Constable imprint: 254 books
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The Stupidest Things Ever Said Online
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
A hilarious collection of the weirdest, stupidest and most outrageous things ever said
on the internet on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, Amazon, YouTube and
even in good old-fashioned emails.
Years ago if you said or did something stupid or embarrassing, it would have remained
relatively...
The Salient
Ypres, 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.
Distinguished biographer...
An Officer and a Gentlewoman
The Making of a Female British Army Officer
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, she couldn't march; she couldn't make her bed; she couldn't even shine...
On the Front Line
True World War I Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.
It was...
Slap and Tickle
The Unusual History of Sex and the People Who Have it
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Slap and Tickle is a romp through this enduringly popular subject, embracing vivid literature, language, history, and personalities.
It covers sex in all its delightful variety, taking a light-hearted look at the biological mechanics, and drawing on the intimate true-life stories of sex-havers...
The Spirit of the Game
How Sport Made the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, and in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays- this Corinthian spirit was then exported around the world. The competitive spirit, the importance of fairness, the nobility of the gifted amateur seemed to sum...
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
Political Letters to The Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Telegraph letter writers, that most astute body of political commentators, are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years. The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to the ridiculous, lumbering from Leveson to Libya,...
by Michael Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. One of them comes down in the water but no one is hurt - except that the balloonist dies later when taken into the Naval Hospital for a check-up. But he is not the only one who had died there unexpectedly, as a letter to The Times points...
Charmers and Rogues
Pet Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This first collection of Pet Tales, compiled by former Life editor Anne Cuthbertson, features a talking dog and a surfboarding cat, a chicken that thinks it's human, a foul-tempered duck called Mussolini, a bear called Tina, and an escaped cornsnake who may still be at large under the floorboards.
Readers...
Riven
a gripping psychological thriller you won't be able to put down
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
A gripping debut psychological novel you won't want to put down.
'Assured and clever' The Sun
First he kills.
A psychologist is found brutally murdered, an addict jumps to his death and a student is found dead. These are the facts. And they are all that DIs Wheeler and Ross have.
He...
On Cricket
A Portrait of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
'A treasure of recollections and reactions, talking heroes, controversies and big themes' i paper
'Brearley is at his best in these quirky, delightful essays when he is exploring the human qualities of humbler players . . . Brearley's admiration for his friends' decency, craftsmanship and modesty...
An English Country Manner
More true stories from a Suffolk country estate
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
James Aden has his hands full when he leaves the comparative sanity of a job on an estate in Scotland when his wife inherits a farm in Suffolk. To supplement the income from the farm, he takes a job as an agent on Sir Charles Buckley's vast estate. The list of problems, and problematic characters,...
by Tony Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over the next two years in service. Brasso, Blanco & Bull is the hilarious account of life in National Service, where 23339788 Thorne faced the horrors...
by Michael Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.
The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while...