The Trillion Dollar Conman
The Astonishing True Story of the Most Audacious Fraud in Sport
by Ben Robinson

Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is a tale of audacious international fraud that is stranger than fiction.

In 2009, Notts County FC were struggling to survive in League Two when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahrain royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel, were signed by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who had been appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League.

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Nature’s Last Dance
‘Will leave you surging with a desire to make the planet a better place’ - Professor Adam Hart
by Natalie Kyriacou

Across the planet, conservationists are locked in a high-stakes battle with the ghost of a drug lord and his herd of hippos. Scientists are fighting to save a flightless bird that romances rocks. Unconventional animals are upending 21st century beauty standards, and financiers are betting on whale poo to make its debut on Wall Street.

This is a story of survival and extinction, of life and death, of curiosity and perversion, of unimaginable joy and harrowing sorrow.

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The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill

An unusual and unforgettable take on what it means to be an outsider, an outcast, a misfit.

Five thousand years after having escaped Crete, the Minotaur finds himself deep in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at Grub’s Ribs.

He leads a lonely life observing the haphazard human goings on around him, trying in vain to put his flesh-devouring past behind him. Socially inept, he is at best tolerated by mortals.

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Women Say Stuff Anthology
by Women of DIY Poets

This collection contains poems by women that have previously featured at Women Say Stuff events during the first eleven years that this annual event has been running.

“Here’s a brilliant and boldly memorable collection of new voices, each speaking their truth with verve, insight and radical humour. I loved reading these pieces, and even when the subject matter was dark as midnight, the talent is so fierce that each piece is a sharp ray of light. It will illuminate your world.” Helen Cross

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The Truth About Empire
Real Histories of British Colonialism
Alan Lester, Sathnam Sanghera

Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian’s importance for democracy, amid history’s appropriation by apologists, racists and culture warriors.

The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can pinpoint it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today’s polarised debates over Britain’s imperial past.

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Caribbean Pioneer Gardeners
Hungerhill Gardens, St Ann’s Allotments, Nottingham
Colin Haynes

The Windrush story of Caribbean migration to the United Kingdom was played out in our factories, our music, our streets and inner cities. In a little-known aspect, migrants also worked on underused allotment sites, including England’s largest and oldest, Hungerhill Gardens, now known as St Ann’s Allotments in Nottingham.

At Hungerhill Gardens, people who had been brought up on smallholdings in Jamaica found overgrown plots available for very low rents. They learned to grow crops they knew in our colder climate and, as they retired, they took on additional plots, producing large quantities of vegetables for their families and community. They built remarkable greenhouses and summer houses with scrap materials, and cultivated using traditional tools from their homeland. This book features the experiences of six Caribbean gardeners, told in their own words through interviews for English Heritage, illustrated with photographs of them and their gardens throughout the seasons.

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Five Leaves Bookshop
One of the few independents to open in any UK city centre this century! Find us opposite Nottingham Tourism centre.

14A Long Row Nottingham

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Big White Shed
Big White Shed is a place to seek advice and tools, trade expertise and ideas in order to complete a creative project - a virtual meeting place for people who want to get a job done and the people who can help achieve that. In the shed, we will think through what you have in mind, and help make it a reality.

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DIY Poets Books

Poetry books by members of DIY Poetry.

This is a growing list of some of the best new poetry coming out of Nottingham.

The aim of DIY Poets is to give budding poets the opportunity to perform their work in public and get their work published. We want to create an atmosphere where poets feel confident about performing their work in public.

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The Bookcase
More than just a bookshop ...

Lowdham Nottinghamshire

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Bookwise
Bookwise comprises three charity bookshops in Hockley, Southwell & Newark, selling second hand books (many nearly new) in support of Music for Everyone.

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BEARDED BADGER PUBLISHING
Bearded Badger Publishing Co. was born from love....the love of books, magazines, pamphlets, in fact pretty much anything you can feast your eyes on!

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Waterstones Nottingham
Waterstones Nottingham, situated in the heart of the East Midlands, is home to a wonderful selection of books and gifts sure to excite all book lovers.

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Nottingham Books
A website dedicated to books about Nottinghamshire and those written by Nottinghamshire authors

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