"44 Years With The Same Bird" offers a unique perspective on Liverpool FC, blending the passion of a devoted fan with the insight of an award-winning journalist. It chronicles the club's triumphs and tragedies from 1965 to 2007, exploring the deep connections football fosters and the resilience it inspires in a struggling city.
Aubrey Beardsley, famous by his early twenties, died aged 25 leaving an immense volume of work behind. This collection provides an opportunity to view Beardsley's mature work. It aims to enable the reader to distinguish between the genuine and the hundreds of spurious pastiches attributed to him.
Accompany Death on his mandatory yearlong sabbatical with these thoughtful, humorous illustrations from Brian Rea--
The inside story of the near collapse of Liverpool FC.
SOMETHING unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed. Suddenly celebrity businessmen, actors, sports stars, singers, even royals seemed irrelevant. The people we were truly in awe of were the low-paid lifesavers, so much so that we stood outside our homes every Thursday to applaud them. As spring turned to summer and the Black Lives Matter movement gathered momentum, action was taken against those from past generations who had been feted, such as Bristol slave trader Edward Colston whose statue was hauled down. It felt as though the country was re-evaluating the notion of heroism. But how did we arrive at such a skewed version of it? 'Diamonds in the Mud' asks why the British have traditionally been taught to venerate kings and queens, generals and Eton-educated Prime Ministers, while, a few notable exceptions aside, those who changed history from below rarely got a look-in. It does so by telling the stories of a selection of working-class heroes the award-winning writer has met through life and journalism.