Stephen Croft Livres

Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .

When the Cold War ended, it wasn’t just the Berlin Wall that came tumbling down. The lies of half a century risked exposure. Ben, the Winter Archivist, is on their trail. A fool’s errand or the chance of a lifetime?On his sudden death, Catherine is the unexpected heir of his archive. She reconstructs Ben’s past and finds she has bitten off more than she can chew. She must seek the truth that eluded Ben.

One of a series of thematic collections of texts. Each includes general notes on the texts, as well as discussion of themes, issues and context.

Reports on archaeological work undertaken ahead of an improvement scheme centred on Cathedral Square, the historic centre of Peterborough, by Northamptonshire Archaeology, now MOLA Northampton, commissioned by Opportunity Peterborough (Peterborough City Council).

This is a novel about true love in a time of fake news. Stella Kelly retreats to Berlin to rescue her academic career by writing a seminal text. Increasingly and unaccountably anxious, she instead writes her memoir. Stefan Selbst, the iconic German artist, had transformed Stellas life before his death. Now she is afraid and in hiding in Andreas flat. Living in her past, she seeks the comeback that depends on the book she is failing to write.

“Gladys could tell fortunes but it was Harriet who made them.”When Harriet tried her teenage hand at being a ball girl at the local tennis club the day after England won the World Cup, Ian’s wife Betty was intent on winning the doubles trophy. Betty still had time to encourage Ian to take up Harriet’s cause with the club officials who threw her out as unsuitable. Harriet may have had to leave Southport but she was prospering when Ian tracked her down in Whitstable and followed the notorious local trial where Harriet was a star witness. An end of the pier seaside romp where telling the truth is to no one’s advantage.

Can you always trust Kindness? The ghost writer of her autobiography thought so. The government that made her Lady Kindness and its minister thought so too. Kindness definitely believed it, but fact checking left some big questions unanswered. Whatever Kindness believed, it does matter that you are who you say you are.