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Just released - Daniel Birch's crime thriller "Clipped".
"Daniel Birch captures the essence of your typical lads falling into trouble in a brilliantly funny book. The
writer clearly knows his gangster movies (and eighties music!) and uses this to write a fast paced book that keeps you guessing
to the last minute as to who will double cross who. Definite recommendation."
Born and raised on the Bransholme
Council Estate in Hull, Daniel got his black belt at fourteen years old and has "been kicking and punching things ever
since".
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Just released - Clive Ashman's "Mosaic".
During the Second World War, a Roman mosaic was disovered in a quarry at Brantingham in the East Yorkshire.
In 1948, it was stolen just before it was scheduled to be moved to a museum. The case has never been solved. This
book follows an investigation into its whereabouts and, in parallel, follows the story of a Roman civil servant
sent from London to Petuaria to investigate a local politician called Marcus Januarius.
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Robert Adams' "Antman"
is a gripping psychological thriller which keeps the reader guessing the identity of the murderer till the last pages.
The Antman is the ultimate terroriser who chooses ants as a murder weapon and who must be stopped before one suspicious death
becomes a killing spree.
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Tim Roux's latest book, "The
Dance of the Pheasodile" is based around the streets of Hull between the Anlaby and the Hessle Roads, telling
the story of a London architect who comes round from a trance to find himself inside the body of a penniless Hull gangster,
Harry Walker, who is hated by his wife, has no relationhip with his son, and is being hunted down by the local crime boss
for helping his prostitute sister get away. Not only that but the Bransholme crime boss doesn't like him much
either, and the Humberside Police are looking for a likely fall-guy to improve their detection rates. Get out of
that ......
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Winifred Holtby's most renowned
novel reveals the lives and relationships of the characters of "South Riding". Sarah
Burton, the fiery headmistress of the local girls' school; Mrs Beddows, the district's first alderwoman; and Robert
Carne, the gentleman-farmer locked in a disastrous marriage. A classic.
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The flawed nature of the court system is at
the heart "Pleading Guilty", and it's a system the main protagonist, Wallace,
understands the rules of, spending his days dealing with people in awe of his status; people, who in their ignorance, thank
him for his efforts, even if he knows he's achieved nothing at all, sometimes even manipulating them into believing he's
served them well.
Although a serious book, there's no doubting
Genney is a writer with a satirical eye for dark humour. The manner in which the UK's legal system is manipulated by the
legal professionals, often for their own ends is laid bare through a string of Wallace's cases.
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Just a Girl, Lily Wilson was an
average twenty three year old living the high life with shopping sprees, credit cards, partying and plenty of bad choices.
working, single and a full time dreamer but no one could have imagined the whirl wind that was about to crash in to her world
and turn it upside down, the stranger that was about to burst her bubble of fantasy and drop her with a great big bang into
reality.
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Mally, a well-known West Hull character,
won £54,000 on "Deal Or No Deal" in 2005.
He has now written his first book of a trilogy detailing
his life, telling the story of a boy who survived a childhood of neglect and abuse.
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Published by Hull-based Bitterne Books, the first two titles in this humorous series offer a different
take on the modern world that we live in. Part satire, part social comment, they follow the story of AAA Aarbon, a self-confessed
seeker of anonymity.
AAA Aarbon
is described by his editor as being best forgotten for many reasons. "Rising To Obscurity"
charts the absurd and touching life of AAA from his upbringing in East Yorkshire, through to his graduation from the University
of East Yorkshire, from where he now teaches Irrelevant Studies. "How to Remain Anonymous"
continues his adventures.
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Tricia Walker's "Benedict's Brother"
"For every beginning, there
is an end . . " It is a harsh lesson but one gracefully learned by the heroine of Tricia Walker's first novel.
Benedict's
Brother details the story of a young woman fulfilling her uncle's wishes to scatter his ashes at the Bridge on the River
Kwai.
The unlikely trip becomes a poignant journey of self-discovery and realisation after she leaves her Yorkshire
home and travels to the other side of the world, visiting her long-lost brother, a Buddhist monk living at a remote forest
monastery in Thailand.
