Portico imprint: 123 books
Kent's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Kent’s Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a strange-shaped stick at. From Chaucer’s legendary tales of debauchery...
Cycling's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Welcome to the weird, wonderful and two-wheeled world of cycling. Though this isnt the usual side of professional cycling the newspapers report. This is the real world of cycling, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the sports bizarre history! Cycling is nearly two hundred years old. The...
London's Strangest: The Thames
Extraordinary but true stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England. London's Strangest: The Thames reveals the bizarre, funny and surreal...
by Iain Spragg
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Extraordinary but true stories from 200 years of cycling history. Part of the bestselling Strangest series, Cycling’s Strangest Tales is a quirky and fascinating collection of stories from cycling’s history. Included are stories of Thomas Stevens, the doughty Englishman who circumnavigated the...
by Peter Seddon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre, macabre and sometimes hilarious criminal cases. You'll be gripped by tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Despite how unbelievable the stories banged up inside these pages may seem, Crime's Strangest...
Tennis's Strangest Matches
Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In this hugely entertaining collection of stories taken from over a hundred years of world tennis history, award-winning sports historian Peter Seddon has gathered together the most extraordinary events ever to occur on a tennis court. They include the Wimbledon final between the tea-drinking vicar...
The Angry Years
The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
What were the achievements of the angry writers who emerged in the fifties? Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week that Was and Private Eye. Their satire and irreverence aroused enthusiasm in man, and a new anti-Establishment mood developed...
Paul Sinha's Real British Citizenship Test
Everything you need to know to call yourself British
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Since 2005, well over one million prospective immigrants have attempted to cement permanent residency in the UK by taking the Home Office-devised ‘Life in the UK’ test. With questions such as ‘What is the name of the admiral who died in a sea battle in 1805 and has a monument in Trafalgar Square,...
There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar
A History of the world in 100 limericks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth And what made its characters tick. There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar is 100 lively and humorous limericks that take us back to before the beginning of time itself and right up until...
London's Underworld
Three Centuries of Vice and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
London’s Underworld takes us on the nightmarish last journeys of condemned criminals to the gallows at Tyburn. We enter death-trap eighteenth century prisons, one of which the novelist Henry Fielding described as a ‘prototype of hell’. We walk the crowded streets of Victorian London with its...
The Meaning Of Tango
The Story of the Argentinian Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance. The Tango was the cornerstone of Argentine culture, and has lasted for more than a hundred years, popular...
The History of the NME
High times and low lives at the world's most famous music magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The NME mattered to all those generations who grew up with music at the centre of their universe. The NME never had a truer chronicler than Pat Long. Tony Parsons Since it was founded in 1952, the New Musical Express has played a central part in the British love affair with pop music. Snotty, confrontational,...
The VERY Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes
Because your dad thinks he's hilarious
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Why did the banana go to the doctors? Because he wasn't peeling very well! Proving the age-old maxim that its in the way that you tell them, Dads for the best part of forever have always been renowned for being truly god-awful joke tellers. Whether its telling them at the wrong moment, misremembering...
by Geoff Tibballs
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known. Packed with royal stories from 2,000 years of history, from the immortality-obsessed first Emperor of China to our very own master of tact and diplomacy, Prince Philip, this book...