Biography

Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchy: Essays on Colin Ward

edited by Andrew Kelly

Colin Ward was known as the ‘gentle anarchist’. Through his immense work over many decades on towns and cities, transport, the theory and pr …

Available (Published: October 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434227

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Willie Hopkin: D.H. Lawrence’s Socialist Friend

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Willie Hopkin (1862-1951) was a poet, philosopher, social reformer, local historian and humorist. He was a life-long friend and mentor of D. …

Available (Published: September 2024)
ISBN: 9781915434210

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Lawrence’s Muse: Jessie Chambers Wood through her own writing

edited by Clive Leivers

Haggs Farm, the surrounding landscape and the Chambers family, especially Jessie, provided the models for much of D.H. Lawrence’s early writ …

Available (Published: July 2023)
ISBN: 9781915434081

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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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The World is in Our Words

by Chris Searle

‘Pick up The World is in Our Words and be enthused by energy unbounded, going in several directions at once. [Chris Searle’s] life is a chal …

Available (Published: November 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170915

£12.99

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Don’t Mention the Night

by David Belbin

Writing about Nick Drake leads seventeen-year-old David to Nottingham, where, in the late 1970s, he encounters the formidable singer/songwri …

Available (Published: October 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170960

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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

£5.00

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Isaac and I: A Life in Poetry

by Chris Searle

Isaac and I is the autobiography of Chris Searle, who braces his own story with the life of his greatest influence, East London poet Isaac R …

Available (Published: January 2022)
ISBN: 9781910170809

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Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s

by Sylvia Riley

Reprinting November 2021 Winter at the Bookshop was a raw, warm, cold experience. Raw with chapped fingers clutching kettles of boiling wate …

Reprinting (Originally published: December 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170663

£7.99

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Sneinton People

by Dave Ablitt

This is Sneinton, inner city Nottingham, in the 1980s – a selection of interviews that first appeared in Sneinton Magazine. The interviews r …

Available (Published: September 2019)
ISBN: 9781910170670

£5.00

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