Welcome to the Scouse Press book shop

Please use the scroll bar below to browse our book collection. Please click on books (where available) for further details.

Title

Click book for details
Description

LERN YERSELF SCOUSE: The famous five volumes of Scouseology.

Vol. 1 Lern Yerself Scouse: "How to talk proper on Merseyside."

Vol. 2 Lern Yerself Scouse: "The ABZ of Scouse." by Linacre Lane.
Vol. 3 Lern Yerself Scouse: "Wersia Sensa Yuma?" by Brian Minard.

Vol. 4 Lern Yerself Scouse: "The language of Laura Norder."

Vol. 4 is now out of print and unavailable through this website

Vol. 5 Lern Yerself Scouse: In English, French, German & Japanese
Bombers over Merseyside
The 1943 official story of the Blitz
Merseyside at War
John Whitworth's post-war account of the Mersey Blitz

An Illustrated Everyday History of Liverpool

The Annals of Liverpool, with numerous additional historical illustrations: Everyday events and news from Liverpool's earliest days. The fold-out coloured cover illustrates a 1835 panoramic view of the Liverpool waterfront. This book is essential reading for those tracing their family history.

Liverpool and Slavery by "Dicky Sam"

A Scouse Press reprint of the 1884 account by Dicky Sam.

This is the celebrated 1884 account of Liverpool and the Slave Trade containing a fold-out picture of slaves packed sardine-like into the notorious slave-ship "Brookes".

The Liverpool Directory for 1766
 
Giant Panorama of Liverpool
 
Fritz Spiegl's Book of Musical Blunders and other Musical Curiosities
 
Music Through the Looking Glass
 
Keep Taking the Tabloids
What the papers say and how they say it.
The Joy of Words
 
Sick Notes

A new and unique medical browsing-book for medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.

Sick Notes received rave reviews and was awarded a British Medical Association book prize in 1996.

MuSick Notes - A Medical Song Book
This is the musical companion-volume to sick notes - music about lotions, potions, motions urges and purges.
A Small Book of Grave Humour
 
Dead Funny - Another Book of Grave Humour
 
In Word and Out Words
"A browser's guide to: Archaisms... Euphemisms...Colloquialisms... Genteelisms... Neologisms... Americanisms... Loony Leftisms... Solecisms... Idiotisms."
Media Speak/Media Write
Now out of print
Lives, Wives & Loves of The Great Composers
 
A Game of Two Halves, Brian
The language of football by Fritz Spiegl.