Alan: 6649 books

This is the story of a traveller who visits a new town and witnesses an event from the past, which has haunted the village he is in for centuries.

Radio 5-Live and BBC 1's match summariser, football journalist Alan Biggs, relates his comical escapades in the world of professional sport in Confessions of a Football Reporter. From his earliest days presenting on cable TV (while skiving off from his regular job at the Derbyshire Times), Biggs gives...

After Pusan, first published in 1995, is the third panel (alongside Blindfold Games and Coastwise Lights, also in Faber Finds) of a triptych of memoirs by Alan Ross. Inspired by Ross's visit in 1986 to the South Korean coastal city of Pusan, like its predecessors it gracefully entwines poetry and...

If you're over 40 and out of work I will tell you why you may never find work again! "No Work For You" will help you understand what happened to our economy,this recession/depression happened and what we need to do now to survive it.

What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle to be the devil's instrument? The American play party was the fundamentalist's answer. Here the singing was a cappella, the dancers followed prescribed steps, and arm and elbow...

Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation—the...

Fishing Around Britain: A Guide to the best fishing locations in Great BritainAre you one of the thousands of Britons who have a passion for Britain's largest participation sport.Fishing Around Britain is an e-book series aimed at the angler who wants to try a new location, or just get some...

Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our...

For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie...

Entropy may be inevitable, but one man can not accept this, and his obsession leads to madness.

Both a life story and a portrait of public higher education during the twentieth century, Harry Huntt Ransom captures the spirit of a dynamic individual who dedicated his talents to nurturing intellectual life in Texas and beyond. Tracing the details of Ransom's youth in Galveston and Tennessee and...

Born in Dublin but raised in London, Alan Dunne spent nearly a quarter of a century with what became his home-town club of Millwall - and after almost 400 senior games left as a legend. Joining the youth set-up at the age of eight, he rose through the ranks to eventually become a player who epitomised...

In a world of questions, the world needs someone to go out and get the answers. Meet Alan Webber, aka The Global Detective. If you've ever wondered how business is changing, where you can find new thinking and innovative startups, if you're troubled by global competition or have a hard time making...