Mainstream Digital imprint: 404 books
Hunting People
Thirty Years of Interviews with the Famous
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Hunter Davies's first major interview was with John Masefield for The Sunday Times in 1963. In the years since, he has interviewed many of the most famous people that the late twentieth century has to offer, from James Baldwin and Orson Welles to Jack Nicholson and Salman Rushdie. in an eclectic and...
Blink
A Journey Through Gangland Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
As a young man in Glasgow's underworld, Ian 'Blink' MacDonald fought, robbed and slashed his way to the top, developing a taste for the high life along the way. His notoriety earned him an offer of work from Scotland's most feared gangster, Arthur Thompson, but MacDonald had other plans: to finance...
On The Cobbles
Jimmy Stockin: The Life Of A Bare Knuckled Gypsy Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit and ancient community really know what being a gypsy is about -how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature. Whilst football maybe the chosen...
Scots
The Mither Tongue
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and has acted as a catalyst for radical...
Durham
Over 1,000 Years of History and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The historic City of Durham is now over 1,000 years old. With its magnificent Norman Cathedral and Castle it has become a world famous tourist attraction, the outstanding importance of which was recognised in 1987 when it was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.Martin Dufferveil's book is...
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
A Boy Trapped in Hell...
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Paul Mason's father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up and naked in a tiny cupboard under the stairs of their home before sexually abusing him. This cycle of abuse continued for several years and also affected his brother. The cupboard...
The House by the Dvina
A Russian Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen...
The Trial of Jack the Ripper
The Case of William Bury (1859-89)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A shocking and brutal murder had taken place in the city in February that year, and the words 'Jack Ripper is at the back of this door' were found written in chalk on a door at the scene of the crime. When he was arrested, the accused, William Bury, admitted that he was 'afraid he would be arrested...
Monkey House Blues
A Shanghai Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before...
by Eileen Munro, Carol McKay
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. Then, when their marriage broke...
Gone
The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.23 p.m. She has never been heard from or seen again, and her disappearance is a mystery that endures to this day.
What happened...
Fighting Mac
The Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most...
Dead Men Talking
Collusion, Cover-Up and Murder in Northern Ireland's Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Following the revelations of the secret conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunmen of the Ulster Defence Association in Ten-Thirty-Three, Nicholas Davies now dramatically reveals the evidence and facts that the Sir John Stevens Inquiry is still trying to establish regarding links...
Shadows
Inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In the early hours of 30 April 2003, twelve armed and uniformed officers accompanied by four plain-clothes detectives burst into Alan Barker's house. They stayed for hours, turning over rooms, seizing documents, impounding computers, files and anything else that interested them. The family were treated...