LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john orton

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  • He Wears A Blue Bonnet
    John Orton
    Malky Dalgleish and four highland Scots, who befriend him on the battlefield at Dunbar, arrive in South Sheels in November 1650, as indentured servants to work in the salt-panns. After Cromwell’s victory in the battle, they had been marched from Dunbar to Durham in the infamous death march, the survivors of which were sold by General Haselrig; mostly to work in the colonies in ...
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    16,91 €

  • A Chill Wind Off The Tyne
    John Orton
    A Chill Wind off the Tynefirst takes you back to the early 1900s in the Tyneside town of South Shields (Sooth Sheels to the locals). Amin and Ali, Yemeni seamen, arrive on the quayside and feel the bite of the north-east wind. The influx of the Arabs has begun. Their story is one of many that takes you from bare foot street urchins, fish and vegetable hawkers, young lads workin...
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    15,37 €

  • Blitz PAMs
    John Orton
    Britain in September 1940 has seen the retreat from Dunkirk, and the entry of Italy into the War. The RAF has withstood all that the Luftwaffe could throw at it in the Battle of Britain, but the German Blitzkrieg is just starting. The first bombing raids have hit South Shields and the town prepares for worse to come. The Police need more young PAMs (Police Auxiliary Messengers)...
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    10,29 €

  • The Five Stone Steps
    John Orton
    Tom Duncan, a Scot, joins the South Shields Police fresh from the trenches after the Great War. Little does he realise, when he first walks down the five stone steps into Keppel Street Police HQ (pictured opposite), that fifty years later he will be writing his memoirs at his desk by the fire, a glass of malt at hand. He tells of his early days as a bobby on the beat in Shields...
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    20,02 €

  • The Beeston Ghost
    John Swaffield Orton
    Step back in time to a chilling Victorian era with 'The Beeston Ghost' by John Swaffield Orton. This classic ghost story transports readers to a haunted house filled with eerie shadows and unexplained phenomena. As the mystery unfolds, the line between the natural and supernatural blurs, leaving you questioning what lurks in the darkness. Experience a suspenseful journey into t...
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    14,77 €