Short Books imprint: 58 books
A Short Book on Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (and how to overcome it)
A Therapy Toolkit promoting healing for sufferers of PTSD, whatever the cause - from war veterans to those experiencing the effects of childhood trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
About one in twelve people will suffer a traumatic reaction at some time in their lives. Amongst higher-risk individuals (survivors of assault, military combat and captivity, internment and genocide) the proportion suffering a traumatic reaction may rise to 30-50 per cent. In this short book, clinical...
A Short Book on Stress (and how to cope with it)
A Therapy Toolkit promoting healing for sufferers of stress - both from the workplace and from personal pressures - through psychological and other practical methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Stress is common. The UK Health and Safety Executive reports that in the UK about half a million people a year suffer work-related stress. That number could be matched easily by those who suffer stress due to pressures outside the workplace. In this short book, clinical psychologist Dr Ashley Conway...
A Short Book on Child Sexual Abuse (and how women can overcome the effects of it)
A Therapy Toolkit promoting healing for women abused in childhood, and promoting understanding in those close to them
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Millions of people in the UK are directly affected by Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and probably at least the same number again will have their lives adversely impacted by the indirect effects of CSA - as partners, children and other family members of the abused person. In this short book for female sufferers,...
A Short Book on Child Sexual Abuse (and how men can overcome the effects of it)
A Therapy Toolkit promoting healing for men abused in childhood, and promoting understanding in those close to them
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Millions of people in the UK are directly affected by Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and probably at least the same number again will have their lives adversely impacted by the indirect effects of CSA - as partners, children and other family members of the abused person. In this short book for male sufferers,...
David Livingstone
The legendary explorer of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Born a poor Glasgow cotton-mill worker, David grew up to become a great explorer and hero of his time.
This is his incredible story. The tough man of Victorian Britain would stop at nothing in his determination to be the first white man to explore Africa, even if it meant dragging his wife...
Queen Victoria
The woman who ruled the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 – a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it.
But in 1861 tragedy struck, when her husband Albert died. The little Queen loved dogs and cream cakes and...
Florence Nightingale
The trailblazing nurse of Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Florence knew she did not want a life of fancy clothes and parties, like the other girls. She was going to do something different – and important. But what?
In 1854, she shocked everyone. Florence set out for the Crimea to nurse soldiers injured in the war. Nothing could have prepared her...
The Story of Charles Dickens
The first celebrity writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Young Charles Dickens’s happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt and, aged 12, he was sent to work in a factory to make shoe polish.
By his mid twenties, he was on the verge of becoming the most popular novelist the world has ever known. He created hundreds...
The Story of Isambard Brunel
The man who built Briton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From tunnels and railways to bridges and ships, Isambard Kingdom Brunel would stop at nothing to realise his amazing engineering ideas.
Born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Brunel had a brilliant brain for design, and never tired of building new and exciting things – the deepest...
Ada Lovelace
The mathematical genius
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words.
Lady Byron wanted Ada to be as unlike her father as possible. Ada grew up surrounded by an army of tutors who taught her every subject every waking...
by Jonathan Rendall
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Michael Gerard Tyson grew up in almost indescribable poverty in the ghettos of Brooklyn. Incarcerated in a young offender institution at the age of ten - when he was often mistaken for a man of twenty - Tyson discovered that he had extraordinary physical power. In Scream, Jonathan Rendall presents...
by Ivan Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
“Remember the words of Ivan Rogers the next time you hear some plausible posh boy in a suit telling you ‘no deal’ wouldn’t hurt at all and might even be a jolly good thing.” J.K. Rowling
Two and a half years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the political debate over...
A Rage for Rock Gardening
The Story of Reginald Farrer, gardener, writer and plant collector
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A new edition of Nicola Shulman's miniature masterpiece about the life of gardener Reginald Farrer A hundred years ago, there was a revolution in British gardening, as the garden changed from being a diversion of dukes to the hobby of millions. Few figures were more prominent in this renaissance than...
Our Hearts Hang from the Lemon Trees
A family divided: France, London and the Secrets in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
"I listened to that house breathe and creak through twenty long summers, often bored, or longing to be somewhere else, always ensnared by its charm…" In this captivating memoir, Laetitia Rutherford evokes a vanished world set alight by her enigmatic grandfather and her brilliant but troubled...