A Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, The World's Greatest Walker

A Man in a Hurry: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, The World's Greatest Walker

 by Nick Harris, Helen Harris and Paul Marshall

ISBN: 978-0956431370

Price: £14.99

PUBLISHED 1 APRIL 2012

For half a century, Edward Payson Weston was one of the most famous people in the English-speaking world as the first age of international celebrity unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement - a sport that took the Victorian world by storm - he criss-crossed Britain and America on foot earning fame, fortune and notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed. 

The story of a dreamer, schemer and ladies man, who met with presidents and royalty, crooks and knaves, A Man in a Hurry is one man's athletic journey from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age. With its colourful detail, historical context and readable style, the co-authors have skillfully recreated a vanished world to tell one of the most amazing stories in sporting history and provide an important addition to the sports literature canon. 

PRAISE FOR NICK HARRIS'S EARLIER WORK, THE FOREIGN REVOLUTION:

'Harris has travelled down the byways of football and life with great tenacity and insight and his gift to the world is twofold: a significant piece of sport history. And a blockbusting read.' -James Lawton, The Independent.

'Harris's strength lies in his tireless research, emerging with a series of stirring stories.' -The Sunday Times

'I can only praise his diligence and detail.' -John Motson

 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Nick Harris is chief sports news correspondent of the Mail on Sunday, editor of sportingintelligence.com and SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year.

Helen Harris is journalist by training and former national press officer for Britain's largest natural history charities.

Paul Marshall is an historian who became interested in Victorian race-walking when researching the life of an ancestor. He is editor of kingofthepeds.com

Liverpool: The Complete Record

Liverpool: The Complete Record

Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson

ISBN - 978-0956431356

Price £25.00 Hardback

Publication 1 August 2011

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120 years, eighteen League titles, and five European Cups after its birth, LIVERPOOL: THE COMPLETE RECORD, is the definitive account of one of the world’s most successful and famous clubs.

Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson have spent years trawling through the archives to uncover every conceivable fact and figure about Liverpool FC. For the first time in a single volume they have painstakingly provided details of every game, line up, goalscorer, attendance and result, as well as a plethora of other facts and figures.

With full appendixes, detailing the careers of the hundreds of players to have turned out for the club, and a full narrative account of Liverpool’s amazing history, this is the must-read book for every fan of one of the best-supported clubs in the world.

PRAISE FOR LFCHISTORY.NET

“A statistical gold mine for LFC fans like no other.”

—The Kop Magazine

“A deep well of information on the club we love.”

—Paul Tomkins

“A five star website, just like the club.”

—Anfield Online

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ARNIE BALDURSSON and GUDMUNDUR MAGNUSSON are the founders and editors of the LFChistory.net website.

Reviews:

anfield-online.co.uk - "One LFC Book to Rule Them All"

Click Liverpool - "An Excellent Read"

Kop.is - "I cannot emphasise how strongly I recommend this book for any passionate red." 

Early praise via social media sites

Everton: The School of Science

Everton: The School of Science - New fully revised and updated edition

by James Corbett, foreword by Alex Young

In his highly acclaimed history of one of the country’s most distinguished teams, James Corbett traces the fortunes of Everton Football Club — from their humble origins as a church team to the David Moyes era. 

From Fred Geary to Alex Young and Dixie Dean through to such modern icons as Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill, Everton: The School of Science takes in the stories of all the men who made the club great. 

Fully revised and updated to include all the action to the closing stages of the 2009/10 season,Everton: The School of Science is the definitive history of one of English football’s aristocrats; an engrossing and graphic account of the inside stories, glories and shattered dreams of ‘The People’s Club’. 

Written with the enthusiasm and stoicism of a committed fan, the wit of a fanzine and the authority of a historian, it is the ultimate guide to the team’s story. 

PRAISE FOR EVERTON: THE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

'A history book, from which the passion of its author burns off every page.' —LIVERPOOL ECHO 

‘Charts the club’s highs and lows and goes behind the scenes to uncover all the stories from the bootroom to the boardroom.’ —NEWS OF THE WORLD 

‘An awesome tome.’ —TOFFEEWEB 

James Corbett is European Correspondent of World Football Insider and writes for FourFourTwo. He was formerly Contributing Editor of the awarding winning Observer Sport Monthly and is also author of Everton: The School of Science. He lives in London with his wife and children.

I Found No Peace

I Found No Peace: : A Journey Through The Age of Extremes, Webb Miller

£9.99 Softback and E-Book

ISBN: 978-0-9564313-1-8

Publication: January 2011

In one year as a journalist Webb Miller covered thirty-three murders and three hangings in Chicago, was kidnapped by an American tycoon and covered the Western Front. Later he broke news of the First World War armistice, witnessed a guillotine execution, befriended Mussolini, interviewed Hitler, rode a Zeppelin across the Atlantic, reported from the front line in the Spanish Civil War and Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia and accompanied Gandhi on the Great Salt March.

First published in 1935, “I Found No Peace” is a forgotten classic, written with great poignancy and élan and heavily influenced by Miller’s hero Henry David Thoreau. Part-history, part-memoir this is one of the most evocative and close-to-the-action accounts ever written about the modern world’s defining era.

Praise for Webb Miller:

‘Webb Miller ranked as a general in the corps of war correspondents.’ – Time

‘One of the outstanding American correspondents in Europe.’ –President FDR Roosevelt

‘An ace among American war correspondents abroad.’ – Pittsburgh Press

About the author: Webb Miller (1891-1940) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He relocated to Europe during the First World War and lived for many years in London.  For more than a quarter of a century he was one of the most brave and ubiquitous chroniclers of world affairs and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. 

Everton: The Official Complete Record

Everton: The Official Complete Record, Steve Johnson

£20.00, Hardback 

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Publication Date: November 2010

ISBN: 978-0-9564313-2-5

EVERTON: THE OFFICIAL COMPLETE RECORD is the definitive account of one of Europe’s most distinguished clubs. With nine league titles, five FA Cups and a rich club lore that boasts names such as Dixie Dean, Alex Young, Alan Ball and more recent heroes like Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta, theirs is a history replete with success and high drama. Boasting one of the most passionate and knowledgeable sets of fans, Everton are justifiably known as ‘The People’s Club’

More than 130 years after Everton’s humble birth as a church team, Steve Johnson has painstakingly trawled through the archives to provide for the first time details of every game, line up, goalscorer, attendance and result, as well a plethora of other facts and figures. This officially endorsed record of one of English football’s great names includes season-by-season accounts of every campaign since the onset of league football, more than 100 player profiles and a foreword by the Club’s midfield talisman, Mikel Arteta.

Praise for Everton: The Official Complete Record:

‘Evertonians never forget their heroes and I am sure they’ll love reading about them in this book. I find it amazing that every result and every team line-up is featured – I’ve never seen a history book in so much detail. Everton supporters of all ages will treasure it.’ - Mikel Arteta

‘Outstanding … sad stattos like myself will spend hours poring over and, no doubt, using it as research … it really is an impressive piece of work’ – Dave Prentice, Liverpool Echo

About the author: Steve Johnson is a lifelong Evertonian who combined his passion for statistics and all things Everton to found, in 2006, the popular website evertonresults.com – widely acknowledged as the most authoritative source on the club’s history. Originally from Merseyside, he now lives in Buckinghamshire.