Aurum Press: 240 books
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The Authorised Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Byron Rogers’ biographies of the maverick literary figures J. L. Carr and R.S. Thomas drew dazzling critical acclaim from both fans and reviewers. His singular insight into the lives of these men was undoubtedly derived from Rogers’ own bizarre, whimsical disposition. For such a wildcard as Byron...
Formula One: The Pursuit of Speed
A Photographic Celebration of F1's Greatest Moments
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The adrenaline-fueled, high-octane world of Formula One has created some of the greatest moments in sporting history. Its infamous circuits have played host to intense rivalries that have produced moments of tragedy and triumph that read like a film script.
Since the 1950s, Bernard Cahier...
The House of Redgrave
The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
From the landmark films of Tony Richardson to the untimely death of Natasha Richardson – this is the saga of one of the greatest dynasties in British film and theatre.
In 1937, at the end of a production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier strode to the front of the stage to hush the...
All Behind You, Winston
Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
On 14 May 1940, the Evening Standard published a cartoon with the caption "All Behind You, Winston". It showed Churchill, the freshly installed prime minister, rolling up his sleeves to confront the oncoming menace of Nazi Germany. In his wake, leading the endless ranks of the British people,...
Just Boris
A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just ‘ Boris’ – the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely,...
Outpost of Occupation
The Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’ s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded.
The...
by Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘ African Trilogy’ – were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account...
The VW Camper Van
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
It was invented immediately after the war, in the factory a far-sighted English military man had set up to turn the German economy from making machines of warfare to more pacific products.
By the seventies that dream had been amply fulfilled, as the VW Campervan became the conveyance of choice...
The Secret Listeners
How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret…The men and women of the ‘ Y’ (for Wireless’ ) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military’s encrypted messages for decoding back at the...
Jumbo
The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words.
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Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where †“ for seventeen years...
Raymond Chandler
A Mysterious Something in the Light: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most...
Lovely Bits of Old England
John Betjeman at The Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 and continued to do so for a quarter of a century.
During that time Britain underwent profound social and cultural changes. In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future....
Dunkirk
From Disaster to Deliverance - Testimonies of the Last Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
When Churchill made one of the most inspiring speeches of the 20th century - 'we will fight them on the beaches' †“ he was giving thanks for the miracle of deliverance, the harrowing and breathless evacuation...
The Barbed-Wire University
The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. He is the spruce, stiff-upper-lipped Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai, or Steve McQueen’ s cunning and opportunist ‘ Cooler King’ in The Great Escape, the all-American motorbike hero. If he is imprisoned...