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Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner: Revised Edition

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In this revised edition, the introduction has been augmented with new information on Bailey from Karen Winyard, with thanks also to the Nott …

Available (Published: October 2025)
ISBN: 9781915434371

£5.00

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Elegy for a Lost Bookshop: Nottingham’s Sisson & Parker in the 1970s

by Rod Madocks

A tender, irreverent memoir about Rod Madocks’ time as a staff member of one of Nottingham’s most famous bookshops—Sisson & Parker—a for …

Available (Published: January 2023)
ISBN: 9781915434012

£4.00

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Don’t Blame the Blacks

by George Powe

Don’t Blame the Blacks was written by George Powe in 1958, at a time of race riots in Nottingham, and Notting Hill in London. At the time th …

Available (Published: June 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170984

£3.00

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Feminism Before the First Wave

by Zoe Fairbairns

“I have no quarrel with the use of waves as a metaphor for feminism. On the contrary – waves and feminism have a lot in common. Waves are po …

Available (Published: May 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170946

£3.00

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The Long Piece

by Alan Sillitoe

“I was born in 1928, on March 4th, under the sign of Pisces, in the front bedroom of a red-bricked council house on the further outskirts of …

Available (Published: March 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170939

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500 Years of Struggle: A People’s History of Nottingham

by The Nottingham Communist Party (1949)

500 Years of Struggle – a people’s history of Nottingham was published in 1949 and sold for threepence. This pamphlet is not without anachro …

Available (Published: March 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170762

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The Fear of Being Seen as White Losers – White working-class masculinities and the killing of Stephen Lawrence

by David Jackson

Using the police surveillance video transcript and the Martin Bashir interview with the suspects on Tonight, David Jackson interprets how th …

Available (Published: February 2018)
ISBN: 9781910170540

£6.00

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The Mask of Anarchy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jeremy Corbyn brought Shelley’s classic political poem back into the public eye when he quoted the final stanza during the 2017 General Elec …

Available (Published: July 2017)
ISBN: 9781910170489

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Mad John’s Walk

by John Gallas

In the autumn of 2016, poet John Gallas decided to follow the route taken by John Clare when he escaped from Matthew Allen’s High Beach Asyl …

Reprinting (Originally published: June 2017)
ISBN: 9781910170410

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Street Haunting: A London Adventure; Bulwell & A Name Loosely Attached

by Stanley Middleton, Virginia Woolf

‘Street Haunting’ describes “…the greatest pleasure of town life in winter – rambling the streets of London.” A cascade of brief impressio …

Available (Published: June 2017)
ISBN: 9781910170427

£4.00

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