Kate Owen is a woman fleeing from the past. Leaving a rewarding job in London, she's uprooted her life and given away her daughter to keep them both safe. Damaged from a traumatic event that broke her family apart, she attempts to find peace in the city she now calls home - Liverpool. It's there she meets the seemingly eligible Alex Price, who offers her a glimpse of a happy future she thought could never exist. But there are those in London who can...

DCI Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit - a message from the underworld to snitches, cops and rival gangs. One mile away, a Liverpool-Somali girl, Misha, staggers into a run-down bar, dazed and confused. The bar's owner, a career criminal called Shakespeare who dresses like an Edwardian dandy, cannot get a word out of her. Shakespeare, a chivalrous...

Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Alex Tulloch's book gathers together a myriad of data on this historic city. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise. A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something you never knew. For...

At the age of 24, Mary, a widow with a child to support and a wayward sister to worry about, leaves her native Dublin for Liverpool, a city devastated by Hitler's bombs.

Ever since Dot Baker lost her husband in the war she's tried to keep his memory alive. But when John Kershaw turns up on her doorstep everyone in the street can see they're meant to be together. Everyone, that is, except Dot herself.

Is one young woman's beautiful singing voice enough to bring the success that will free her from poverty? 1925. Alice O'Connor's poor family lives in the heart of Liverpool's toughest slum. Her bullying father drinks away what little he earns, whilst Nelly, her careworn mother, works when she can and begs when she can't. Since she was five young Alice has also begged in the streets around the docks but she has managed to hold on to the hope of something...

Amongst the unrest of Liverpool in 1910, the friendship between Leah and Nora remains constant. However, Leah is the daughter of a rich haulage magnate and Nora is only a domestic. Appalled by poverty, Leah is shocked to become the owner of the slums.

When Maggie Deegan dies, her son Georgie returns home to claim his position and, after a furious row with his sister Katie, throws her out of the house. Katie goes to live with her friend Vi, but their house gets bombed, and she is forced back home.

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar room brawl it changes their family forever. She is sent away only to return home a few years later, unmarried and pregnant. Her mother is incandescent with rage and with Callum - Babby's sweetheart - nowhere to be found, persuades her daughter to go to a Mother and Baby Home. But does Babby have no option but to give her baby up... For Fans of Call...

When Maddy's parents die her brother is left to look after her and her sister. He takes off to Liverpool to get married leaving them destitute. They follow him to Liverpool and Maddy finds work as a maid to an old lady and becomes her sole beneficiary.