Best Selling Books by Tom Palmer

Roy Race is living the dream. After all, how many 16-year-olds get to play up front for their favourite football team? Except life as Melchester Rovers’ new star striker isn’t easy. Everyone’s looking at him differently, social media is a nightmare, and Rovers are still stuck at the bottom of the league. All that, and he’s still got to go to college, help out at home, and coach his little sister Rocky’s football team. If he’s going to cope, Roy better learn to be a team player – and fast....

Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach. But every day at school is a trial for Ben, as he struggles to hide a huge secret from his teachers and classmates. Ben''s secret is starting to affect his game - can he swallow his pride and ask for help before he sidelines himself - for good?

Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenalin-rush of a case they won''t close for years. A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero - a Leeds United football hooligan. A single woman finds her frustrations with men confirmed speed-dating in a city re-invented as a party capital. Bringing together fiction from some of the city''s most celebrated writers, The Book of Leeds traces the unique contours that fifty years of social and economic change can impress on a city. These are stories that take place at oblique angles to the larger events in the city''s history, or against wider currents that have shaped the social and cultural landscape of today''s Leeds: a modern city with both problems and promise.

Roy Race is a totally normal 16-year-old. He just happens to be the best striker in Melchester, too... Roy’s always dreamed of becoming a professional footballer and playing for Melchester Rovers, the team he’s supported his entire life, but he never thought he’d get a chance - until now. Rovers are on the lookout for new players, but is Roy good enough to catch the scout’s eye? He’ll have to be fitter, stronger and more determined than ever - but if he’s going to become Roy of the Rovers, now’s the time!

Action-packed finale to an enthralling trilogy of spine-tingling spooky adventures with a sporty twist, from a master of footie fiction for kids.

When the Gelderd End sings ''If you''re proud to be a Leeds fan clap your hands'' you clap your hands . . . but should you? Leeds United Football Club have one of the worst reputations in the country. For years the fans and players - fairly or unfairly - have been associated with thuggery. In If You''re Proud to be a Leeds Fan Tom Palmer tries to work out just why he claps and why, when he has to miss a home game for work, he feels so bad. Set in the 2001-02 Premiership season, the author follows Leeds United at stadiums home and away, in bars watching satellite, listening to Radio Leeds and Radio Five Live and watching the pages of Ceefax. He focuses as much on the fans as on the action on the pitch and tries to establish whether Leeds fans and players are really so bad. The book examines the highs and lows of the club''s recent history and their impact on the supporters - from the Paris riot in 1975 to relegation in 1982 and the glory of the 1992 League win. Palmer discusses the Bowyer-Woodgate trial, the board''s plans to take Leeds United away from Elland Road, the controversial replacement of manager David O''Leary with Terry Venables, and the club''s persistent hooliganism problems, especially the fans'' unceasing hatred of Manchester United. If You''re Proud to be a Leeds Fan tries to explain why, in the face of so many reasons why you shouldn''t, you still find yourself clapping. The book includes Leeds poet Tony Harrison''s poem ''v.''.

Rocky takes over! A struggling student and brilliant footballer, Rocky Race is many things, but to most people she''s just Roy Race''s little sister. It''s not much fun – especially as Melchester Rovers head to the League Cup Final. Rocky''s sick of everyone knowing her through Roy, she''s had enough of school, and she''s even started having panic attacks. Now it''s up to Rocky to find her own way – as a person and a player – and she''s going to need all her grit and determination to do it...

A funny and heartwarming story about a girl and her pet cat, who becomes a World Cup celebrity There''s a football challenge at Yusra''s school and everyone wants to win. Which class can find the best way to predict England''s World Cup results? Yusra has an idea - her pet cat Gus could help As Gus keeps guessing the scores right, the word spreads and soon everyone wants a piece of the famous football cat. But is the life of a celebrity as purrfect as it seems? The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features well-loved authors, classic characters and favorite topics, so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. It''s the first step towards a lasting love of reading. Level 3 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for fluent readers who are beginning to read exciting, challenging stories independently. Varied sentences Detailed illustrations to enjoy Chapters Interesting characters and themes A rich range of vocabulary More complex storylines to stretch confident readers All Reading Ladder titles are developed with a leading literacy consultant, making them perfect for use in schools and for parents keen to support their children''s reading.

This volume collects over five hundred pages of Star Wars adventures from the classic era of the original films! Luke Skywalker and his Rebel friends battle the oppressive Empire in stories set shortly before and after the galaxy’s restoration to a New Republic in Return of the Jedi. This volume collects Marvel Comics’ Star Wars #68–#85, as well as the original four-issue adaptation of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi!

Stories from the classic era of the original Star Wars films! Return to the great adventures of your youth, or discover a part of the Star Wars saga you never knew existed. From 1977 to 1986, Marvel Comics produced monthly Star Wars comics. This was when the continuity for that galaxy far, far away was still brand new, when almost anything could happen—and often did! This third volume of Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago.... collects issues #50–#67 of the Marvel run—nearly five hundred pages of action and adventure at a bargain price!

Presents estimates for the number of full-time and part-time employees who are trade union members in UK.

Football meets fantasy in this second title of Tom Palmer''s action-packed Wings trilogy. High-end production includes perforated jacket-flaps with plane models to cut out, assemble and collect. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+ Greg is only happy when he''s active - on the pitch or on his phone, it doesn''t matter. But as soon as training''s over or his host parent Steve takes the phone away, he''s on edge. Steve suggests that Greg do something quiet with him, like making one of Steve''s beloved Airfix kits. And the next thing Greg knows, he''s in the cockpit of a Spitfire, being forced out of the sky by a German pilot! Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

When Danny Harte finds out there''s been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favourite club, City, he''s furious - the fans were about to buy it themselves. The club is being secretive and Danny is determined to find out what''s going on - until he''s caught staking out the club by the police and cautioned. His parents are furious, and his friends too. No one is talking to him. But when Danny discovers Adam, a kid from Ghana, dumped by his agent who''d promised him a place as a junior at City, and lost in a foreign country he knows nothing about, Danny realizes there are worse ways of being alone. He decides to take Adam''s story to the press - with terrifying consequences for them both . . .

The Hulk has been blamed for the televised murder of a little boy, which means that Bruce Banner and his alter ego are now at the top of the Most Wanted list. This volume, which collects volumes 34 to 39 of The Incredible Hulk, is just the start of this epic story line, courtesy of writer Bruce Jones, penciler John Romita Jr and inker Tom Palmer.

Everyone in Halifax is freaked out when circles of scorched earth start appearing on the moors, in the parks and even in the football stadium. When Seth sees one circle appear - and smells the stink of burning flesh - he and his friend Nadiya set out to discover the dark history behind the mysterious forces attacking the town. Can two football-mad kids stop an endless cycle of supernatural suffering?

It''s meant to be a stress-free holiday in London, but suddenly Seth and Nadiya will need all their skills as Defenders. Ghostly activity is threatening a Premier League football club as they build their new stadium on the site of Roman ruins. One worker has already met a grisly death, and many other lives are now in danger. The horror of modern injustice seems to have woken the spirits of the past, so what can the Defenders do to change things?

Borderlands is no ordinary school - all of the students boarding there have parents in the armed forces, and the UK is drawing perilously close to war in the Middle East. New boy Woody is desperate to escape the school and find his way to his dad''s military base, but his dad has been mobilised. He''s gone. Worried and unhappy, Woody turns to the only thing that could help get him through - rugby.

The Squad have been summoned to the deadly and frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister who has heard of their growing reputation as brilliant young spies. An unknown criminal is trying to hijack a world conference about the precious and much fought-over fuels that lie below the arctic ice. To prevent an international war breaking out, Lily, Lesh, Hatty, Adnan and Kester go undercover to find out who it is and stop them. But the beauty of the icy mountains and deep fjords hide some dangerous secrets and someone will do anything to make sure that the Squad don''t discover them...

The Squad - kickass teenage spies with the perfect cover. They are also part of an England youth football team. Wherever trouble is kicking off, the Squad are sent in. They''re more than a match for any kind of enemy. In the first book in this exciting new series from Foul Play author Tom Palmer, the Squad are sent to Krakow, Poland just before the Euro 2012 tournament there.

The past keeps coming back to haunt Captain America. The Sentinel of Libery has been on the job since World War II. And during those 65 years, Cap has accumulated a lot of adversaries. But the haunting memory of his young partner, Bucky Barnes, who died as Cap watched helpessly during the waning days of World War II, is perhaps his most insidious foe. Now, a new wild card enters the mix: Aleksander Lukin, a former Soviet Cold Warrior who''s resurfaced as the head of the multinational Kronas Corporation. What is Lukin''s master plan? Is he the puppet master, or is someone pulling his strings? Can Captain America defeat a man who holds power over reality itself in the palm of his hand? And what price must Cap pay for the sins of his past?