Preface Digital imprint: 57 books
Skin and Bones
The heart-pounding, action-packed thriller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits in a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the rampage, shooting everyone in his path before taking his own life. It is a senseless, tragic event, but sadly not an unfamiliar one.
At least, that's what everyone thinks.
Only Julia...
by Tom Bale
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
A burning summer's day explodes into violence. A murderous gang targets the exclusive south coast island of Terror's Reach, home to rival business tycoons Robert Felton and Valentin Nasenko. The residents are facing annihilation, and only one man stands a chance of saving them.
Four years ago,...
Blood Counts
(Jacquot 6)
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
When you're a cop in Marseilles, threats of violence and revenge go with the territory. Usually they come to nothing, but when friends and colleagues start turning up dead it soon becomes clear that someone from Jacquot's past has a score to settle and intends to see it through.
But this killer...
by Michael Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town...
by Sean Coughlan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This is a quirky, amusing, information-packed book for all lovers of sleep. It's a celebration of nature's greatest free gift, the perfect companion for the bedside table. It's the book to curl up with before falling asleep.
It looks at the history, culture, folklore, language and science of...
Mother India at Home
Recipes Pictures Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 and specialises in dishes such as ginger and green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils, and Delhi-style Scottish lamb, all cooked fresh to order, reflecting Mother India owner Monir Mohammed’s...
Lyttelton's Britain
A User's Guide to the British Isles as heard on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue team of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, in the company of their esteemed chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, have been recording their BBC radio show around the UK for longer than any of them can remember ... that's about a week - or twenty minutes in the...
The Trains Now Departed
Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to…well,...
I Am Justice
A Journey Out of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from...
Frenzy!
How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities.
It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years...
St George
Let's Hear it For England!
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Pope Gelasius, who canonized St George in 494, described him as one of those 'whose names are rightly reverenced among us, but whose actions are known only to God.' The story of England's Patron Saint is so encased in myth and legend that the truth of his remarkable life is unknown to the great majority...
Tommy Cooper All In One Joke Book
Book Joke, Joke Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
My wife is a magician, yesterday she turned our car into a tree.
A big white horse walks into a pub. The barman says, 'we have a drink named after you.' The horse says, 'what? Eric?'
I said, 'waiter, what's that in my soup?' he said, 'I'd better call the boss, I can't tell one insect...
For Love and Courage
The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914 - 1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Lt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his King and country. He was shot...
by Emma Burstall
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
A swanky new gym has opened in leafy south-west London. Four women bond over push-ups and Pilates and become firm friends.
Percy likes sorting out other people's problems, but her own life is a shambles, with a terrible secret addiction. Can she kick it and win back the love of her husband?
Patrice,...