John Murray: 683 books
Penguins Stopped Play
Eleven village cricketers take on the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
'Completely brilliant' Ian Hislop
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous...
War Stories
Gripping Tales of Courage, Cunning and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
***'***Highly readable . . . an intimate and varied account of fascinating stories of people at war' History of War
War Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are the stories - many untold until now - of thirty-four individuals who...
The Last Oil Shock
A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and...
by Lisa McInerney
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies
JOINT WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2018
'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable' Louise O'Neill
'The...
by Kirsten McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly...
Along the Enchanted Way
A Story of Love and Life in Romania
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world.
There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In...
by Pete Paphides
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This short book, taken from Remembered For A While, tells the stories and circumstances that surround every known recording in Nick Drake's canon (as well as a few unrecorded songs). The result is like a detailed, extended series of liner notes, something to read while sitting in your favourite chair,...
Katherine Howard
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times
Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen.
Katherine...
Tintin: Hergé and His Creation
Hergé and His Creation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herg?©, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herg?©, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'.
by Jane Robins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying...
by Fabienne Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Open this book and you will
Communicate creatively
Beat the competition
Create brilliant strategy
Really know your market
The Reluctant Bride
One Woman's Journey (Kicking and Screaming) Down the Aisle
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . .
The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry and a way to bring Great-Auntie...
After Hitler
The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten...
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
A John Murray Original
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016
'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy
The...