Preface Digital imprint: 57 books
Hollywood Hellraisers
The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando
'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.' Dennis Hopper
'The...
Grumpy Old Rock Star
and Other Wondrous Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick.
Rick was a likeable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making...
An A-Z of Hellraisers
A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city; to W. C. Fields, who passed critical...
by Katie Nicholl
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Katie Nicholl, Royal Correspondent for the Mail on Sunday, has been at the centre of royal reporting since she joined the newspaper in 2001. There is no one who is more intimately acquainted with the lives and loves of Princes William and Harry. Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to William...
by Fiona Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
She was the Princess Diana of her day. Her story the English Gone With The Wind.
She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and decorated.
Instead,...
The Nightingale Girls
(Nightingales 1)
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow...
The Dangerous Book for Middle-Aged Men
A Manual for Managing Mid-Life Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
So your husband/boyfriend/partner (delete as necessary) has just tipped over 35/40/45/50 (delete as necessary) and you can see that he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson and he's bought a home gym - the...
When Ziggy Played Guitar
David Bowie, The Man Who Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
And then there was David Bowie, the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils, the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience, the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist....
Bernard Buffet
The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable to paint because of a fall in which he had...
One Man’s Everest
The Autobiography of Kenton Cool
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Kenton Cool is the finest alpine climber of this generation. His accomplishments are staggering. He has summited Everest twelve times. He is the first person in history to climb the three Everest peaks, the so-called Triple Crown, in one climb, a feat previously thought impossible. He was nominated...
Beyond a Joke
Inside the Dark World of Stand-up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Beyond a Joke is a celebration of comedy - one of the modern world's most dominant and compelling art forms - but it is also the story of comedy's dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some of light entertainment's biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring insight from...
by Rick Wakeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer...
The Frood
The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
As a wise ape once observed, space is big – vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope...
by Fiona Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. Well-known for being warm, chatty and down to earth, she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham. For over twelve years she presented GMTV, during which time she interviewed some of the most...