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  • South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

    The Nineteenth Century

    by Brian Elliot ...
    In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Miner's Strike

    Day by Day

    by Brian Elliot ...
    Facing probable redundancy in his mid-fifties, South Elmsall miner Arthur Wakefield, fought for jobs and communities throughout the great strike of 1984/85. He also kept a marvellous diary, recording his experiences, impressions and events in considerable detail. The diary is a unique personal day by day account of the most bitter industrial dispute of the 20th century. Armed with nothing more ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aspects of Barnsley 7

    Discovering Local History

    by Brian Elliot ...
    The Aspects series takes the readers on a voyage of nostalgic discovery through their town, city or area. Following on from the success of Aspects of Barnsley 6, the series continues with Aspects of Barnsley 7. Brian Elliott offers the reader a chance to become re-acquainted with the forgotten by-ways of the social history in the Barnsley area. Aspects of Barnsley 7 contains a well researched and ... Read more

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  • Shadows Over Baker Street

    New Tales of Terror!

    by Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford ...
    The terrifyingly surreal universe of horror master H. P. Lovecraft bleeds into the logical world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s champion of rational deduction, in these stories by twenty top horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers.Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    A Short History of Seafaring

    by Brian Lavery ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 47 min

    A captivating read spanning 5,000 years of the ocean's historyConquest of the Ocean tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown. From the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese and the British, these are awe-inspiring tales of epic sea voyages involving great feats of seamanship, ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Three Days In June

    The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle

    by James O'Connell ...
    Narrated by Brian Bowles, Colin Mace, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Freddie Gaminara, Geoffrey Lumb, Huw Parmenter, Joe Gaminara, Oseloka Obi, Paul Panting, Penelope Rawlins, Sam Newton ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 30 min

    ***'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under cover of darkness on Mount Longdon in June 1982, nobody knew what to expect. The three platoons of B Company each approached the mountain silently, treading carefully through a series of defensive minefields. But following an explosion, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Jane Austen: A Most Improper Heroine

    by Margaret Elliot ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Brian Bones E ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Margaret's Short Biographies of History

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She wrote the greatest love stories in the English language. She never married. This is the life Jane Austen actually lived — and how every snub, heartbreak, and borrowed sitting room found its way into the books she wasn't allowed to put her name on. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Cryptozoic

    by Brian W. Aldiss ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    A novel of time-traveling adventure from the author of the story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A. I.: Artificial Intelligence.Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss challenged readers' minds for over fifty years with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction.In the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Romance of Plant Life (UNABRIDGED)

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    by George Francis Scott-Elliot ...
    Narrated by Brian Hassan, Stephen Hattley, Jessica Stokes, Gloria Stindt ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    Romance needs not always indicate a love story. In the series "The Library of Romance", authors look at the romantic side of science. The different books cover all different disciplines, including chemistry, astronomy, engineering, and, as in this case, biology. In this volume, G.F. Scott Elliot walks us through the romantic side of plant life. How do plants move towards the light, what are the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    SAS: Sea King Down

    by Mark Aston, Stuart Tootal ...
    Narrated by Simon Darwen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The riveting account of SAS action in the Falklands warAfter passing the world's toughest Special Forces selection and joining the elite ranks of D Squadron, 22 SAS in 1979, Mark 'Splash' Aston thought the hard part was over.Then on April 2 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.Days later D Squadron joined the cutting edge of Britain's campaign to retake the islands ... Read more

    $17.74 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Dark Light Years

    by Brian W. Aldiss ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    A strange alien species forces us to question our definition of civilization in this biting satire from the Grand Master of Science Fiction.What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod—intelligent, pacifist beings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Report On Probability A

    by Brian W. Aldiss ...
    Narrated by Keith Brown ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitionersMr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook