Ebury Publishing: 2512 books
Reg Harris
The rise and fall of Britain's greatest cyclist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Reg Harris, whose statue overlooks the Manchester Velodrome, is the legend who all track cyclists want to emulate. He was a poor, working-class boy born in the Depression who escaped the Lancashire mills to utterly dominate his sport. He triumphed as world champion an incredible
five times between...
Long Road from Jarrow
A journey through Britain then and now
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'A tribute and a rallying cal****l' - Guardian
Three and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls....
That's Me in the Corner
Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister. Having seen him as a talking head on TV, the boy asks, 'What are you?' It is a question so frank and simple that Andrew doesn't have an immediate answer to hand.
So,...
by Michael Simkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned, he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in lights, of holding an audience rapt, of perhaps becoming a TV heart-throb, or having someone, anyone, ask for his autograph in the supermarket....
Hope and Glory
A People’s History of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to Orgreave and Windsor, Wembley and Wootton Bassett,...
The Last Flannelled Fool
My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and...
by Yehuda Shinar
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Yehuda Shinar's secret is simple. To be a winner you need to learn to think like one. Based on scientific research carried out over the last 18 years, Yehuda Shinar has devised a set of winning behaviour principles that can be adapted and applied to any sphere of life.
Using practical advice,...
High Hopes
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This is my autobiography, the exciting story of how I, Ronald Corbett, the son of an Edinburgh baker, became convinced that I had to seek my fortune and become an actor, of how I pursued that goal, found fame on television as one of The Two Ronnies, and managed to meet a fabulous cast of extraordinary...
The People’s Songs
The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.
Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning...
Supermodel Tips
Runway secrets from the world’s top models
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
'Twist up your hair after you've washed it and let it dry like that. When you let it down, it will have a gorgeous natural wave' Naomi Campbell
‘After applying your lipstick, blot your lips with your fingers and then pat the remaining colour on your cheeks for an instant glow’ Kate Moss
'Use...
by Mark Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Mark Thomas has been touring the country for months, getting audiences to come up with policies aimed at sorting out the country's political chaos and taking back the power for the people. Sick to death of bailing out bankers and subsidising MPs homes, the audience vote on the best policy of the night...
Perfect Confidence
Overcoming Fear, Gaining Confidence and Achieving Success with Horses
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
'Some people dream of winning while others dream of losing their fears'
However ambitious or basic your goal, Kelly Marks is on hand to help you make that dream a reality. Despite major setbacks early on, Kelly Marks was determined to live a life with horses and went on to win BSJA showjumping...
No Regrets on Sunday
The Seven-Day Plan to Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Are you stuck in a rut but not sure what you should change or what else you could do? You can change your life for the better and in just one week.
No Regrets on Sunday is a 7-day plan to help you set about changing your life to find greater success and happiness.
Every day for a week...
Triumphs and Turbulence
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Chris Boardman is the 2017 winner of the Cross Sports Cycling Book of the Year for his autobiography Triumphs and Turbulence.
‘The true inspiration was that Olympic gold won by Chris Boardman in Barcelona… I was so in awe of Chris Boardman’ Sir Bradley Wiggins
You may know him...