Press Books: 313 books
Rasputin
A Short Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin.
Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played...
by Luke Bencie
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Each business day, some 35,000 executives, scientists, consultants and lawyers pass through the nation's airports to destinations across the globe. They carry, along with proprietary documents and computer files, the latest in personal electronic gear. Their goal is to further their interests, improve...
How to Be Danish
A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Part reportage, part travelogue, this is a fascinating introduction to contemporary Danish culture for anyone who wants to know more about the world’s happiest nation.
Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it’s the home of The Killing and...
Calamities & Catastrophes
The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
They say that history is written by the winners. Not according to Derek Wilson.
In this fascinating, revelatory book, Wilson tells the story from the point of view of the losers – collating a catalogue of calamities and catastrophes that have shaped our world more than historians tend to...
Piper the Porcupine
A Tale About Autism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
A short comic teaching kids (and adults) about autism.
Lost Luggage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The prize-winning debut novel from a major new talent in Catalan literature—the story of four half-brothers who only discover the others’ existence when the father who abandoned them all is reported missing.
Christof, Christophe, Christopher, and Cristòfol are four brothers—sons of the...
Happily Ever After
A Light-hearted Guide to Wedded Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Does he habitually leave his socks on the bathroom floor? Does she insist on interrupting your favourite programme to make you explain the plot (when she’s clearly not interested in it anyway)?
Never fear. For, as Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall shows, a good marriage is all in the detail. Happily...
The Beggar & the Hare
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
From a hugely popular, award-winning Finnish author,this entertaining, profound, and satirical tale follows a Romanian beggar living on the streets of Helsinki.
Vatanescu, a young Romanian construction worker, desires two things: a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son....
Cheers, America
How an Englishman Learned to Love America
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
An editor at BBC-TV takes a witty and honest look at the “special” relationship between the US and the UK.
IMAGINE INVITING A BRIT TO A BARBECUE - THAT’S THIS BOOK.
Justin Webb was the BBC’s man in America. He covered politics and interviewed presidents, but more importantly...
by Magnus Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
From a bold new voice in British comic fiction, a hilarious story of a middle-aged man who drops everything to move to the wilds of Scotland—discovering both a strange breed of capitalism and the redemptive power of nature.
Claypole is not “a large man.” He is a fat man. A fat man with...
by Barbara J. Zitwer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
When Joey Rubin stumbles upon a group of elderly women swimming in a lake one freezing January morning, she thinks they must be mad. But then they dare her to come in…
Joey, an overworked New York architect, is in the Cotswolds to oversee the restoration of Stanway House – the stately home...
Ten Million Aliens
A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
“Funny, thoughtful, informative, and wise” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world’s creatures—weird, wonderful, and everything in between—are inextricably linked.
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine....
by M Dunworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Cragfeld was a remote island in a magical world, once a happy place until it's Kingdom was overpowered by a cruel Ice Queen who would do anything for the throne. Having imprisoned her own sister, the rightful Queen, in a tomb of ice, there was little hope for the people of Cragfeld who were under...
You Can Run Your Life
30 Lessons That Will Change Your Mindset And Revolutionize Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Going through life without a consciousness of what happens to you and why they happen could be a very risky venture. It makes you take everything that comes at you in life without any question and attempting to make an adjustment. The author believes that a lot of the deliverance sessions...