Michael O Mara Books: 43 books
Off with their Heads!
All the Cool Bits in British History
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Bursting with the best bits from British history, this follow-up to Thirty Days Has September seeks to inspire a love of history that can last a lifetime.
The Inn at the Top
Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub - The Tan Hill Inn - located in the bleak landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub's search for a new manager, they...
Make Do and Mend
Keeping Family and Home Afloat on War Rations
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The rationing period during World War II was a difficult time, and yet it is remembered nostalgically as a time of unity and great sacrifice. Make Do and Mend focuses on clothes rationing, which was introduced in June 1940. With the nation's industrial output concentrated on the war effort, basic clothes...
The Little Book of Twitter
Get Tweetwise!
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
In "The Little Book of Twitter", Tim Collins will give you all the information you need to get up to speed and become a bona fide Tweeter, including: how to get started; the weirdest and wittiest Twitter feeds; the netiquette of Twitter; the best celebrity Tweeters; and, tweeting at work. Your shortcut...
by Emma Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book...until now. "The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks" pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, passing by the likes...
As Right as Rain
The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Would you be down in the dumps if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, it was all Greek to you? Let's not beat about the bush: the English language is littered with linguistic quirks, which, out of context, seem completely peculiar. If you can't quite cut the mustard, this book will explain...
It's About Time
From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
From the ice-age recordings of moon cycles and the earliest calendars, to modern wristwatches and quantum clocks, time and its effects have always enthralled mankind. We've spent centuries developing new ways of measuring time, describing it and quantifying it, and such methods have given rise to some...
Aunt Epp's Guide for Life
From Chastity to Copper Kettles, Musings of a Victorian Lady
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Aunt Epp penned her life lessons, which form a fascinating glimpse of Victorian life, over sixty years. Sassy and opinionated, Aunt Epp was not afraid to voice her views and give her advice on topics ranging from gingerbread to genitals, sheep's head to 'softening of the member', God to golden pippins.
by Les Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A classic story of the endless battle between the North and the South of England, Come Back With the Wind tells a humorous tale of how the threat of an embargo on whiskey sales to the South leads to civil war and a possible permanent split between the two proud regions. The late Les Dawson author, beloved...
A Real Boy
How Autism Shattered Our Lives - and Made a Family from the Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
With raw honesty, Christopher and Nicola Stevens lay bare their experiences, which are by turns harrowing, hilarious, and inspirational.Autism is often depicted as a lonely affliction but, as David's story unfolds, his parents reveal how the condition has given them an unbreakable togetherness; an...
Robin the Hoodie
An ASBO History of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Hans Christian Asbosen is back with more wickedly witty tales of ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) England.
Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War
A Soldier of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy,...
The Story of English
How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
The Story of English" illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically...
by Davina Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Long before the days of Christian Grey and Ana Steele, the Victorian era was a time of dangerous passions and insatiable desires. Fifty Shades of Victorian Desire reveals the secret world of Victorian erotica, in a tantalizing anthology of lust, pleasure and pain. This sensual collection leaves no fantasy...