Constable imprint: 254 books
Meetings in No Man's Land
Christmas 1914 and Fraternisation in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle...
The Great Turning Points of British History
The 20 Events That Made the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history.
BBC History Magazine asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their choices present a new way of looking at our...
by Thom Hartmann, Lamar Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Drawing on seventeen years of research, thousands of recently declassified files, and dozens of interviews, Ultimate Sacrifice re-creates and, in many ways, rewrites the crucial period of our history leading up to November 22 1923. In the process, this groundbreaking account provides the missing pieces...
Not The Whole Story
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times
'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler
'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Country Life
This short volume has turned out to be merely a handful of recollections of well-remembered times and stories - some probably...
Drums on the Night Air
A Woman's Flight from Africa's Heart of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Veronica Cecil was twenty-five years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life, the couple and their eleven-month-old son set off for an African adventure.
Very soon, however, Veronica began to realise that...
Skymeadow
Notes from an English Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'A love letter to English horticulture written by a passionate gardener. A must-read for anyone who has dreamt of cultivating their own patch of land' Jane Perrone
'Skymeadow is a fascinating book . . . Every flower, every passing bud, every change in the season is described with rapture' Jilly...
by Shane Dunphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
After the death of his best friend, Shane Dunphy runs away from his life working at a special needs crèche, and attempts to avoid his child protection instincts. However, when a part time journalism job in rural Ireland leads him to a family in desperate need of intervention, and a young girl crying...
by Shane Dunphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
When Shane Dunphy starts work at Little Scamps crèche, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. He had not worked in an early years setting for many years and on arriving for his first day he found that two members of staff, Susan and Tush, are at the end of their tether and on the verge of...
Paw Tracks
A Childhood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Scarred by the rejection and humiliation which he suffers at the hands of his unloving father, the young Denis O'Connor finds solace in the woods and riverbanks of his native Northumberland.
Nevertheless, his newly found happiness communing with nature and the local animals - a neighbour's...
A Different Kind Of Weather
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
'Why did you go into politics in the first place?'
A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through politics.
The youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, Waldegrave's quintessentially...
Bog-Standard Britain
How Mediocrity Ruined This Great Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
No one would attack equality, would they? Quentin Letts just might. Not the notion of equality itself but the way it has become an industry for lobbyists, class warriors and New Labour's ageing Trots.
Egalitarianism is a mania for today's policymakers and the soupy-brained halfwits we contrive...
by Quentin Letts
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The Rev Tom Ross's quiet and semi-alcoholic life as chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons is about to be shattered.
Pastor Petroc Stone of a central London, evangelical church gives sanctuary to a young man being chased by the police for making an anti-Islamic protest. Politicians...
The Power and The Glory
Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
John Paul II and the dark heart of the Catholic Church...
In 1984 David Yallops In Gods Name changed the way that the world looked at the Vatican. In The Power and The Glory David Yallop returns to Rome with another explosive story: the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. From the first...
The Shadow of the Great Game
The Untold Story of India's Partition
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The untold story of India's Partition.
The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic...