Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
Arsenal on the Double
Overdrawn, Under The Weather, Overslept, Underpants, Over The Moon, Under The Table - A Terrace Take On The Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
These are heady times at Highbury. Gobsmacked Gooners have been 'giving it large' over their glorious Double victory after three long years of playing bridesmaid to their northern nemesis.
Arsenal on the Double is an intimate account of the most exciting season since the inception of the Premier...
Alex Ferguson
6 Years at United
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Alex Ferguson, once king of Scottish football, gave up the easy life in Aberdeen to follow in the famous footsteps of Sir Matt Busby. Others had flickered and then faded in the shadow cast by the legendary Busby but Ferguson couldn’t resist the call. ‘Football is a strange obsession. Winning is...
Druglord
Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
When ruthless drug baron John Haase was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for heroin-trafficking in 1995, it was a major victory for Customs and the police. But in a shock move, after Haase and his partner Paul Bennett had served only 11 months, then Home Secretary Michael Howard signed a Royal...
by Phil Sparrowhawk, Martin King, Martin Knight
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood. Like most punters, he enjoyed an incredible run of luck, but finally rolled the dice once too often.
Before he had come of age, Phil had accumulated a small fortune from street trading. He then...
Andrew Carnegie
Little Boss
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1922) was a mass of contradictions: a radical Chartist who became a rabid capitalist, an idealist who was also a profound cynic, a committed pacifist who also played a crucial role in the opening part of the American Civil War, and a ladies’ man who had to wait until his...
Sugar Daddy Diaries
When a Fantasy Became an Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips,...
First Catch Your Husband
Adventures on the Dating Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Sarah Bridge is smart, successful . . . and single. As a newspaper journalist, she has a hectic day job, a busy social life and is perfectly happy with both. But something – or someone – is missing.
Embarking on a quest to find her soulmate, she tries everything: from speed-dating and wine-tasting...
No Glossing Over It
How Football Cheated Leeds United
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Between 1964 and 1992, Leeds United won 11 fabulous trophies, but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles and cups, not least club football's greatest prize, the European Cup, in 1975.
In No Glossing Over It, lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals...
A Game for Hooligans
The History of Rugby Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now.
A Game for Hooligans...
Leeds United - From Darkness into White
The Year of Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated under an earlier regime, the...
The Sevenpenny Gate
A Lifelong Love Affair with Celtic FC
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
'Clutching in my hand my seven copper pennies, I ran down the two flights of stone stairs from our tenement flat and through the East End to Kinloch Street, where, puffing a bit, I joined the queue of other wee boys lining up to place their coins on the brass plate above the iron turnstile, push hard...
John Charles
Gentle Giant
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
‘Whenever I look at him, it is as though the Messiah has returned.’ That's how Jimmy Murphy, manager of Wales’ 1958 World Cup side, described John Charles. In Italy, where he played for Juventus and Roma, Charles was known as Il Gigante Buono – the Gentle Giant – because of his placid temperament.
One...
The Cocaine Diaries
A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'
Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious...
Talking Swing
The British Big Bands
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
From Palace to Palais, the musicians who played in the big bands tell their own stories, bringing to life an unforgettable era.
Pre-war reminiscences give an insight into a never-to-be-forgotten era, when London's nightclubs were the haunts of the aristocracy and of royalty, and the Prince...