Constable imprint: 254 books
Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups
New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war with Iraq. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses...
The Lost Legions of Fromelles
The Mysteries Behind one of the Most Devastating Battles of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered...
Heads Up
My Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
'Alan's book is like his game: incisive, thoughtful, intelligent and consistently hits the target' Gary Lineker
'A brilliant, articulate, thoughtful man with a wonderful sense of humour: Smudge encapsulates all he is and knows in this fantastic book that will capture the hearts of every football...
Hitler's British Slaves
Allied POWs in Germany 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape.
Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held as Prisoners of War...
by Sarah Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Secret Diary of a 1970s Secretary is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her loft. Working as a secretary for the BBC at the time, Sarah's diary describes the life of a suburban girl who certainly wasn't 'swinging' but who was, ironically,...
Sir Francis Walsingham
Courtier in an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for allowing the exile in England of Mary...
The Uncrowned Kings of England
The Black Legend of the Dudleys
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troubled centre of court and council. During those years the Dudleys were never far from controversy. Three of them were executed for treason. They were universally condemned as scheming, ruthless, over-ambitious...
Honoured By Strangers
Captain Cromie's Extraordinary First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
For many years the story of Cromie has been overshadowed by histories of the greater tragedy found on the Western Front in World War I. Yet, like T E Lawrence, Cromie's individual exploits reveal a classic British hero: noble, tenacious and beloved by all who served under him. Churchill called him...
by Michael Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Barcelona, 1912. A city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting, many were killed, and afterwards, even more...
by Michael Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series.
Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there something for the local police? Well, yes and no. The local police are answerable to the International...
by Julie Wassmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
'What Colin Dexter did for Oxford, Julie Wassmer is intent on doing for Whitstable' Daily Mail
Pearl Nolan always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career and instead she built up a successful seafood restaurant in her coastal home town of...
Can I Carry Your Bags?
The Life of a Sports Hack Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has covered sporting events all over the world, including cricket and tennis in Australia, golf in America, Formula One in Kuala Lumpur, boxing in Cairo, petanque in Gran Canaria, beach...
by Quentin Letts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Throughout the New Labour years - that decade of deceit, that era of wretched wriggle - the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts has maintained a lonely, vehement vigil. Like a lone clay pigeon shot squinting through his sights at a sky black with targets, he has fired his daily bullets at the poseurs and pooh-bahs...
Beyond Belief
The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Coinciding with Pope Benedict XVIs state visit to the UK in September 2010. David Yallop, author of In God's Name, looks at the current news stories concerning widespread child abuse by priests and shows how the Vatican is not telling the full story.
Praise for In God's Name:
'A thriller...