Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
Every Chart Topper Tells a Story
The Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The glorious sixties were a decade for the young and rebellious, of cultural freedom and of sexual liberation. The British music scene had never been so adventurous, taking even the American charts by storm.
Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story: The Sixties takes a look at the number-one hit singles...
In the Shadow of Papillon
Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught.
The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the...
Every Chart Topper Tells a Story
The Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The seventies witnessed great changes not only in dress style but also in music. The psychedelia of the late sixties had mutated into glam rock by the early seventies, while the latter half of the decade is best remembered for the punk and disco explosions which gripped both Britain and America.
The...
The Gangster's Wife
An Empire Built on Cards
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
For almost four decades, Margaret 'Mags' McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband, Tam, the notorious 'Licensee', amassed a fortune by leading a safe-cracking gang before masterminding a spectacular £50-million drugs racket.
Mags was a devotee of Tarot cards and fortune telling, so when...
Broke Through Britain
One Man's Penniless Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
During the summer of 1998, Peter Mortimer set off on the 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, accompanied only by his King Charles spaniel. He took no money and had no transport or pre-arranged accommodation. Bereft of the basics necessary for human existence, such as food and shelter, he was dependent for his survival on his own wits, the generosity of others and good fortune.
A Fine Day for a Hanging
The Real Ruth Ellis Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's...
Nothing Like a Dame
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
'How did I end up here?' A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theatre in London's West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK's most successful plays.
In Nothing Like a Dame, Elaine reflects on a 50-year journey that took her to the peak...
by Matt Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Every week for much of the year, millions of Brits view and vote on Strictly Come Dancing, with the salsa being one of the most popular dances. Dark, enticing Afro-Caribbean rhythms; moving bodies gently interlaced, responding to the music: at first sight, salsa dancing seems to recover something...
Polly
The True Story Behind Whisky Galore
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides. The events which followed became the stuff of folklore, and resulted in the famous fiction of Whisky Galore. But what really happened ... ?
Someone To Watch Over Me
The True Tale of a Survivor Haunted by the Demons of Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
'It is my dearest hope that this book will allow me to reach out to others in pain and give them hope, for they too can choose to be a survivor.'
Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents attracted sympathy from the outside world, but no one knew of the horrific abuse their daughter was...
Warrior
A True Story of Bravery and Betrayal in the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Warrior is the powerful true story of a British soldier's heroism during the Iraq War that reveals how he was ruthlessly sacrificed by the Establishment.
Captain Tam Henderson was adopted as a baby in Glasgow. His family moved to England and he grew up on a violent council estate in Birmingham....
Mad Mitch's Tribal Law
Aden and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government. Crater had come to symbolise Arab nationalist defiance...
Odd-Shaped Balls
Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what kind of tortured mind would invent an oval ball? Of course, it helps if you know the rules and don't...
The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw
The Robin Friday Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. He never did. Robin Friday was a brilliant player who could have played in the top flight. He never did.
Why? Because Robin Friday was a man who would not bow down to anyone, who refused to take life seriously and...