BOOKS BY ADAM HARDAKER
Different worlds. Different stories. All rooted in people.
From football terraces and Liverpool streets to social care, neurodiversity and the dark history buried beneath a city, explore stories about the people, places and moments that stay with us.
THE BLUE SEAT CHRONICLES
Stories from the blue seats - about football, family, memory and the people who make a club more than ninety minutes on a Saturday.
Football. Memory. Love. Loss.
THE SEAT
LEFT EMPTY
Where the story began.
A story of football, love, loss and the empty seat that can hold a lifetime of memories.
THE SEATS WE
ONCE FILLED
Some loves start on a street that leads to home.
A journey through family, football, Liverpool and the memories carried from one generation to the next.
THE SEAT THAT
CHANGED THE GAME
The story moves forward.
The Blue Seat Chronicles turns towards the women's game - its history, its supporters and a new generation taking their seats.
THE HOLLOWS
Beneath the streets of Liverpool lies a darker history.
Across five interconnected stories, The Hollows follows the people, institutions and secrets a city tried to bury - and what happens when the past refuses to stay hidden.
Dark history. Buried secrets. A city that remembers.
BOOK I
THE THEATRE OF MADNESS
Where the madness began.
Liverpool. The nineteenth century. Behind the walls of The Hollows, treatment, punishment and madness become dangerously difficult to tell apart.
BOOK II
THE PHYSIC OF MEN
Some institutions were built to heal. Others were built to hide.
The institution changes, but its secrets remain. Medicine, authority and human lives collide behind doors the outside world rarely sees.
BOOK III
THE CLEANSING
Some histories aren’t forgotten.
They’re erased.
A new chapter in The Hollows' history, where progress has a darker side and the past is easier to bury than confront.
BOOK IV
THE MODERN SILENCE
By the 1970s, The Hollows belongs to another age - but old attitudes, institutional power and buried secrets have not disappeared with it.
The walls changed. The silence didn’t
BOOK V
THE REOPENING
Some doors should stay closed
Years after The Hollows closed its doors, the past is disturbed once again. What was buried there was never truly gone.
THE COMPLETE STORY
THE BURIED CHRONICLES
All five books. One complete journey through The Hollows.
Five eras. Five stories. One place that refuses to be forgotten.
The Buried Chronicles brings together the complete five-book Hollows series in one volume, following its history from its earliest darkness through to its reopening.
REGISTERED
Power. Responsibility. The reality behind social care.
Behind every care plan, inspection and policy is a person.
Registered follows Nathan Kearns into a world where doing the right thing isn't always as simple as knowing what the right thing is.
THE STORY
What happens when caring for people becomes about managing systems?
Nathan Kearns is a registered manager trying to do the right thing in a world of inspections, policies, staffing pressures and impossible decisions.
Registered looks beyond the paperwork to the people underneath it — the staff who care, the people they support, and the uncomfortable reality of what happens when responsibility, power and pressure collide.
WHY I WROTE IT
After nearly three decades working in health and social care, I wanted to write about a world rarely seen from the inside.
Not a textbook. Not a guide to social care. A story about the people doing the job — the humour, frustration, responsibility, relationships and moments that stay with you long after a shift ends.
JOE: ONE MOMENT AT A TIME
Three voices. One life. One moment at a time.
Sometimes understanding someone means seeing the same moment from a different point of view.
Joe: One Moment at a Time tells one story through three voices - Joe, his Nan, and the world around them.
THE STORY
What if the same moment could look completely different depending on who was living it?
Joe experiences the world in his own way.
Alongside him is his Nan, trying to understand, support and sometimes simply keep up. And around them is the outside world — watching the same moments through an entirely different lens.
Told through three perspectives, Joe: One Moment at a Time explores neurodiversity, family, misunderstanding, humour and the small everyday moments that can mean everything.
WHY I WROTE IT
I wanted to write about neurodiversity without turning it into a lesson, a diagnosis or a tragedy.
Joe is about people.
About how differently we can experience exactly the same moment - and what can happen when we stop expecting everyone to experience the world in the same way.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Pick the kind of story you're looking for.
Different books. Different worlds. There's a seat for you somewhere.
Stories about the people beside us, the places we return to and the memories we carry.
FOOTBALL, FAMILY & MEMORY
DARK HISTORY & MYSTERY
Five eras. Buried secrets. A Liverpool institution that refuses to stay in the past.
The people behind the paperwork, the responsibility and the decisions nobody sees.
SOCIAL CARE & PEOPLE
The same moments experienced through different eyes - with family, humour and understanding at its heart.
NEURODIVERSITY & FAMILY
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