Abacus imprint: 104 books
by Rupert Everett
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
'[An] instant classic' Independent
Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of...
by Rich Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego
'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething - cryin' out savagely for relief. Eventually he would appear over my crib and rub Jack Daniels...
Black Watch
Liberating Europe and Catching Himmler My Extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still treasures - the Gestapo commander's watch.
Seriously...
F.M.: The Life Of Frederick Matthias Alexander
Founder of the Alexander Technique
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s...
Spies In The Sky
The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of...
Underground England
Travels Beneath Our Cities and Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
UNDERGROUND ENGLAND takes an extraordinary and original look at our island nation - from below.
Stephen Smith quite literally delves into the unknown country underneath ploughed fields, clifftops and market towns. UNDERGROUND ENGLAND will explore rudimentary earth dwellings and hidden Cold...
A Corkscrew is Most Useful
The Travellers of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel...
A Radical History Of Britain
Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - The Men and Women Who Fought For Our Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency...
Underground London
Travels Beneath the City Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well...
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth
The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves...
When I Die
Lessons from the Death Zone
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. In the face of difficult decisions he sought always to understand the disease and the various medical options open to him, supported by his wife Gail and their two...
What Freud Really Said
An Introduction to His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
What Freud Really Said offers the most lucid overview available of Sigmund Freud, his legacy, and his place in our world. As the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and one of the sharpest clinical minds of the twentieth century, Freud continues to be one of the most influential thinkers...
A Tall Man In A Low Land
Some Time Among the Belgians
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy...
Storming The Falklands
My War and After
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Thirty years after the Falklands War 'Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands and he fought in the bloody first and last battles of the war before liberating...