Books

Now Departing from Platform 54: A 32-year Long Railway Journey by Douglas Tetlow is a set of memoirs tracing his journey through his childhood, into developing an interest in railways upon his moving to Euxton, Chorley in 1968. His new home was close to the West Coast Main Line, being the catalyst to his interest. The memoirs continue with...

Pride of the Red Devils: the untold story of the men and women who made the Manchester United heroes of Wembley 1968. The book tells the histories of the famous Manchester United team who beat Benfica 4-1 at Wembley in May 1968, from the viewpoint of their genealogical, social, occupational and military history of their ancestors. It takes the...

Pride of the Dons is the sixth book in Derek Niven’s fascinating Pride Series of footballing biographies. It tells the story of 16 young men and their manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who created history in 1983 by becoming the only Scottish club to lift two European trophies. The triumphs are woven through the social and genealogical histories of...

The Wembley Wizards of 1966

Following on from Derek Niven’s genealogical histories in his Pride Series of footballing greats, Pride of the Three Lions turns its attention to the achievements of the England team who won the FIFA World Cup at Wembley in 1966.

It tells their stories from the viewpoint of the unsung people who made them, journeying...

In 2084, Planet Earth was utterly destroyed by a rogue comet and around 25,000 surviving humans were transported to Capitol Base on Mars. These humans included Ewan and Jill Sinclair. Their son Jack Crossan Sinclair is the first Martian child born on Mars and graduates as a geologist. He leads a project to conduct geological surveys to find...

In 2048 BCE, the ancient Egyptian ruler Mentuhotep II of the Upper Kingdom of Mizraim campaigns to overtake the Lower Kingdom and become Supreme Pharaoh of all Egypt. At the same time, the last few Bor-ak survivors of the destroyed Red Planet, which the Egyptians called Horus, were coming for one last fly-by of the Blue Planet, before heading...

Following on from Derek Niven’s first book in the ‘Pride Series’, Pride of the Lions, a genealogical history of the Lisbon Lions, he turns his attention to the great football managers Scotland has produced in Pride of the Jocks. Once again, this book is not just about the footballing achievements of Scotland’s greatest managers. It tells the...

HEROES OF MORE THAN A FOOTBALL FIELD

Continuing Derek Niven’s popular and successful ‘Pride Series’, Pride of the Hearts tells the fateful and tragic histories of the 16 Hearts players who signed up for McCrae’s Battalion, the 16th Royal Scots, during the Great War. Learn of the desperate battles they fought on the Somme and at Arras, too many...

Following on from Derek Niven’s genealogical histories of the Lisbon Lions and the great Scottish football managers, he turns his attention to the heroes of Rangers European Cup Winners Cup victory. Like its predecessors this book is not just about the footballing achievements of that famous Rangers team; it tells the story of the unsung people...

This book stands as a humble tribute to all the men and women who helped shape the Rangers players who won the ECWC in Barcelona on that May night in 1972, in this the 50th anniversary of that famous victory. Following on from Derek Niven’s genealogical histories of the Lisbon Lions and the greatest Scottish football managers, he turns his...

Following on from Derek Niven’s first book in the ‘Pride Series’, Pride of the Lions, a genealogical history of the Lisbon Lions, he turns his attention to the great football managers Scotland has produced in Pride of the Jocks. Once again, this book is not just about the footballing achievements of Scotland’s greatest managers. It tells the...

Derek Niven sets out to tell the history of the Lisbon Lions from a completely new slant. This book is not just about an immortalised game of football which took place on 25 May 1967 in the Estádio Nacionale in Lisbon. It seeks to tell the story of the unsung men and women who made the 16 players that are the Lisbon Lions through the...

2084 The End of Days is the story of 5 men and 2 women brought together in mankind’s struggle for survival when an apocalyptic comet enters the solar system and is set to destroy planet earth in May 2084.