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Fiction - Local Writers & Local Interest - Novels set in Liverpool and the North West, OR written by local writers.

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution by Various authors
    From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution - by Various authors

    £5.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781916571020 | ISBN 10: 1916571026

    From the Ashes is an intricate tapestry of human experience told through stories, poetry, and scripts from WoW’s acclaimed Write to Work course.   Within these pages, the complexities of trauma, revolution, monsters and heroes are explored, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2023 by Various authors
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2023 - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580974 | ISBN 10: 191058097x

    Champion – Addae G   Runners Up – Chandana Das & Lee Stevenson  Finalists – Rachel Backland, Angela Cheveau, Patrick Graham, Matt Holland, Helen Jones, Phil Jones, Alisha Osman, Susan Stout & Amy Watkins.   Writing on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Surface/Below: A Collection of New Writing by Various authors
    Surface/Below: A Collection of New Writing - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910580554 | ISBN 10: 1910580554

    "By turns masterful, surprising and funny this collection of new Liverpool voices will keep you on your toes. Written under the altogether unreal conditions of a post-pandemic world, it reflects the best kind of artistic reaction to shared trauma, ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wolf Sisters by Paul Goetzee
    Wolf Sisters - by Paul Goetzee

    £10.49   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839754487 | ISBN 10: 1839754486

    Russia 1948. Stalin is purging everyone he sees as a threat. Gulags and shallow graves are full of writers, scientists, artists, journalists, politicians, academics and poets. Ludmila Sirotovska, a young militia officer, comes to a remote outpost i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Most Familiar Face In the World by George Skelly
    The Most Familiar Face In the World - by George Skelly

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781914366949 | ISBN 10: 1914366948

    Young Sheridan is an exceptional kid. Astute beyond his tender years, but trapped in a hard-knock childhood, amidst the squalor and grit of post-war Liverpool - where the grown-ups make no sense. Brutal yet kind, tragic yet funny, happy yet sad. He f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angels of L19 by Jonathan Walker
    The Angels of L19 - by Jonathan Walker

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838018139 | ISBN 10: 1838018131

    There’s more than one way to be born again.   Liverpool, 1984. The teenagers at Garston Chapel are the same as the rest of us: The Smiths, U2, crushes, football, mates. The grimy, low-down politics of the Thatcher era casting deep shadows i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blackbird by Claire Allen
    The Blackbird - by Claire Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999797409 | ISBN 10: 199979740x

    It is 1941. Hope’s father, Jenner, builds Liverpool Cathedral while the Luftwaffe’s bombs fall. It is 2014, and Hope cares for her husband Robert as Alzheimer’s destroys his personality.   Hope’s husband Robert is a retired civic sculpto ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Grey Storm by Lee Knafa
    The Grey Storm - by Lee Knafa

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999300524 | ISBN 10: 1999300521

    Liverpool writer Lee Knafa blends fiction with fact to present the largely untold story of black soldiers fighting for Nazi Germany during World War Two and the many 'grey' areas of Nazi racial policy concerning black people and those of mixed race. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2019 by Various authors
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2019 - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910580356 | ISBN 10: 191058035x

    Pulp Idol is a novel writing competition run by Writing on the Wall, Liverpool's longest running writing and literary organisation. Many new novelists, including Ariel Kahn - Raising Sparks, James Rice - Alice and the Fly, John Donoghue - The Death's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bess by Rose Thomas
    Bess - by Rose Thomas

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910580332 | ISBN 10: 1910580333

    Bess, young, black and part of a new generation growing up in post-war Liverpool, faces age-old racism amidst new opportunities for work, and personal, social and sexual exploration.   Returning to Liverpool from her home in London, Bess ponde ... more

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  • Cover image of book Striking Murder by A. J. Wright
    Striking Murder - by A. J. Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780749019440 | ISBN 10: 0749019441

    Longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger   1893. Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners’ strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners’ pay is the main cause of the st ... more

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  • Cover image of book The World Is {Not} a Cold, Dead Place by Nathan O
    The World Is {Not} a Cold, Dead Place - by Nathan O'Hagan

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780955469992 | ISBN 10: 0955469996

    I have developed a detachment from the rest of the human race. I don't fear them. I don't consider myself above them. It's just that I genuinely loathe them. There is no reason. I wasn't abused as a child. There were no traumatic events in adolescenc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice and the Fly by James Rice
    Alice and the Fly - by James Rice

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444790092 | ISBN 10: 1444790099

    A spellbinding debut novel by an exceptional new young British talent.  This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liberty Bazaar by David Chadwick
    Liberty Bazaar - by David Chadwick

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906582920 | ISBN 10: 1906582920

    Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, wealthy liberals enlist Trinity, an escaped slave girl, in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincoln’s Union. Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Makandal
    Makandal's Legacy - by C.G.S.Millworth

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781452048024 | ISBN 10: 1452048029

    Makandal’s Legacy is inspired by a Haitian legend. Francois Makandal fought a battle for freedom from the world of slavery in which he lived. We learn that he asked the voodoo spirits for a unique gift for his son – one that has impacted greatly up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Watching Eva by Alasdair Kay
    Watching Eva - by Alasdair Kay

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781849231671 | ISBN 10: 1849231672

    Abruptly cast out of Heaven, Eric awaits the architect who allowed him to enter even after the sins he committed. Eric can return by repenting, but in Heaven there was no memory and how can you repent for something you don't remember doing?  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Men by Matthew De Abaitua
    The Red Men - by Matthew De Abaitua

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905005581 | ISBN 10: 190500558x

    Nelson used to be a radical journalist, but now he works for Monad, one of the world's leading corporations. Monad make the Dr Easys, the androids which patrol London's streets: assisting police, easing tensions, calming the populace. But Monad also ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brass by Helen Walsh
    Brass - by Helen Walsh

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841955681 | ISBN 10: 184195568x

    Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men, but feels increasingly trapped. She seeks escape in the hedonistic underbelly of Liverpool, getting off on rough sex & cheap highs. Shockingly candid & brutally poetic, Helen Wal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshers by Kevin Sampson
    Freshers - by Kevin Sampson

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099428367 | ISBN 10: 0099428369

    Kit Hannah is about to start university. He's funny, clever and popular, but he's harbouring a dark forboding he dare not share with anyone. And it's with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life.  At the vast Hall of Residence he c ... more

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