This is the first complete account of two legendary North Norfolk music venues: West Runton Pavilion and The Royal Links Pavilion, Cromer. From the early days of strict tempo dance bands, through soul, disco and glam rock, to heavy metal and punk, this book includes reviews, memories and comments from fans, former owners and stars.

From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort. . . Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a lot to be grateful for--their home, their children, and each other. They've even survived the fact that Brad's ex-wife lives next door and Suzanne's intrusive mother and siblings are just down the road. But Suzanne's confidence unravels at Brad's fiftieth birthday blowout, when young, voluptuous, neighbor Micheline brings a specially wrapped gift: herself. Suddenly, Suzanne feels like she's the one having the midlife crisis. . . Hoping to impress Brad, and ease family troubles that are already straining their relationship, Suzanne goes into business with a friend. But the endeavor stretches her too thin, leaving Brad hurt and alienated. Soon he begins to distance himself from her--moving right into the waiting arms of Micheline, who is all too ready to ditch her own husband. Now, with marriages on the line across the neighborhood, Suzanne and Brad will have to question their notion of loyalty to one another--and to themselves. Praise For The Novels Of Bettye Griffin "Fear and joy practically leap off the pages. A well-written story you will hate to see end." --Romantic Times on Once Upon a Project "A compelling drama about three families striving for the American dream."--Booklist on If These Walls Could Talk

The floors are shaking, and the windows are cracking . . . something big and heavy is stomping around Corman Towers. Furry and Flo are awoken by the ruckus and discover an enormous stone golem wreaking havoc in the alley behind their building. It's up to them to get the gravel goliath back to Furry's world where he belongs . . . but making it back to their own world in time is easier said than done.

The USA Today bestselling author of Unholy Matrimony is back with a new Lucille Mystery! This time Lucille must track down the killer of a diet guru who had a lot more to lose than just a few extra pounds. With her best friend Flo’s wedding approaching, Lucille is desperate to trim down and joins Weigh to Lose, a weight-loss program led by a clipboard-wielding harridan who’s as unattractively thin as she is shrill. When the bossy woman turns up dead with her throat slashed and a tasty-looking cannoli stuffed in her mouth, Lucille figures she got her just desserts. But when the local police come up empty-handed, Lucille sinks her teeth into the mystery and narrows the list of suspects to a husband with a wandering eye, a sexy young Swedish au pair, and a gambler deep in debt to the wrong people. Until one of the suspects becomes the victim of another gruesome murder. Afraid she’s bitten off more than she can chew and worried that she might be next on the killer’s list, Lucille puts her own neck on the line with a wild plan to trap the culprit and tip the scales of justice. “If you want a very funny murder mystery, then this book is for you. I’ve never laughed so hard while reading before.” —Goodreads, on Unholy Matrimony, Book 2 in the USA Today bestselling Lucille Mystery Series

A tale based loosely in reality, this story traces the fortunes of the Ingles family in the West Riding coal fields around Wakefield. Theirs is a saga that could be replicated time after time in an area where scratching a living wasn't easy, and where coal, drink, and occasional infidelity played integral parts in the life of the community. Their story starts in the mid-1940s and paints a picture of the privations endured, the dramas enacted, and the joys and sorrows shared, in a town where all understood how hard it was to break free from the shackles of a traditional coal mining community constraints Potentially fifth generation coal hewers, William and Jack Ingles did just that, but at what cost to them and to their close family? This is the first volume.

A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume. Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was published in Esquire, a significant American literary magazine known for publishing leading writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis. Over the years, nearly forty more of Buckler’s short stories were published in several popular magazines, including Maclean’s where his story “The Quarrel” won first prize for fiction. In Thanks for Listening: Stories and Short Fictions by Ernest Buckler, Marta Dvořák gathers together many of those stories as well as some previously unpublished pieces. At times she has chosen to include the fuller, original versions, and has reinstated some of the lost passages that were cut from stories to fit popular magazine requirements. Ernest Buckler’s writing is rooted in the magic of the ordinary. He celebrates the land and its community, and sensuously recreates a paradise — almost a Garden of Eden. Buckler’s American editors were right in believing that no one evoked the lost world of North Americas agrarian past better than Ernest Buckler.

Mark and Jeannie Smythe are a married couple in their forties, they own a beautiful house on Blackheath Common have their own buisness, his and her's sports cars and money no object for a wealthy pair such as themselves. To the outside world they appear to have everything ,and that indeed was once the case. However a tragedy happened in their lives five years ago that turned their world upside down. After three miscarriages , Jeannie becomes pregnant again, but their joy is short lived as the final pregnancy is ectopic, resulting in Jeannie being rushed in to hospital for an emergency hysterectomy. Although Both of them are completely devastated at the news that they will never be able to conceive again, Mark slowly comes to terms with the tragedy over the years that follow. Unfortunately Jeannie does not, Mark does his best to love and support his wife, but there is only so much he can do. What would any man do ? Has Jeannie Smythe become a woman who is simply drenched in grief ? Or has she become psychotic ? A woman who is prepared to stop at nothing to get what she truly believes she deserves, even if that means hurting the one person who loves her unconditionally. A strange spiral of events unfold, and will keep you guessing until the end.