Michael Chaplin
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When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain for something that would anchor him to it, make him feel at home. Then, one Saturday afternoon, it came: the roar of a crowd, and a football team to support. Young Michael became an avid Newcastle United fan, and has remained one—if sometimes disenchanted—for over sixty years.
In this football memoir with a difference, the celebrated playwright...
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Meet handsome Archie MacDonald, a reluctant young Scottish laird torn between his trendy London life and the call of his wild Highland ancestry. Tricked into returning to Scotland by his eccentric father and dotty mother, Archie discovers he is now the Laird of the decaying family estate, Glenbogle.
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Joining the Outlaw's fight against injustice is mysterious Brother Tuck and a feisty Locksley girl, Kate. Robin leads the battle for a free world, but it's tough when corruption and evil sweep the land. The King is absent fighting in the Holy Land and while his throne is empty, his treacherous brother Prince John plots to seize it. The prince has his eye on Nottingham for his new capital and the country is on the brink of civil war.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the kind of case that even hardened coppers dread - the murder of an eight-year-old girl. The murder brings back vivid memories for Dalziel as fifteen years earlier he headed an investigation into the disappearance of another young girl from the same village - Mary, the daughter of Chloe and Walter Wulfstan. The killer was never found.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
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When Dalziel pays a visit to an old friend, Stella Moon, the landlady of a quiet village pub, he's shocked to find himself at the centre of an armed siege involving Stella's husband, a Falklands veteran. It's not long before armed police surround the pub, but Pascoe has little confidence in the officer in charge. He'd be a lot less happy if he knew Dalziel was one of the hostages.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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The discovery of a man's body in a deserted mine shaft throws a Yorkshire mining community into turmoil as it is forced to re-live some dark events from the past.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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The dramatic appearance of a mysterious man at the funeral of a wealthy woman sets tongues wagging in a small Yorkshire village. As members of the grieving family squabble over her estate, they are horrified when the stranger claims to be her long-lost son.