Orion: 2711 books
by Jeff Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin Star
November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying...
No Empty Chairs
The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.
The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of...
by Michael Grant
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A fascinating and detailed guide to ancient Greece.
Michael Grant looks at the policies and government of the hundreds of independent city-states and at the everyday life of the citizens. With fluency and scholarships he shows how the brilliance of the Ancient Greeks' civilization was by no...
House Of Treason
The Rise And Fall Of A Tudor Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers
The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard...
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt
Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?
Don't bet your afterlife on it.
Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people...
Too Scared To Cry
And other true stories from the nations favourite foster carer
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this heartwarming and inspiring collection for the first...
by John Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Everything about the planet revolving about Sigma Draconis seemed to indicate that here was a world that could be made into a second Earth. It was fertile and lacked native inhabitants and dangerous beasts. Then what was troubling the pioneer colony that had landed and set up shop there? Was it really...
by John Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
When mankind colonized the stars, they travelled out from Earth in two directions - to Centaurus and its Southern Hemisphere neighbours and to Ursa Major and the constellations around Polaris. And strange to say the humans who settled on those various worlds began to develop into two differing antagonistic...
The Rod of Light
The Soul of the Robot Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude, defending themselves from servitude, defending themselves against the humans who work to exterminate them using super-machines.
The ultimate hope of the most powerfully intelligent robots...
by Ian Watson, Michael Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a great network of ruined palaces, are partly biological...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. For the first time, this edition boasts the complete plays - including two versions of Doctor Faustus.
Blasphemy, perversion, defiance and transgression ... in a series...
by Donald Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower
The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the son of an eccentric and indigent Scottish...
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire
Terrors and Torments, Diseases and Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history.
The...
Sisters In Arms
British Army Nurses Tell Their Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.
The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain largely untold. Thousands of middle-class...