’s Liver is a book that should be read as a cautionary tale.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Glaxo Smith Klein
A comparison of the effectiveness of various medical pills and potions in the treatment of travel sickness.

Oliver Postgate examines the working practices of The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited in his seminal work, One Day in the Life of Ivor the Engine.

The Davina Code
A Channel 4 book about the fabulous new Reality TV Programme featuring MI5 spies which is hosted by the ever popular TV Presenter, Davina McCall.

An anthropological survey of the increasing preponderance of spitting by sportsmen, Great Expectorations takes a phlegmatic view about the implications for the health of the nation.

Ostensibly a treatise on horticulture, this book instead tells how profits in the farming sector have been squeezed in recent years. Since resigning his commission in The Italian Navy through to becoming the propagator of a new variety of citrus fruit, the author explains in Captain Corelli’s Mandarin why the greed of the retail giants gives him the pip.

A must for anyone seeking to emulate Imelda Marcos, The Last of the Moccasins charts the history of footwear from deerskin wraps to Jimmy Choo.

Gentlemen Prefer Blinds
The New Habitat Catalogue of Home Furnishings.

Will a British tennis player ever win a Wimbledon singles title again? This question is the subject of the fascinating sporting title, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wade?

And a special treat for those interested in historical screenplay material

Trawling through the archives of BBC Radio Wales, a researcher came across the screenplay and script for an episode of Coronation Street which a local poet tried unsuccessfully to sell to Granada TV. The storyline is one where Leonard Swindley organises a charabanc outing to North Wales which ends in disaster for Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell and Martha Longhurst. Entitled Under Milk Stout, we have been granted permission to reproduce it for publication.