At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. This book chronicles Garvey's extraordinary life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives & the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely, tragic death. ...

Captain of Celtic & midfield enforcer for Northern Irel&, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British football. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006/7 season in this paperback edition, is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury & tumultuous football success at club level. ...

Twelve months later, the Celtic manager delivered on that promise & brought the Scottish Premier League title back to Paradise. Celtic are the Scottish champions after a dramatic season of highs & lows on the field, & hatred & heartache off the field. Throughout it all, Neil Lennon has led Celtic with dignity, courage, passion & pride, remaining focused on the prize
- which he & the Celtic fans coveted. Neil Lennon reflects on a campaign that, at one point threatened to collapse. He speaks openly & candidly about that day at Rugby Park when his side were 3-0 down at half-time against Kilmarnock, & how he gave the most important team-talk of his managerial career. He looks back on the contrasting fortunes of his team against Rangers, the importance of the Europa League campaign, the role supporters played throughout the season &, of course, the feelings of joy when Celtic were crowned champions...ironically, at Rugby Park. From 15 points behind to being crowned Scottish champions
- this is Neil Lennon's story of his championship-winning season.

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Six decades of photographs of one of rock music's most influential artists. Neil Young's appeal crosses generations, from his time in Buffalo Springfield, pioneering country rock to his proto-grunge & other harder sounds. The man is an iconoclast, innovator, inspiration & influence to multiple generations of musicians. Despite his reluctance to enter the mainstream, Young has long been popular & has been photographed by some of the biggest names in rock photography. This superb collections gives an insight into the life of a legend! ...

Bill Bryson shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet & heads for Europe. He retraces his travels as a student twenty years earlier with caustic hilarity & his own unique brand of humour. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson lived in North Yorkshire for many years. First published in 1991 by Secker & Warburg. ...

Nella Last's War established the housewife & mother from Barrow-in-Furness as one of the most powerful & moving voices of the Second World War, & inspired the award-winning television drama Housewife, 49. In this next instalment of her unique diaries, Nella Last describes how ordinary people re-built their lives after the war. The allies' victory was a cause for hope & celebration, much privation & anxiety remained. In her sensitive & playful account of daily life in the austerity years, written for the Mass Observation project, Nella Last captures the thoughts & feelings of post-war Britain. This book has 306 pages & is 19.8cm x 12.9cm x 2cm. ...

In September 1939, Nella Last, a housewife & mother, started a diary that would last her 30 years. The account she left behind gave an fascinating & unique insight into life during the Second World War. While Nella's younger son joins the army, she & the rest of her family try to adapt to the rhythms of life in Barrow-in-Furness, which suffered terribly from bombing raids. Writing each day for the 'mass-observation' project, Nella grows in confidence as the result of her work. & her diary entries tell a powerful story about the war years, covering everything from sex to the genuine fear of invasion. The dairy covers the period in which she turned 50, saw her children leave home & reviewed her life & marriage
- which she eventually compared to slavery. This is the war as Nelly Last lived it. This book has 311 pages & is 19.8cm x 12.9cm x 2cm.
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The Glasgow Nellie Thompson had been born into was a city bled colourless by poverty & despair, & divided against itself by religion & class. A city where appearances meant more than the truth that might lie in a person's heart.. Nellie knew what it was like to be hungry & hopeless; to live a bitter lie with a man she hated. But still she held on to her dreams. Somehow she would leave those grey & violent streets behind. Somehow she would make her own life & her own world ï ½ even if she were forever denied the comfort of love. ...

When Nelly returns home to find that her mother is missing, she has only one option: to fly out in a knitted hot air balloon with her best friend, a turtle called Columbus, & rescue her! She may be looking for her mother, but what she finds along the way is not what she was expecting.. . ...

When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she does it. That's why she's knitted herself some sails, stocked her boat with supplies, got her best friend, a turtle called Columbus, on board, & set off on a voyage to find her missing father. But even Nelly isn't prepared for what happens next... ...