Ebury Digital imprint: 1072 books
Fork Handles
The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
With a foreword by Ronnie Corbett.
Loved by millions and collected here for the first time is the very best of Ronnie Barker’s classic sketches, monologues, songs and, of course, the brilliant two-handers that he wrote for The Two Ronnies. Celebrating his genius for comic wordplay, this wonderful...
Dudley Moore
An Intimate Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Rena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life until his death at the age of 66. This is her intimate portrait of the extraordinarily brilliant, complex character that was Dudley Moore.
During the last ten years of his life...
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
My Difficult 80s
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
'Higher education comes at exactly the right time: in the twilight of your teens, you're just starting to coagulate as a human being, to pull away from parental influence and find your own feet. What better than three years in which to explore the inner you, establish a feasible worldview, and maybe...
Castles In The Air
The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Castles in the Air is a beautifully written, autobiographical story of rescuing an ancient mansion. Gwydir Castle was inhabited by ravers and rats until Judy Corbett and her husband Peter Welford found and acquired this 500-year-old house mouldering in the foothills of Snowdonia. Despite the toads,...
No Place Like Home
A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'
When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from his tour of Afghanistan, little does he...
Forgotten Voices of D-Day
A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious assault ever attempted. Their...
by Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
'On leaving the plane I can only say I felt very lonely, except that the sky was full of bullets coming upwards. Fortunately, it wasn’t long before my feet hit the ground with a thud. Almost as soon as my feet touched the ground, I was to find that I had landed directly in front of the muzzle of...
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my toenails out...' - Robert Sheppard,...
El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder
My time inside Ecuador’s toughest prisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
“Gato’s head snapped back… We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back.”
Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned...
Your Pregnancy Companion
Everything you need to know about pregnancy, birth and the first weeks of parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Your Pregnancy Companion is an informative and reassuring guide to pregnancy, birth and the first weeks with your baby. Full of the latest essential information and expert advice, it will help you to prepare yourself for motherhood and give your baby the best start in life.
Zita also includes...
Wrestling The Dragon
In search of the Tibetan lama who defied China
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
He's master of the PlayStation, he listens to rap music, he writes poetry and, in his eighteen-year-old hands, may hold the future of the Tibetan people. He is Ogyen Trinley Dorje, a Tibetan lama and the seventeenth incarnation of the Karmapa (third in line to the Dalai Lama).
When he was fourteen,...
The Last British Dambuster
One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II
'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our families and our way of life was being attacked...
Extreme Rambling
Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?'
The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its impact on life in the West Bank has been enormous.
Mark Thomas -...
Pagan Paths
A Guide to Wicca, Druidry, Asatru Shamanism and Other Pagan Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Paganism is a collection of spiritual paths that have their roots in the ancient religions of the world. Thousands of Pagans today share a love of Nature and a reverence of the Divine, but how they express their beliefs differs according to the path they follow. This ground-breaking guide to Paganism...