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It's Been Quite a Couple of Weeks!
Here at Words Are Life, we've published 3 very different books. Click on the covers to find out more, and to purchase.

Lesley Atherton
Jul 30, 20221 min read


Our Book On The Legal Aspects Of The Hillsborough Disaster - Now OUT in Paperback!
Our Book On The Legal Aspects Of The Hillsborough Disaster - Now OUT in Paperback!

Lesley Atherton
Jul 16, 20221 min read


The Hillsborough Tragedy Is Revisited In David Holding's BRAND NEW Book With Words Are Life
David Holding's book on the events of 15th April 1989 and the Hillsborough legal battle and inquests.

Lesley Atherton
Jul 15, 20221 min read


What Do Coronavirus, Euthanasia & Eyewitness Evidence Have In Common?
David Holding, that's what. Our most prolific writer, David Holding, has been extra-prolific this last year or so. His books: Live Or Let...

Lesley Atherton
Jul 5, 20221 min read


Crime in Bolton - Do Things Really Change?
Blog by David Holding, author of 'The Dark Figure' and other local history and non-fiction titles published by Words are Life / Scott...

David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Malicious Intent - Harold Shipman
Blog by David Holding, author of Doctors in the Dock and The Last Temptation. Harold Shipman was an English doctor who killed an...

David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Lancashire's Murky Past?
Blog by David Holding, author of many non-fiction and local history titles for Words are Life. An interesting feature appeared in the...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Intention in Cases of Assisted Dying (John Bodkin Adams)
Blog by David Holding, author of 'Doctors in the Dock' and 'The Trial of Dr John Bodkin Adams' Reliance on the existence of medical...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20213 min read


Wow - a Real Witch's House?
Blog by David Holding, author of “The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612". An interesting article appeared in the Lancashire press in December...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Review of '344 A Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster' by Andrea Jane Finney
Below is a review of a book published in 2011 about the Pretoria Pit Disaster which appeared in Wigan Heritage Service’s Bulletin "PAST...
Lesley Atherton
Jan 26, 20212 min read


A Glimpse of Life on Winter Hill
Blog by David Holding, author of “Murder in the Heather” The Winter Hill Murder of 1838". Travelling up the Winter Hill road towards...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20213 min read


Forensic Anthropologists - What They Do
The role a Forensic Anthropologist plays in a death investigation is crucial to the field of forensic science as a whole. ...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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