Aurum Press: 240 books
The Last Human Cannonball:
And Other Small Journeys in Search of Great Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Byron Rogers' latest collection of travel pieces follows the winning formula of his first book for Aurum, "An Audience with an Elephant": in search of - and finding - a remarkable array of quirky, whimsical and singular individuals. But as well as such characters as the pensioner on a Saga...
by Simon Heffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
The Telegraph newspapers maintain their high standards of accuracy, literacy and grammar thanks to a comprehensive style book used by all their journalists, covering everything from the correct title of a baron to the spelling of Gorden Kaye’ s Christian name when writing about Allo, Allo. But its...
Thames Path in London
From Hampton Court to Crayford Ness: 50 miles of historic riverside walk
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A completely new Trail Guide dedicated to the London section of the Thames Path from Hampton Court to the Thames Barrier.
Until now, Aurum’s popular one-volume Thames Path guide has had all too little room to cover the endlessly rich array of sights and history along its London section †“...
Tunnelling to Freedom
The Story of the World's Most Persistent Escaper
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
John Fancy, who died in September 2008, aged 95, was the most prolific escaper of the Second World War. Nicknamed 'the Mole' he dug eight tunnels at the various camps in which he was held, in East Prussia, Poland and Germany. Some were 40 feet below the surface and only 2 feet square. He escaped three...
Telling Tails
From Hopeless Hounds to Tyrannical Tortoises: Animal Letters to The Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
SIR – Our dog Ben has savaged all electioneering material pushed through our letterbox, with the exception of any communication from the Conservative Party. My son even tried reposting the same flyer, but still no mauling from Ben. Are we to conclude that our dog swings to the right?
SIR –...
I Rest My Case
Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of ‘Am I Alone . . . ?’ books
From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton’s bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year’s events, in the letters the paper didn’t publish,...
Arlott
The Authorised Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
John Arlott's rich Hampshire burr was the voice of BBC cricket commentary for many years, from the great Test match radio broadcasts of the fifties to bucolic Sunday League on the television in the seventies. But he was also a distinguished journalist for the Guardian, a Liberal parliamentary candidate,...
Stones Touring Party
A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
‘ A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972… Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today’ The Times
The Stones’ 1972 tour of the States was perhaps their best – and certainly most notorious – ever. Their previous visit in 1969...
The Lost World of Bletchley Park
An illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The huge success of Sinclair’s The Secret Life of Bletchley Park – a quarter of a million copies sold to date – has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking....
The Impossible Has Happened
The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
8 September 2016 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of the world's most successful science fiction television series: Star Trek. In this new biography Lance Parkin, author of Aurum's acclaimed Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, will go in search of the show's creator,...
The Duchesses
The Story of Britain's Ultimate Steam Locomotives
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The Duchesses tells the story of the ‘Princess Coronation’ class of locomotives -the streamlined embodiments of raw, bulked-up muscle and formidable power that any enthusiast will tell you were the finest steam engines in Britain. Conceived of by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway to rival...
by John Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
6 February 2008 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Munich air disaster in which twenty-three people, including eight of Matt Busby's 'Babes', lost their lives. Roberts' moving tribute remains a classic of football literature which powerfully captures the essence of the game in another era. Updated...
Badminton Revisited
An Anecdotal History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Julian Seaman first went to Badminton as an autograph-hunting fan in the 1960s. He later decided to become a competitor. In his first year, his horse became lame. Year two, he completed the dressage in a rainstorm in a coat made in his tailoring class at college. Third time he fell. Indeed, he fell...
Getting a Grip
On My Game, My Body, My Mind... My Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
At the age of sixteen, Monica Seles crashed on to the world tennis scene by becoming the youngest winner in French Open History. For three years, she dominated the tennis circuit, racking up eight Grand Slam titles, winning three back-to-back French Open titles. At post-match conferences she charmed...