Before I began self-publishing on the Amazon KDP platform, I spent several years using another print-on-demand service, namely, Lulu.com . This website has been around for many years and is an excellent option in its own right for those interested in self-publishing - and it's free to use.
You can also purchase books via Lulu - simply browse their site and click away to your heart's content. I've published about a dozen books via them, and they can easily be found by searching their website under 'Michael Southwick' and 'Mick Southwick'. As for those of you interested in the history of Newcastle then I guess the above effort is the one most likely to catch your eye.
The Siege & Storming of Newcastle, 1644 is basically a reprint of an 1889 booklet which I have lightly edited to make it a little bit easier to read. The work is an amalgam of the many and varied sources on the great event, and provides the interested Novocastrian with an easily accessible account of the town's greatest moment of peril.
However, the Victorian scribe's turn of phrase did nothing to ease the readers' way through the labyrinth of archaic terms and phrases of the original sources in question, so I thought I'd try to make the text a bit easier to follow - hence the publication of this 40-page effort.
If you'd like to order a copy, then follow the links below. If you are prompted to set up an account with Lulu to do so, then don't worry: they're a kosher business and are easy enough to deal with.
The Siege & Storming of Newcastle, 1644 (paperback)
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