Books by Ken Smith

Newcastle's colourful and sometimes dramatic history is brought to life in this series of varied tales spanning several hundred years. Including some of the most fascinating accounts from his previous books, Newcastle author and historian Ken Smith presents a selection of truelife stories from the city's stirring past.

A bumper collection of the decade's funniest stories, as published every day in The Herald's 'Diary' column, gathered together for you to enjoy all over again.

A second humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of local characters from the author''s early life in the South Wales Valleys. By the author of the very popular and funny Tales from My Welsh Village (Y Lolfa, 2018), now in its fourth impression.

Comprehensive guide to what remains of the North East's Mining Heritage

A selection of the year's funniest stories published every day in The Herald's `Diary' column, gathered together for you to enjoy all over again.

Presents a survey in English that covers all the main trends in South African historiography. This book highlights the break with the past that historians of the "new radical school" have made in the last 15 years, and surveys the position of historical writing to the present.

The poems in this collection are not about something else. Rather, in the words of James Joyce, each poem is "the transient, constantly displaced, forever disappearing thing itself."

Ken Smith was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. This collection includes his last poems as well as other uncollected work, along with tributes from other poets, photographs, a biographical portrait and interviews covering the whole range of his life and work.

This is the story of Lord W.G. Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900) inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong Gun.