Nigel: 1192 books
Great Gambling Scams
True Stories of the World's Most Amazing Hustlers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
For many, gambling is a roller coaster of wins and losses, but for some, it's the successful way to a life of untold wealth and luxury. Contained in this utterly gripping book are the secrets of a handful of people who have repeatedly managed to beat casinos and bookies at their own game, carrying...
The Memoirs of a Birmingham Policeman (1975-2005)
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is about a an ordinary man who decided that he wanted to be part of a team that bought safety to the streets of Birmingham and so he decided in 1975 as a young man of 24 years to become a policeman and so joined the team.
He was a member of that team for thirty years until he retired...
The Forgotten Trade
Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade From the Minor Ports of England 1698-1725
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
`I pray people will read this richly detailed and absorbing book, with its vivid renaissance of a matter most of us English seem to have wished into oblivion. ' John Fowles Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The Mafia began on a small island in the Mediterranean, Sicily. It grew to become a major political force in Italy, while its tentacles penetrated every aspect of life in the United States. Through drugs, it spread its influence to Britain, Canada and Australia. And through the gangster movies of Hollywood,...
Being Davina
The Biography of Britain's Best-Loved TV Star
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Reason to be afraid - over 50 unsolved cases of serial murder
Fact: murderers and serial killers do not always get caught. Behind every headline of a newsworthy conviction lie other cases of vicious murderers who got away, and who remain somewhere among us. Here in one giant volume are more...
by Nigel Tranter
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Ardrinish Bay, on the west coast of Kintyre, is well known for wild fowl, waders and sea birds. Some of the locals have always exercised their rights to shoot wild fowl between low and high tide marks. The bird population also attracts bird-watchers. Inevitably, this led to a conflict...
by Nigel Tranter
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Iain Findlater was a news editor on the Daily Courier in London. While covering a conference in Edinburgh, he arranged to stay in an hotel in Craigmouth so that he could visit the nearby Craigmouth Bay to see the abundant bird life there. It was hardly twenty miles east of Edinburgh, on...
Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
From Ancient Rome to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members. Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution...
Michael Elphick
The Great Pretender
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Michael Elphick was a young electrician working at the Chichester Theatre when he was discovered by Laurence Olivier, who arranged for him to join the Central School of Drama. It was here where he met Bruce Robinson, who would later cast him in one of the most popular British films of all time –...
A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien
A comprehensive introduction to the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
A very readable overview of Tolkien and his work, incorporating a brief biography, an examination of the books and a look at the process of filming his work, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga. It explores how Tolkien's background as a medievalist and linguist informed the languages...
by Nigel McCrery
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
There have been many books written on the SAS, most telling of individual events in the Regiment's history. This book tells the full story, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa in World War II to present action in the Middle East. You'll get an inside look at modern selection and training and the...
Warrior Elite
31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In the bunker, the Führer still believed he could win the war. The Russian Red Army was ruthlessly rolling from the east towards the gates of Berlin. Overhead, British and American bombers were attacking in force. While outside, the corpses of dead German deserters were hanging from the lamp-posts....