Tom Quinn: 24 books
Mrs Keppel
Mistress to the King
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else mattered - especially when it came to her infamous affair with King Edward VII.
As the King's favourite mistress up until his death in 1910, Alice...
The Reluctant Billionaire
The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, Sixth Duke of Westminster
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world’s richest men, his fortune estimated at just under £10 billion.
Yet he hated his wealth and spent long periods suffering from severe depression, much of it brought on by a feeling that his whole...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Take a step back into the world of steam railways, and discover the reality of life and work on Britain's railway system before the Beeching cuts and the introduction of diesel changed it forever. Tom Quinn has sought out a fascinating range of characters who recount their experiences of working on...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
It may sound innocuous compared to war plague and famine but flu is in fact one of the worlds biggest killers. Strains of the virus are always in circulation but every so often a new and particularly virulent one comes along to which we have no historic immunity when that happens the consequences are...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Military campaigns, pivotal battles and extraordinary leaders have collectively shaped the course of history and in this fascinating book, author Tom Quinn examines some of the most remarkable campaigns, incidents and characters from the earliest recorded histories to the second Gulf war. These strange...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
More extraordinary but true stories from London’s history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London’s Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a splendiforous collection of bizarre-but-true stories that explore a thousand...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.
** **Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
After dropping out of Melbourne University, getting a job as a storeman, doing drugs, getting married and then splitting-up with his wife Jack Rowland joins the Australian Defence Force and is sent to East Timor at the height of the troubles. His ability to speak a few words of Indonesian leads to...
Backstairs Billy
The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
"William Tallon was a creature of extremes: though intensely loyal, he was also a dangerous risk-taker; though charming, he could also be vicious; though considerate and amusing, he could be ruthless and predatory. For much of his life he was driven by two demons: a powerful sex drive and an...
The Cook's Tale
Life Below Stairs as it Really Was
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow,...
The Maid's Tale
A Revealing Memoir of Life Below Stairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Praise for Lives of the Servants:
`Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone?s Inner Bolshevik?!' Daily Mail
`...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.' The Age
`...captures the subtleties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.'...
London's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn’t know about Britain’s capital, like the fact that it’s still forbidden to...
Cocoa at Midnight
The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was only really one option once school was over - a life in service. She started...
BARKING MAD
TWO CENTURIES OF GREAT DOG STORIES
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Barking Mad taps into the British passion for dogs by bringing together a unique collection of extraordinary, touching and sometimes bizarre but true stories covering sporting dogs (and hounds), military mascots, eccentric companions, war heroes and Royal dogs. Many of the best and most intriguing...
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