In 14th century plague devastated Chesterfield the curse of Wendela the witch causes the spire of the town's church to become crooked and twisted, and souls to be Moonwraith enslaved. The last of the snowmen take us into the near future; global warming has all but wiped them out until an SOS is sent to a Professor of snowology. In Victorian England, a young man's 'freaky' lizard features make him a star of the new sporting craze, football. A Wizard boy in a whirl goes on a quest to the mythical Turquoise Town, meeting a host of weird and wonderful characters along the way. A spellbinding collection of fairy tales, by turns enchanting, magical, Goth and Grimm. Beautifully illustrated by Paul McCaffrey From the author of If the Kids are United www.manutdbooks.com

Like a real life field of dreams Alf Hyslop built it - the Grey Topper music venue in Jacksdale, an obscure Nottinghamshire pit village - and they came - glam kings Sweet, Mud, Bay City Rollers, Hot Chocolate, soul legends Ben E king, Geno Washington, Edwin Starr, reggae greats Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff, heavy metal acts UFO, Judas Priest, Saxon. Then came the punk rock and new wave explosion - The Stranglers, The Vibrators, UK Subs, The Members, The Ruts, Angelic Upstarts, Ultravox, Adam and the Ants, The Pretenders, Toyah, The Specials, Simple Minds. Inevitably with punk, violence flared, culminating in the Angelic Upstarts riot gig that has gone down in Jacksdale folklore. The Palace and the Punks tells the amazing, hilarious (imagine a 1970's Phoenix Nights if Top of the Pops was filmed there), and occasionally sad, true story of the Grey Topper, centred around its last rise and fall and pogo in 1979. From the same author of the acclaimed If the Kids are United. www.manutdbooks.com