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Aces Falling
War Above The Trenches, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front
At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control...
by Michael Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literature
The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably...
The English Civil Wars
1640-1660
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.
The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more...
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock
How birds can change your life
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense
'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
The extraordinary world of birds has the power to change lives, as it did the author's. The pleasure and fascination of bird-watching, together with the...
See Ya Later
The World According to Arron Crascall
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Arron Crascall is one of the UK's leading social media stars. Millions watch his videos online and he's guaranteed to bring a little bit of hilarity into your day.
This book is his take on the world. The things that are important to Arron. The good, the bad and the stupid (there's a lot of...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Anna Karenina in half the time
Anna Karenina is the heart-wrenching tale of a woman who recklessly throws away everything she has for a passionate affair with a young soldier. Beautiful, popular, wife to a wealthy man and mother to an adored son, Anna seems to be in an enviable position.
However,...
The Great Philosophers:Collingwood
Parliament Under Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
R. G. Collingwood 1889-1943
Many philosophers have been interested in aesthetics, but Collingwood was passionate about art. His theories were never merely theoretical: aesthetics for him was a vivid, vibrant thing, to be experienced immediately in worked paint and in sculpted stone, in poetry...
Daddy's Little Soldier
When home is a war zone, who can little Tom trust?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know what to make of this shy, nervous...
Please Don't Take My Sisters
The heartbreaking true story of a young boy terrified of losing the only family he has left
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Three-year-old Lexie, five-year-old Amelie and thirteen-year-old Leo come to Maggie after Leo confesses to a teacher that his mother's addiction problems and her latest violent relationship has left him as the sole carer to his younger sisters.
Maggie welcomes the three children into her home,...
Don't Go There!
1001 Rude Things People Have Said About Places In Britain And Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Get to know 'Not-so Great Britain' in this crackingly acerbic collection of insulting and downright offensive quotations about cities, towns and other locations in the British Isles.
Towns, cities, counties and constituent countries all come in for a lambasting in this bad-tempered and thoroughly...
Stevenson: Everyman's Poetry
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
We Will Remember Them
Voices From The Aftermath Of The Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.
After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd...
by Adrian Greaves
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The story of the bravest battle ever fought.
On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at...
by Colin Greenland
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973. Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical response to the crisis of modern...