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Welcome to the Langley Press Website, designed as a space for books from this independent publisher based near Durham, England. Here are the main e-mail for the Langley Press, and the link to Simon Webb's Amazon author page:
Please contact us using the e-mail above with any queries or orders: Langley Press books can also be ordered by booksellers from suppliers like Gardners.
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The web link above will take you to Simon Webb's Amazon author page. From there, you can buy Langley Press books in paperback or Kindle e-book form. You can also follow Simon from the page, to get updates on new releases.
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Below are details of our most recent titles, and featured books. On this site, some titles may appear on more than one web-page.
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Raised in a white working-class family in Croydon, as a very young man Samuel Coleridge-Taylor became one of the most celebrated composers in the English-speaking world.
Written to mark 150 years since his birth, Simon Webb’s new biography traces SCT’s meteoric rise, the generations of neglect, and the triumphant rediscovery of this Black British genius in the 21st century.
For centuries fugitives could find shelter in the precincts of Durham Cathedral. Simon Webb’s new book tells the story of sanctuary at Durham, in the days when even killers might find protection in St Cuthbert’s church.
‘I am an agitator. My work has consisted of trying to stir up divine discontent with wrong’.
Before Keir Starmer, Labour’s seventh Prime Minister, there was Keir Hardie, the first leader of the party, born into poverty in Lanarkshire in 1856. Simon Webb’s new book re-tells the story of Hardie’s extraordinary life – the life of a man who began work in a coal-mine at the age of ten, and rose to become a formidable voice against war, injustice, inequality and imperialism.
The document below is a complete list of all our titles, with retail prices, and discount prices for booksellers and libraries. Instructions on how to use this document as an order-form are included at the top. Please click 'Pop out' at top right of the document to display it at full size. You should then be able to print it and/or download it.
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A native of Norfolk, Saint Godric of Finchale may have been a pedlar, a sailor and even a pirate before he took up the life of a hermit beside the River Wear near Durham. Simon Webb’s book tells the remarkable story of this twelfth-century holy man, setting it against the background of his turbulent times.
What do Alexander Pope, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the actor Peter Dinklage have in common? Simon Webb's new book examines the lives of notable people of short stature.
'Despite the efforts of ancient, medieval and renaissance astronomers, and the labours of Newton, Halley and the Herschels, it was a carpenter’s son from a tiny village in the north of England who first began to glimpse the true nature of the Milky Way'. Simon Webb's new book is the first standalone biography of Thomas Wright (1711-86), astronomer, garden-designer and architect of Byers Green, County Durham.
Stories, poems and essays by Simon Webb inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron and the coronavirus pandemic. Introduced by William Duggan.
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