Short Books Ltd: 21 books
David Livingstone
The legendary explorer of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Born a poor Glasgow cotton-mill worker, David grew up to become a great explorer and hero of his time.
This is his incredible story. The tough man of Victorian Britain would stop at nothing in his determination to be the first white man to explore Africa, even if it meant dragging his wife...
Queen Victoria
The woman who ruled the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 – a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it.
But in 1861 tragedy struck, when her husband Albert died. The little Queen loved dogs and cream cakes and...
Florence Nightingale
The trailblazing nurse of Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Florence knew she did not want a life of fancy clothes and parties, like the other girls. She was going to do something different – and important. But what?
In 1854, she shocked everyone. Florence set out for the Crimea to nurse soldiers injured in the war. Nothing could have prepared her...
The Story of Charles Dickens
The first celebrity writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Young Charles Dickens’s happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt and, aged 12, he was sent to work in a factory to make shoe polish.
By his mid twenties, he was on the verge of becoming the most popular novelist the world has ever known. He created hundreds...
The Story of Isambard Brunel
The man who built Briton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From tunnels and railways to bridges and ships, Isambard Kingdom Brunel would stop at nothing to realise his amazing engineering ideas.
Born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Brunel had a brilliant brain for design, and never tired of building new and exciting things – the deepest...
Ada Lovelace
The mathematical genius
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words.
Lady Byron wanted Ada to be as unlike her father as possible. Ada grew up surrounded by an army of tutors who taught her every subject every waking...
by Emma Craigie, Jonathan Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Sunday Times Bestseller
On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...
Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who orchestrated...
The Imperial Tea Party
Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.
Russia and Britain...
The Orchid Hunter
A young botanist’s search for happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.
As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo
A rather unsual memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This book is the opposite of a misery memoir and is certainly safe to give to cancer patients as a cheerful present. More importantly, it sheds new light on:
• Why Kim Kardashian is worth Keeping Up With
• What playlists to make for MRI scans
• The truth behind the legend of Medea
• Bikini...
Being Adam Golightly
One man's bumpy voyage to the other side of grief
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The cruel early death of his beloved wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly’s middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life’s screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the crappy hand of fate.
This irreverent and...
Snow
The biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
**The Financial Times' Travel Book of the Year 2018**
How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman?
Where is the snowiest place on Earth?
When will the last snowflake fall?
Snow has a lot in common with religion.
It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an...
Out of the Woods
The armchair guide to trees
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Out of the Woods takes you on a revelatory ramble through country and city - from woodlands of majestic oak and ash to mean streets lined with cherries.Containing myriad tips for recognition and rich in tree-biography and gossip, this book will enable you to tell your birch from your beech as you...
My Itchy Dog
How to keep your dog in prime health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Canine expert Kate Bendix believes that many basic health issues have become so over-medicalised that dog owners today no longer trust their instincts and feel bound to rush to the vet for even the tiniest complaint. (Did you know that 50% of vet visits are for an itch?)
In My Itchy Dog, Kate...
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