John Blake imprint: 794 books
by Russ Kane, Sally Kane
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2002
He's a radio star, she's a model.They had everything. Then disaster ripped their life apart.Russ Kane is familiar to millions across Greater London as the voice of Capital Radio's Flying Eye. He and his wife Sally appear to be a 'perfect couple' who seem to have it all. Yet behind this public image...
by Vince Bramley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Written by a soldier from the ranks, this book is a candid account of the bloody battle for Mount Langdon during the Falklands War. Vincent Bramley describes in shocking detail the 12 hours of brutal man-to-man combat that it took before the Third Battalion Parachute Regiment were able to take the...
by Quentin Falk
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
On October 8, 1920 the body of a young woman named Kate Lilian Bailey, aged 22, was discovered. It transpired that her husband, George Arthur Bailey, had poisoned his seven-months pregnant wife with prussic acid, and with a whiff of the same chloroform he used to ease her final anguish, sedated his...
Beating the Odds
From shocking childhood abuse to the embrace of a loving family, one man's true story of courage and redemption
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One man's remarkable tale of endurance and survival—vivid, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting, as the beaten child, once told he was rubbish and would never be worth anything, becomes a man with the heart to love, live, and embrace the future
As Paul Connolly struggled to leave behind...
Help I'm a FACEBOOKAHOLIC
Inside the Crazy World of Social Networking
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Whether it's a means of staying in touch with old friends or of making new enemies, Facebook -- which celebrates its 7th birthday in 2011 -- is impossible to ignore... In June an Irish MEP called for Facebook to be regulated as a health hazard, in the same way as alcohol and drugs. It's not hard to...
Tia Sharp
A Family Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This is the shocking true story of how a step-grandfather murdered the young girl who trusted him. On August 3, 2012, Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old school girl, was reported missing from her grandmother’s house in New Addington, South London. A call by her mother alerted the police to Tia’s disappearance,...
by Jacqui Kirby, Veronica Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
When Jacqui Kirby’s 16 year-old daughter Colette went missing just minutes after leaving home, her mother knew instinctively that something was very wrong. Colette had left to walk to her boyfriend’s home but never arrived. The following morning her body was found by her elder brother Mark. Colette’s...
Running Crazy - Imagine Running a Marathon. Now Imagine Running Over 100 of Them.
Incredible True Stories from the World's Most Fanatical Runners
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Pheidippides did it once and became a legend. Brian Mills did it 771 times... but you might be forgiven for not knowing who he is. He is a runner and 'it' is the marathon, all 26 miles and 385 yards of it, and for some people once is not enough. Brian Mills is rumoured to have a butterfly tattoo for...
by Beverli Rhodes, Sharon Ward-Keeble
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The astonishing true story of Beverli Rhodes, child victim of a sick, high-profile paedophilia ring and, years later, of the London Tube bombings, who rebuilt her life with the help of one very special animal - the horse. Horses saved Beverli Rhodes's mind, and life. As a child, her world consisted...
Unbroken
One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
"For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented . . . difficult to piece together. It was too extreme, too violent for me to understand."
Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took...
by Robert Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1984, at the age of 78, world-renowned rose grower Hilda Murrell was found brutally murdered in the Shropshire countryside. She had just gained approval to testify on the unsolved problems of radioactive waste at the first British planning inquiry into a new nuclear power plant at Sizewell, Suffolk....
Bees' Knees and Barmy Armies
Origins of the Words and Phrases We Use Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
What makes someone "pleased as punch?" Why is New York City called "The Big Apple?" And what does it mean to escape by the "skin of your teeth?" Every day speech is peppered with hundreds of phrases and expressions, but rarely are their origins contemplated. This intriguing...
Vanished
The Truth About the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
On the evening of May 3, 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to their resort apartment in Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmare-their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann had vanished from her room. Her disappearance sparked a worldwide manhunt. Poster campaigns, distraught...
by Robert Jobson, Arthur Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
WITH EXCLUSIVE PICTURES BY ARTHUR EDWARDS MBE.With the world watching, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, third in the line of succession to the throne, was born on 22 July 2013. The next day, his proud parents stepped out of St Mary's Hospital, London to present their baby to the excited...