Aurum Press: 240 books
Last Call for the Dining Car
The Daily Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Ever since Paul Theroux embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing.
This is truer than ever in the twenty-first century. As the environmental implications of relentless air travel cast an ominous shadow over...
Mario Lanza
Sublime Serenade
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Maria Callas called him the greatest tenor who ever lived. Vocally and technically, Mario Lanza was a genius. Like Callas, Lanza's was a phenomenal talent complimented by a more than monstrous ego. Suffering from what would today be diagnosed as bi-polar disorder, he lived virtually his whole life...
Fedegraphica
A Graphic Biography of the Genius of Roger Federer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Fedegraphica is a graphic biography that reveals the genius of Roger Federer through illuminating infographics of his game alongside stories and analysis from those who have played, watched and admired him. Roger Federer is highly regarded as the greatest player of all time. Revered for his supreme...
Fedegraphica
A Graphic Biography of the Genius of Roger Federer
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Universally recognised as the greatest tennis player of all time, and maybe even the greatest athlete, Roger Federer is one of sport's most iconic and popular figures and is adored by millions around the world.
In this graphic biography like no other, his genius and astonishing records —...
Pete Sampras
A Champion's Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest player tennis has ever seen. A man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented No. 1 world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible an as yet unbroken 14 Grand Slam record. Yet while more vocal rivals often grabbed the...
Ashe vs Connors
Wimbledon 1975 - Tennis that went beyond centre court
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Early in July of 2015, tennis will celebrate the 40th anniversary of what might be the greatest upset in the annals of tennis.
There have been other key matches in which the disparity between the favourite and the victorious underdog may have been more pronounced by standards of the sport....
Magic Words
The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
"In Magic Words Lance Parkin has crafted a biography that is insightful, scrupulously fair-minded and often very funny, a considerable achievement given its unrelentingly grim, unreasonable and annoying subject. Belongs on the bookshelf of any halfway decent criminal profiler." ALAN...
Think Differently: Open your mind. Philosophy for modern life
20 thought-provoking lessons (BUILD+BECOME)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
**Philosophy is about our lives and how we live them. **
Using a unique, visual approach to explore philosophical concepts, Adam Ferner shows how philosophy is one of our best tools for responding to the challenges of the modern world.
From philosophical ‘people skills’ to ethical and...
Squeaky Bum Time
The Wit, Wisdom and Hairdryer of Sir Alex Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired in May 2013 as manager of Manchester United is the most success manager English football has ever seen. He was simultaneously the most admired and feared manager in British football. During almost forty years in the dugout, and over half a century in the professional...
Has the World Gone Completely Mad...?
Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper’s huge postbag that never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters...
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper
The New Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
‘ Railway termini,’ wrote E.M. Forster, ‘ are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine… ’ Now, in this new collection of great journeys from the pages of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Michael Kerr follows up his bestselling anthology,...
The Last Viking
The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott’s beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
The most feted explorer of his generation, Amundsen counted the discovery of the Northwest Passage,...
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off...
Unpublished Letters to the Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Follow up in the best-selling series of Unpublished Letters, this is another hilarious annual review made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom,...
by Andrew Roden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
God’ s Wonderful Railway” , it was called if you were a fan; the “ great Way Round” if you took a rather more jaundiced view of some of its circuitous branch lines. But 175 years after its foundation, the Great Western Railway company is remembered with the most nostalgia, even love, of all...