Constable imprint: 254 books
Being David Archer
And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
'Hilarious' Mail on Sunday
'Stylish, very funny memoir' Daily Mail
Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland and the voice of 'Mind The Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Aimed primarily at the five million...
by Sammy Looker
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Most publishers keep a "slushpile" - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might just conceal that one jewel of a bestseller or classic novel lying near the bottom. Authors discovered via the slush pile...
I've Said It Before...
Unpublished Letters to the Daily Mail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
'I read that a woman has left her husband and children to go and live with a Red Indian she met on the internet. Could it be said that her marriage was going through a bad Apache?'
Thousands of letters to the Daily Mail go unpublished every week - until now. Included in this collection of 'the...
by Josef M. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War.
Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape,...
by Michael Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest that Sir Alf Ramsey's success...
Backing into the Spotlight
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail
Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios,...
Patronising Bastards
How the Elites Betrayed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots.
'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail
'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards...
Tescopoly
How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
You can shop anywhere you like -- as long as it's Tesco
The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, director of the acclaimed think-and-do-tank the New Economics...
The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth
The New Global Oligarachs and How They're Taking Over our World
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations building brands at the expense of impoverished third world employees and ripped-off first world consumers. Now, only eight years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a new and insidious club of global billionaires who...
The New Book of Snobs
A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times
'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times
Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide...
Fleeced!
How we've been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers - and how much they've cost us
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Over the past decade some £3 trillion - equivalent to £50,000 for every person in Britain - has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the 'boom', while the other half evaporated in the 'bust' - siphoned off by city bonuses, vaporised...
by Jen Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.
We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops.
Meet...
by Daniel Easterman
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In an Iranian suburb, seven men meet a macabre and voluntary death. They choose to die rather than be captured and interrogated, leaving only one mysterious clue to their identities and mission. Seven more immediately take their place, to carry out the task of assassinating seven rulers, including the U.S. President. One thing stands in their way, CIA agent Peter Randall.
The Shard
The Vision of Irvine Sellar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
'We were told we would never get planning consent and we did. We were told we would never be able to fund it and we did. Then we were told we would never be able to build it and we did.' Irvine Sellar
In 2000, Irvine Sellar, a former market trader famous for helping to create the look of the...