Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
Ripley's World
The Enthralling Story of the British Lion's Most Crucial Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Winner of the National Sporting Club's prestigious British Rugby Book of the Year Award for 2008, Ripley's World transforms and redefines the genre of the sports autobiography. In a moving and intimate memoir, Andy Ripley, England rugby icon and victorious British Lion, television Superstar and world...
Cry and You Cry Alone
The Girl Who Vowed She'd Never Forget
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined.
She experienced a brief period of comfort in a caring foster home before being plunged into the dark, terrifying world of...
by Jan de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Today, more and more people are beginning to rediscover the healing powers of roots and plants. Indeed, some of the most frequently prescribed and powerful drugs are based on plant extracts.
Jan de Vries has researched as far back as the twelfth century and has recorded the folk wisdom of various...
Voices Against War
A Century of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Based on nearly 200 personal testimonies from the Imperial War Museum's Collections, this landmark book tells the stories of those of those who participated in anti-war protest from the First World War 1914-18 to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Voices Against War is a compelling, emotional and very moving human story, essential for understanding war in its entirety.
Fairway to Heaven
Victors and Victims of Golf's Choking Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In golf, nowhere is the mental strain more apparent that at the closing stages of a major championship. The crowd, absorbed in every shot, conveys the tension to the players, who are also involved in another contest - the mind game. Before missing the most notorious putt in the history of the Open...
Dog Days in Andalucía
Tails from Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
It was love at first sight: the huge pale-green eyes, the ruffled tawny hair and the cute way he held his head to one side. What really swung it, though, was his feet being way too big for his body, his ears too big for his head and that, while trying to look brave, he was obviously terrified. Charly...
Mad Dog
The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C Company'
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? The name Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war.
From humble beginnings as a rioter and glue-sniffer...
Oman
The True-Life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab State
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Oman is one of the world’s most secretive countries,ruled with absolute authority by the Sultan. All information is strictly controlled by the State: British Prime Minister Edward Heath once said that the story of the 1970 Palace Coup and the events that followed would ‘not be told in our lifetime’.
Following...
William Wallace
Brave Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place of his birth have been mis-stated - until now. James Mackay uses all his skills as a historical detective...
Bare-Arsed Banditti
The Men of the '45
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
They were modern men: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, shoemakers and shopkeepers, farmers, gardeners and weavers. Children of the Age of Reason, they wrote poetry, discussed the latest ideas in philosophy and science - and rose in armed rebellion against the might of the British crown...
Not Waving But Drowning
The Troubled Life and Times of a Frontline RUC Officer
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man's childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
From his earliest days, Edmund Gregory possessed an awareness beyond his years. During the course of his parents'...
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is one of the best-known regiments in the British Army. In a previous incarnation as the 93rd Highlanders, its soldiers were famed for being the 'thin red line' that repulsed the Russian heavy cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. When the...
The Gordon Highlanders
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an aristocratic landowner, the Duke of Gordon, whose wife played a major role in attracting recruits by riding...
Curt
The Alan Curtis Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Welsh footballer Alan Curtis is synonymous with Swansea City, having played for the club during three different spells, but he also played for Leeds United, Southampton and Cardiff City, and won thirty-five caps for his country during an action-packed playing career that spanned two decades.
Alan...