John Harding: 32 books
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
A unique chance to read these two chilling Gothic tales from the brilliant storyteller John Harding together. Modern Gothic classic Florence & Giles and it’s sequel The Girl Who Couldn’t Read are a must for fans of Edgar Allen Poe. A pair of Gothic novels that will chill and delight. FLORENCE...
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years across Europe, Iran, East Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Arctic. He climbed many classic peaks including Mont Blanc, Mount Kenya, and Mount Cook, explored obscure ranges, and pioneered...
Football Wizard
The Story of Billy Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
BILLY MEREDITH was one of football’s most extraordinary and controversial characters. Ninety years after his last match, his name is still one of soccer’s most famous. Born at Chirk, Denbighshire, in 1874, Meredith began work as a coal-miner when he was just twelve before his breathtaking soccer...
Lonsdale's Belt
Boxing's Most Coveted Prize
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
For more than one hundred years the Lonsdale Belt, first awarded in 1909 by the legendary National Sporting Club and since 1936 by the British Boxing Board of Control, has encircled the waists of all the great names in British boxing history: Freddie Welsh and Ted 'Kid' Lewis; Benny Lynch and Jimmy Wilde;...
by John Harding
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2014
L’istituto con le sue antiche torri svetta solitario sull’isola sferzata dal vento. Quella è l’unica casa che Jane conosce. Perché Jane, bellissima e silenziosa, non ricorda chi è. Non ricorda la sua età né da dove proviene. Non sa più leggere né scrivere. Ma quello che non ha dimenticato...
by John Harding
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
New England, 1891. È notte fonda ormai. Nell’antica dimora di Blithe House regnano il silenzio e l’oscurità. Per Florence, giovane orfana di dodici anni, è finalmente giunto il momento che ogni giorno aspetta con ansia. Attenta a non far rumore, sale le scale ed entra nella vecchia biblioteca....
On the Banks of the Rappahannock
A Captivating Story of Romance and Mystery in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
This historical novel will travel through the colonial days of the south beginning in 1699 and culminating in 1783 with the struggles of the Revolution. Three U. S. Presidents have ties to the historical characters in this book George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. Mary Ball, mother...
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
At fifty the guarantee runs out...
About to hit the big five-oh, obsessed with sex, cocaine-fuelled and gripped by a crippling fear of death, Professor Michael Cole is finding life a bit of a struggle.
It's finding the time to squeeze everything in, really. He's supposedly writing the...
Sailing's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.
Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and...
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks...
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks...
Flying's Strangest Moments
Extraordinary But True Stories from Over 1100 Years of Aviation History
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The history of flying is packed with incredible feats of bravery and endurance, human ingenuity and recklesness, mystery, romance and tragedy. From the first hot air balloons of the 18th century to the supersonic jet flights of today, magnificent men (and women) have taken their incredible flying...
Sailing's Strangest Moments
Extraordinary But True Stories From Over Nine Hundred Years of Sailing
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather, meetings with pirates and sea monsters, and other legendary tales.
The Whitechapel Whirlwind
The Jack Kid Berg Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Jack Kid Berg dominated boxing in the early 1930s like no other British-born boxer before or since. Born of immigrant Russian-Jewish parents, he grew up in the East End of London, gaining a fearsome reputation for scrapping in the streets of Whitechapel. Berg's American battles with Tony Canzoneri...