Twenty-five years on from his classic football book The Far Corner, Harry Pearson returns to the north-east to find out what has changed since then

A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointme

“Short, sharp, devastating, The Farther Shore is a literary machine gun . . . a winning debut that happens to be a war novel.” —Kansas City Star A small u

Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.

Already a bestseller in France where it was nominated for several literary prizes, this brilliant theological thriller asks--and answers--perhaps the most compe