Orion: 2711 books
by Robin Neillands
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
A concise and entertaining study of the vicious wars between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster during the 15th century.
The vicious wars between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster marked the end of medieval England and the birth of the Renaissance. The end of that thirty-year...
Tom, Ned and Kitty
An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What thoughts went on behind those passive, chalky faces? How can I bring them out of the shadows?'
Eliza Pakenham, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Longford, chronicles the fortunes...
John Skelton
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature. The outspoken tutor of the future Henry VIII, Skelton was an idiosyncratic genius whose poetry defies rules and boundaries.
Hitler's War
Germany's Key Strategic Decisions 1940-45
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This is a closely argued and wide-ranging assessment of just how, with so many alternatives open, the German High Command chose the path that led, ultimately, to its own destruction. Heinz Magenheimer examines in detail the options that were open to the Germans as the war progressed. He identifies...
by Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
A masterly portrait of cricket's supreme batsman and Australia's greatest hero.
Uniquely among biographers of Don Bradman, Charles Williams sets his subject's cricketing achievements within the context of a crucial period in the history of modern Australia, a time when, as the country felt...
by Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).
Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his wife's open adultery and his progressive...
Gentlemen & Players
The Death of Amateurism in Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Amateurs versus professionals - a social history and memoir of English cricket from 1953 to 1963.
The inaugural Gentlemen v. Players first-class cricket match was played in 1806, subsequently becoming an annual fixture at Lord's between teams consisting of amateurs (the Gentlemen) and professionals...
The Death of Marco Pantani
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, now u****pdated to include the 2014 and 2015 investigation into Pantani's death.
National Sporting Club Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
'An exhaustively...
Breakfast at the Hotel Déjà vu
An ebook-exclusive novella
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
From the author of the bestselling SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (released as a film starring Ewan McGregor), a tale of the unexpected...
Bobby Clarke arrives at a hotel on the Mediterranean shore. He is a former MP, unseated by the expenses scandal, who is now spending time abroad to recover...
William Cowper
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce
Thomas Hardy: Everyman Poetry
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Both major novelist and major poet, with a distinctive off-beat and intensely personal style, Hardy is a modern writer born out of his time.
Sevens Heaven
The Beautiful Chaos of Fijis Olympic Dream: WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team
It is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes...
Manchester Buccaneers
The Diary of a Manchester United Fan, aged 12, from Tampa Bay
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
A hilarious diary of a young American soccer fan, who supports Malcolm Glazer's new Manchester Buccaneers
'My name is Roswell P. Shambling. I'm a 12-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan. I saw Malcolm Glazer bought EPL soccer side Manchester and they are now my favourite franchise. Manchester...
by Richard Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The story of the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix - the last race of the heroic age of motor racing
There has been much talk of how Grand Prix motor racing has become rather dull with big name, big brand winners ousting out all competition. But it wasn't always so. Once a romantic sport, motor sport...