Lancashire

From its heyday in the nineteenth century as a major centre of wiremaking, textiles, chemical production and brewing, through to its subesquent reinvention as a new town in the …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WALKER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDLove is a bygone …

Don't miss Stacey Halls' incredible new novel THE HOUSEHOLD - available to buy now!The Sunday Times Bestseller, Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and original break-out witchlit novel. …

This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain’s industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to …

Once upon another time, about a million songs ago, there lived a musical group on a teenager's bedroom wall. These persons raided her queendom on an ordinary October day, through …

How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything______________________________________________________________With a foreword by Ruud van NistelrooyAn Irish …

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Whalley and its surrounding areas have changed and developed over the last century

In 2013, when legendary boss Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement, Manchester United seemed the dream job for any football manager. Champions of England, the biggest and most …

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key individuals and an increase in …

'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' Guy Gunaratne 'Absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' Tom Benn'A hymn to empathy, alive with …