Black imprint: 2499 books
Square Mile of Murder
Horrific Glasgow Killings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Four of Britain's most notorious murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre around the turn of the last century. Madeleine Smith was accused and found 'Not Proven' of lacing her doomed lover's late night cocoa with arsenic; an 83-year-old woman was brutally battered to death;...
Glasgow: The Real Mean City
True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation....
Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes
Revised and Updated! Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Finally in paperback?with lots of brand-new jokes from today's top comedians.
What could be funnier than a great joke? How about 2,000 great jokes? In this side?splitting compendium, revised and updated and featuring a new introduction by Drew Carey, members of the world-renowned Friars Club...
Reframe: How to solve the worlds trickiest problems
How to Solve the World's Trickiest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
An original and vital contribution to understanding politics. Matt Ridley, author of The Rational OptimistHow to solve the worlds trickiest problems terrorism, climate change, financial insanity and more.In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, Reframe brings a fresh perspective to our...
Battlers and Billionaires
The Story of Inequality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian...
by Olaudah Equiano
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which they labour: it is also their misfortune, that what is uncommon is rarely, if ever, believed, and what is obvious we are apt to turn from with disgust,...
Lion Rampant
The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing...
by Chris Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Scotland is a country brimful of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will provide a Scots word. In Scottish Wildlife, Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries will introduce...
by Otto Penzler
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations.
The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen...
The Law Killers
New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journalist Alexander McGregor has unique insight into the cases and his stories are as chilling as they are compelling. In The Law Killers Alexander examines...
My Life
Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
During his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Lloyd George. Leading society hostesses such as Lady Cunard, Mrs Randolph Hearst and Nancy Astor. He also knew Beaverbook, Northcliffe...
by Blanche Ebbutt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
*Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives are facsimile editions of the original books published by A&C Black in 1913. Each pocket-sized book contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage, which rings true almost 100 years after it was written.
The reissued titles...
Revolution of the Mind
The Life of Andre Breton
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The first major biography in English of Surrealism’s founder traces his participation in the Paris Dada group in the 1920s, his seminal experiments with automatic writing, his role in the development of Surrealism, and his encounters with Duchamp, Freud, and Sartre.
by Bruce Sandison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Sandison's Scotland is a wonderful collection of stories and tales about some of the country's most wild and evocative places. From dark Loch Ness to the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth, join Bruce on the path less travelled as he goes behind the scenes of Shetland's Up Helly Aa festival and...