Profile: 418 books
Growling Over The Oceans
The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members...
Cardus on Cricket
A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings.
Chosen and...
Pompeii's Secrets
The Taras Report on Its Last Days
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Combining fictional characterisation and factual research Alan Lloyd asks who were these people who lived in Pompeii and what were their lives like in those last days before the disaster? Alan Lloyd, an acclaimed historian and novelist, breathes life into the ghosts that haunt the empty streets, quiet...
by Alain Mabanckou
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun?s dream about the countries...
by Sam Hawken
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
El Paso and Ciudad Ju?rez sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, share industry, share crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of the homicides committed in Ju?rez, and Felipe Morales is one...
by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that...
by Robert Walser
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan...
The Monocled Mutineer
The First World War's Best Kept Secret: The Etaples Mutiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The best-selling book behind the BBC Drama 'The Monocled Mutineer', starring Paul McGann as the 'ringleader' of the Étaples Mutiny, Percy Toplis, with a new introduction by John Fairley.
In 1917, British, New Zealand and Australian troops stationed at the Étaples Training Camp in northern France...
Led By The Nose
A Garden of Smells
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden. This unconventional viewpoint is expressed through Joseph's sharp observations and the sensual awareness in her poetry, combined with the energy of her descriptive writing. Also reflected is a sense...
by David Enrique Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help?
Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists' colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new work.
No note. No warning. No trace.
His colleagues are frightened for him, so they call in Juan Manuel Pérez,...
Bum Fodder
An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This is the hidden history of an invention that we use every day but seldom dare to speak of. In medieval China it was cutting-edge technology. For 19th-century Americans it was a newfangled alternative to dried corncobs and the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. Wits in Georgian London preferred pages...
A Meditator's Diary
A Western Woman's Unique Experiences in Thailand Monasteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of her consciousness. In a personal account...
The Secret of the Spear
The Mystery of the Spear of Longinus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The spear used by Longinus, the Roman centurion, to pierce the side of Christ as he hung on the cross has long been believed to be an object of great supernatural and occult power, with the capacity for good or evil. It has been sought by the most powerful figures in history, who have believed that...
Secret Affairs
Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
This updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East and at home in the UK. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of...