Mainstream Digital imprint: 404 books
One Hand on the Claret Jug
How They Nearly Won the Open
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Everyone remembers a winner, especially when victory comes in the oldest major golf championship in the world. But what about the players who got to the brink and then let the ancient trophy slip through their fingers? The Open has always featured triumph and disaster since it began in 1860 and this...
Mummy, Take Me Home
A Mother's Tug-of-Love Torment
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
'Mummy, take me home,' sobbed little Jasmine Chapman as she was ripped from her mother's arms. But there was nothing that Morag could do . . . except continue to fight for custody of the child she loved so much.
When their relationship ended, Jasmine's parents argued bitterly about her future....
Bible John's Secret Daughter
Murder, Drugs and a Mother's Secret Heartbreak
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims. He was being hunted for three brutal unsolved sex murders, and each of his victims had been picked up after a night...
The Underworld Captain
From Gangland Goodfella To Army Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Alexander Shannon escaped a shady past to enjoy a glittering career in the army, only to end up back in the thick of criminal activity.
Shannon's time as a soldier saw him posted to the Falklands, Northern Ireland and war-torn Bosnia. The rigours of army life took their toll and he found himself...
by Calum Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In a new edition of this classic book, introduced by the world-renowned Gaelic poet Sorley Maclean, the late Calum I. Maclean, a Gaelic-speaking Highlander, interprets the traditional background, culture and ways of life of his native country. Calum's formal training in folk culture and the depth...
Fog on the Tyne
The Story of Britain's Bloodiest Gang War
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
For more than fifty years, two ruthless gangs have dominated the Tyneside underworld. Initially, the Conroy and the Sayers families lived side by side in relative harmony in the West End of Newcastle, but the birth of the drug-fuelled rave culture in the late 1980s changed everything. Drunk on power...
100 Days On Holy Island
A Writer's Exile
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
It was the worst winter in a decade, the winter of foot-and-mouth, when island power cuts ran for up to 72 hours - and two days before Peter Mortimer's planned departure, his father died.100 DAYS ON HOLY ISLAND is a quirky and often moving account of one man's self-imposed exile to a remote island...
The Boy in the Attic
The Chilling, Real-Life Story of a Satanic Murder and the Truth that Haunts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Ireland 1973: a very different world. But a tiny village in County Dublin was about to lose its innocence for ever.
On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager...
Love Hurts
The True Story of a Life Destroyed
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
'A few seconds ago, I wanted to die. Now I know the reality is I just don't want to live. I never have from the moment I started falling, twenty-one and a half years ago. I'm alive. Shit.'
Jeff Randall originally wrote his memoir by hand, the ink spattering on the page whenever he was writing...
Chasing Lost Times
A Father and Son Reconciled Through Running
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Geoffrey Beattie is an extremely successful academic and celebrity psychologist. He was perhaps a less successful father. His obsession with his career and his driving passion for running when he was at home almost destroyed his relationship with his son, but, ironically, it is running that has brought...
Bonded by Blood
Murder and Intrigue in the Essex Ganglands
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Bernard O'Mahoney was a key member of the Essex Boys firm - one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain. In December 1995, the three leaders of the gang were executed as they sat in their Range Rover down a deserted farm track. For many, this meant that the horror of the gang's brutal reign...
Sultan In Arabia
A Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
At a time when the influence of Islam and the Arab world dominate newspaper headlines as a result of bloodshed and terrorist threats, it will come as a welcome relief to learn of Sultan Qaboos. The very term 'Sultan' conjures up shades of peacock thrones and riches beyond the dreams of avarice. This...
Burke and Hare
The Year of the Ghouls
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
'My Lord, You are aware that, at this moment, the public feeling is strongly excited against the perpetrators of the late foul and cold blooded murders that have taken place in the very centre of a populous and civilised city . . . Your Lordship is aware, that in all civilized nations, blood calls...
Manx Murders
150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
A beautiful island lying in the northern part of the Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Isle of Man was once a popular holiday destination. It is perhaps better known today for the TT motorcycle races held there, its tailless cats and Manx kippers. However, it also has its...