There have been many fictional accounts of dominant men, but few that have told the real story of a man who has dedicated his life to upending naughty females and teaching them to mind their manners. Nick Urzdown's first volume of memoirs, A Spanking Good Life was described by Janus as "a great read," and with this second volume the memories of insolent women who are just asking to be disciplined takes his story bang up to date. From a Polish saleswoman to one of Nick's former students in Mexico, the anecdotes come thick and fast as the skirts are lifted and the knickers lowered to leave eight bad little girls about to lose the ability to sit down in comfort for some time to come.

Good Times with Girls

Nick Urzdown

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It is 1910 and fifty-six year old William Henry Kelly, a caulker at Belfast's Queen's Island shipyard, is engaged in building the White Star liner Titanic, when Belle, his beloved wife of 30 years, is brutally murdered. Based on the true story of the author's great grandfather, this is an account of life in Belfast's shipyards and working class districts during the turbulent first quarter of the 20th century. Set against the background of the construction and demise of Belfast's iconic but ill-fated super liner, and the effects of the First World War on industrial and community relations in Belfast, it tells the story of an ordinary but intelligent working man's battle with social injustice and with the demons within himself.  This tale of a hard-working man, whose personal tragedy is eclipsed by by that of the doomed ship and her fifteen hundred lost souls, is told with humour, pathos and an affection for the characters.

A Wistful Eye - The Tragedy of a Titanic Shipwright

Literature & Fiction

Kelly, D. J.

Genre Fiction

Savage Eden

Kevin Ashman

The Whispering Bell

Sellars, Brian

Cows to Corpses

Archer, Alison

Biographies & Memoirs

The Burial Chamber

Cox, Jeremy Lawrence

Seventh century Powys at the hall of King Cynddylan of Pengwern. The princesses, Heledd and Ffreur attend a celebratory feast where fifteen-year-old Heledd develops an infatuation for a travelling minstrel. The illicit liaison triggers a chain of events that will destroy two kingdoms and bring down a dynasty. Set against the backdrop of the pagan-Christian conflict between kings Penda and Oswiu The Song of Heledd sweeps the reader from the ancient kingdom of Pengwern to the lofty summits of Gwynedd where Heledd battles to control both her own destiny and that of those around her, until, by degrees, she is gradually bereft of everything she holds dear. Judith Arnopp has carried out lengthy research into the fragmented ninth century poems, Canu Llywarch Hen and Canu Heledd, and the history surrounding them to produce a fiction of what might have been.

The Song of Heledd

Arnopp, Judith

Literary

The year is 1955. Bill Haley is rocking the charts and teddy boys are emerging from shadowy street corners. It's a year of great change and, for four families in Churchill Street, East London, it's a year that none of them will ever forget. 'The Chicken Run' is set on a council estate built after the Second World War. Most of the story takes place in 1955 and 56. The main characters are the Potter family Billy, Kate and their nine year old son Jimmy. The Chicken Run is a story of children and adults who inhabit the same physical space but live in totally different worlds as most children in that era did. It takes the reader into an extreme scenario where fact and fiction become confused and lead to potentially disastrous conclusions. Throughout the novel there is a strong vein of East End humour, even in the darkest moments. On the surface it was maybe a much more brutal and prejudiced world than now but this is also a story about community spirit; how people stood together and supported each other.

The Chicken Run

Whelon, Lynne

The Burqa master is a paradoxical drama and comedy following the lives of an Iranian father and son exiled in London. The old man, a diabetic sugar addict is lost between the mosque and Turkish delight. He shoots up insulin passing from stupor and self-pity to holy fervour, crashing about, shouting sermons and dropping syringes around the house. His son Hamid, living the Muslim paradise here and now, tries to humour his father by working in the family shop and taking part in the dawn prayers accompanied by Muezzin chants on the ghetto blaster. But Hamid also has a secret life recruiting female shop clients to sex sessions. Disguised as a widow in a burqa he gives 'English lessons' to these Muslim housewives in the privacy of their bedrooms, while their husbands happily pay. The precarious harmony between father and son is destroyed by a series of accidents which are farcical yet tragic, causing the old man to relive a dark secret buried in his faded memories as he relives his own public flogging for a crime he'd commit again given the chance.

The Burqa Master

Cid Andrenelli

Dramas & Plays

<p>Following the popularity of the memoirs of Harry Flashman, the Victorian scoundrel who got himself embroiled in many events of his age, this book introduces a new generation of the family: Thomas Flashman, whose career covers the Napoleonic and Georgian era. This first book covers his adventures with Thomas Cochrane, one of the most extraordinary naval commanders of all time. From the brothels and gambling dens of London, through political intrigues and espionage, the action moves to the Mediterranean and the real life character of Thomas Cochrane. This book covers the start of Cochrane's career including the most astounding single ship action of the Napoleonic war. Thomas Flashman provides a unique insight as danger stalks him like a persistent bailiff through a series of adventures that prove history really is stranger than fiction.</p>

Flashman and the Seawolf (Adventures of Thomas Flashman)

Brightwell, Robert

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