Total Brookside: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Soap by Geoff Tibballs
Presenting a complete guide to the romances, break-ups, breakdowns, births, binges, murders, sieges, fires, scams, gnome-thefts and sundry other dramatic events of Brookside Close from November 1982. This is the book for all fans of the TV sopa Brookside. It includes a comprehensive Who's Who of Brookside, detailing the lives of all the recurring characters to have graced the serial from day one, plus family trees of all the principal clans. There is also a Where Are They Now? section, covering artistes who originally made their name on Brookside, and a series of interviews with key personnel on the show. Further sections include: celebrities in Brookside; celebrities on Brookside (famous fans give their tributes to the show); house by house family trees; Brookside vs the Press (15 years of Britain's most controversial soap); and The Writers' Meetings - showing how an episode of Brookside is written and how a character's life and fate is decided.