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Liverpool Tales from the Mersey Mouth

"John Williams writes in the language of Liverpool, a Scouse scribe who brings to life the people and places, inner thoughts and outer images, the vigour and vitality and essentially, the iron humour of a unique city."

Bill Harry, founder of Mersey Beat

"This is a wonderful collection of writings by J. Williams. While it isn't specifically about the Beatles, they are clearly a part of the story, along with the very fiber and fabric of the city that influenced him and them as well. The pieces are short, well written and filled with a delicious sense of humor that shines in the titles as well as the essays."

Jan Perry, Cincinnati Post

"The melting pot that is Liverpool has created the Beatles, great football teams and legendary comedians. But there is more … so much more. Our unique culture has also forged many unforgettable characters and yarns that Damon Runyon would have loved to put into print. After reading this book you’ll know what I mean."

Sam Leach, Original Beatles Promoter

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

This tourist map of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal features the canal corridor at 1:60,000 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators. The illustrated guide to the canal shows features of interest. Side one has canal coverage from Liverpool Docks to Burnley, including the Rufford Branch.

Detailed plans of Wigan and Blackburn at 1:15,000 show streets, shopping areas, waterway facilities and places of interest. There is an introduction to the history of the canal. Side two has canal coverage from Burnley to Leeds and the junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation. Detailed plans of Burnley, Skipton and Leeds at 1:15,000 show streets, shopping areas, waterway facilities and places of interest, and there is a Diagrammatic section of the canal.

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In Search of The La's - A Secret Liverpool

With timeless single "There She Goes", Lee Mavers’ La’s overtook The Stone Roses as the great hopes for British guitar rock and paved the way for Britpop. However, while "There She Goes" continues to be one of the most revered guitar pop singles of the last two decades and has appeared on countless soundtracks and compilations, since 1991, The La’s have been practically silent.

Bassist John Power quit to enjoy huge success with Cast; meanwhile, rumours of Mavers' studio-perfectionism, madness and drug addiction have abounded.

Captivated by the band's few recordings, the author sets out to discover the truth behind Mavers’ lost decade and subsequently gets drawn into the musical underground of a secret Liverpool. After interviewing promoters, former La's members and band associates, as well as musicians who have recently collaborated with Mavers, the author eventually gains a revelatory audience with Mavers himself.

Part detective story, part documentary, part band biography, In Search of the La's provides insight into the life of one of rock's last great mavericks, while filling in the lost link between Madchester and Britpop.

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Illustrated History of Liverpool's Suburbs

The Illustrated History of Liverpool's Suburbs is the first single-volume history of the development of the residential areas of the city. The author chronicles the growth of the suburbs from the early 19th century and illuminates the lives of people who lived in them.

His fascinating book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the story of Liverpool. The narrative is illustrated with more than 200 photographs, drawings and maps from Liverpool Record Office - most of which have never been published before.

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Liverpool: Wondrous Place

Liverpool: cradle of British pop culture. The "swingin' Sixties and youth revolution started in the backstreet nightclubs of this gritty Northern seaport. Even before the Beatles it had already produced Britain's first true rock 'n' roll star, Billy Fury, one of whose biggest hits was "Wondrous Place".

The Beatles took the story of Liverpool to the world's press and television channels across the globe. This is their story also, but told with a new twist - a mosaic of individual stories of the people who made it happen. Billy Fury, The Beatles, Brian Epstein, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, Cilla Black, The Liverpool Poets, Badfinger, The Real Thing, Echo and the Bunnymen, John Peel, Julian Cope, OMD, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Elvis Costello, Dead Or Alive, Pete Wylie, The Christians, The Farm, Lightning Seeds, The Coral - names and records that echo across the generations.

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More Memories of Liverpool

More Memories of Liverpool is a collection of photographs form a time not-so-long-ago. It is not a history book, rather a nostalgic look at life concentrating on that most eventful period in our recent past centred around the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

Each picture is brought to life with generous, well researched captions that will rekindle thoughts of how things were in the Liverpool of our childhood, the Liverpool of our parents, and perhaps even our grandparents.

Inside this book you will find images of everyday life, including people at work, at play, on the move and in the city centre. Every facet of Liverpool nostalgia finds a place.

Above all these images are intended to bring back memories of how things were in a time that seems like only yesterday.

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The Changing Face of Merseyside

Merseyside is a fascinating place and in this book well-known local historian Cliff Hayes looks not only at the city centre of Liverpool but also at Garston and its docks, Aintree and the Grand National, Speke and the airport, Waterloo and Walton. They are all here, even Bootle and Sefton - the ones that got away. A former merchant seaman, Cliff writes with real insight about life at sea, which was a shared experience for generations of Merseysiders. This part of Merseyside's history plays an important part in his book, as do the docks.

The author even takes a trip on the Royal Daffodil and includes Birkenhead and Wallasey. Anyone who ever clutched a bucket and spade will have fond memories of New Brighton, and Cliff revisits this mecca of sand castles and paddling. He also takes in Southport and crosses the Mersey at Widnes on the transporter. He ends the journey where many Scousers finished up - in Runcorn New Town. His book is a comprehensive, affectionate and finely-illustrated portrait of Merseyside today and yesterday.

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Everton: School of Science

Everton are one of the oldest, most respected and best supported teams in English football. They are founder members of the Football League and Premiership, nine times League Champions, five times FA Cup winners, and once European Cup Winners Cup winners. Theirs is one of the most fascinating stories in football encompassing the tales of such luminaries as Jack Sharp, Dixie Dean, Tommy Lawton, Dave Hickson, Alex Young, Brian Labone, Joe Royle, Greame Sharp, Neville Southall, Gary Lineker and Duncan Ferguson, their successes and failures, plus the fans memories and experiences of them.

To coincide with the 125th Anniversary of the foundation of Everton Football Club, as St Domingo's FC in 1878, ‘The School of Science’ tells the stories of the great and the good involved in Everton’s long and distinguished history. It sets out to bring back to life many fans memories and add fresh light to times they weren’t around to experience. It aims to be a comprehensive history of the club, a true record of the club’s long and proud history.

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