This is a unique & superbly presented collection of photographs of Newcastle United Football Club from the very early days until 1992, freshly selected from tens of thousands of images in the " Daily Mirrors" extensive archive.

These evocative pictures, many of them previously unpublished, chart the rise of one of the most talked about football clubs in the English game.

The early days & the Edwardian Masters of the 1900s, the Title & Cup winning sides of the 20s & 30s with some fabulous characters like Wee Hughie Gallacher, the Toons immediate post-war success with a star-studded line-up, the likes of Milburn & Mitchell, & a treble of Wembley victories, to European football
- & more silverware.

To further Wembley action & larger than life characters like Supermac, then the emergence of Geordie lads Waddle, Beardsley & Gazza & the coming of the Messiah
- Kevin Keegan
- who captivated Tyneside as the club was transformed as the 90s opened & started on what was to be a headlining roller-coaster ride.

Its all here. This book will bring to life the nostalgia of such a colourful history.

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• ISBN: 9781844259526
• Author: Paul Joannou
• Publisher: Haynes
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 207
• Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 2cm




















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Nottingham Forest are one of the oldest football clubs in the world & undeniably the Brian Clough era stands out like a shimmering jewel.

The 60s brought sustained status with Johnny Careys team finishing as championship runners-up to Manchester United, but the early 1970s brought relegation
- & then came Clough. Such was the scope of Forests transformation that they regained the top flight in 1977, lifted the League title a year later & then followed up with the little matter of winning the European Cup in 1979 & 1980.

The heroes of the rarified time
- John Robertson, Viv Anderson, Martin ONeill, Peter Shilton et al
- march across these pages in all their glory as the Clough years stretch to 1993, bringing retirement for the turbulent boss & demotion for his team.

Since then there have been varying fortunes, but here the whole riveting story is brought to life through the magnificent Daily Mirror pictorial archive, from which countless gems have been unearthed.

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• ISBN: 9780857332035
• Author: Ivan Ponting
• Publisher: Haynes
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 2cm


















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Now in paperback, When Football Was Football
- West Ham explores their colourful history & tells the story of some of their legendary
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This lovingly compiled book is a photographic celebration of Hampshires greatest club, drawing on the thousands of outstanding pictures contained within the Daily Mirrors huge archive.

All the clubs legendary figures, from Wayman to Bates, Paine, Mc Menemy, Ball, Channon, Keegan, Shearer & Le Tissier are of course featured, but this is much more than a visual record of famous names & great games.

It provides a unique, behind-the-scenes insight into the day-to-day atmosphere of a great club down the years. The nooks & crannies of the old intimate Dell &, more recently, their impressive St Marys home, the players, the fans & the off-beat quirks & curiosities that help make Saints such a special club.

Wonderfully nostalgic & hugely evocative, a must for all Southampton fans.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780857331816
• Author: David James
• Publisher: Haynes
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 2cm















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Books Celebrity Biographies ' My Dad is truly a Man amongst men'
- Tyson Fury I'm a traveller, a bare knuckle boxer & the father
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Played 24, won 10, lost 10 & drawn four. Three goals, three benders, one suspension & one sacking. This is the inside story of what happened when the world's most famous footballer joined the tenth best team in Scotland
- THE definitive story of what happened when George Best came to Edinburgh.
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The final word on the world's greatest rock b&, Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer & former confidant of both Page & Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess
- & eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction & death. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's longstanding interest in the occult, & goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena last year, & how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently
- if only his former protege, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible & hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, & their infamous manager, Peter Grant. The culmination of several years research, this book tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.

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Over ten years after When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the b&, comes this major & extensively researched

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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his God-appointed position & unify his kingdom. Out of these circumstances, & involving the very people who were engaged in the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace & lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford & London translated the Bible, drawing from many previous versions, & created what many believe to be the greatest prose work ever written in English – the product of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson & Bacon; but also of extremist Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings & crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create & shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, & the foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous & deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man: not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a bestseller, & has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating & dramatic account of the early years of the first Stewart ruler, & the scholars who laboured for seven years to create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch & London at a time unlike any other. ...

When God Was A Rabbit is a mesmerizing portrait of childhood, eccentricity, the darker side of love & sex, the pull & power of family ties, of loss & life. With her warm, subtle & endearing voice, Sarah makes us laugh out loud before reducing us to tears as we follow one generation's faith. ...