Mckay: 565 books
The Lost World of Bletchley Park
An illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The huge success of Sinclair’s The Secret Life of Bletchley Park – a quarter of a million copies sold to date – has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking....
The Lady in the Cellar
Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house, well-kept and hospitable, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this very ordinary veneer, there was a murderous darkness at its heart.
On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident, Matilda Hacker, was uncovered by chance...
The Secret Life of Fighter Command
The men and women who beat the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler’s armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the country’s safety from invasion. The men and women of Fighter Command worked tirelessly in air bases...
Secret Service Brainteasers
Do you have what it takes to be a spy?
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Sinclair McKay's Bletchley Park Brainteasers was the runaway quiz book bestseller of 2017, now it's time to pit your wits against the secret heroes of MI5 and MI6 and find out if YOU have what it takes to be a spy!
If you cracked the GCHQ Puzzle Book and followed the Ordnance Survey Puzzle...
by ann marie mckay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
a story with pictures of growing up during the baby boomer years and the changes that have taken place.
From The Kaiser To Weimar
THE NAZIS, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile, in Holland. The Hohenzollern Empire was dead and it was a difficult thing for the German people to...
Murder Capital
Life and Death on the Streets of Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Murder Capital of Europe: that's Glasgow. A city more lethal than London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Dublin or strife-torn Belfast. But what's the truth behind the headlines, the real story on the streets of Glasgow? And who has earned the city its shocking and brutal reputation? Murder Capital leads...
Jungle Tracks
Australian armour in Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
What was it like to sit in the drivers' and gunners' seats of the Australian tanks and armoured personnel carriers that fought in the Vietnam War? Jungle Tracks takes us into the thick of the battles, the ambushes and the horrendous mine incidents that claimed the lives of so many Australian soldiers.
Veterans...
Ukulele
The World's Friendliest Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
These days the ukulele is experiencing a revolution-both as a valid instrument that can sweetly transform pop music and rock and roll, and as the focus of dozens of clubs springing up across the world. Ukulele! brings the "uke" world to light, exposing its colorful history, quirky characters,...
by Don McKay
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
From one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon – as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.
by Don McKay
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This extraordinary book is a celebration –of the quirky plenitude of nature, and of the deep rhythms of family life. Don McKay writes with great technical panache. But his attention to what he loves is so constant and so generous that we are left, not with mere virtuosity, but with a world renewed.
by John J. McKay
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The fascinating saga of solving the mystery of this ancient animal who once roamed the north country—and has captivated our collective imagination ever since.
Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during...
by Esther McKay
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
'Day after day my life was consumed by killings, distress and gruesome sites, each one adding another piece to an ever-growing mosaic that seemed to be made up of bloodied disposable gloves, plastic bags and human waste. . ." When Esther McKay, an idealistic young constable with the NSW police, entered...
The Everything Practice Interview Book
Make the best impression - and get the job you want!
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Being highly qualified for a job isn't enough to get the competitive edge in today's job market - a candidate needs to ace the interview as well. Career planning expert Dawn Rosenberg McKay gives you the best answers to more than 200 of the toughest interview questions, such as:
What are your...