John Murray imprint: 305 books
Lancaster
The Second World War's Greatest Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Highlights...
Setting the East Ablaze
Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.'
Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel...
by Peter Hopkirk
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to...
Britain by the Book
A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?
How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?
Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales?
A multitude...
by Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's...
by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on...
Uncommon Sense
The popular misconceptions of business, investing and finance and how to profit by going against the tide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
How would you like to succeed in business and master investment by profiting in untapped areas that the masses know nothing about?
Uncommon Sense guides you to unique, little-known and commonly misunderstood strategies that generate lasting revenue and sustained results by going against the...
The 50 Secrets of Self-Confidence
The Confidence To Do Whatever You Want To Do
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
What would a little extra confidence mean to you?
You might do better at work, feel more comfortable in social situations, be more open to new experiences. Confidence can do amazing things for you.
If you've ever done anything well you already know how to do confidence. The secret is to know...
Sales for Non-Salespeople
How to sell yourself and your ideas, and succeed at work
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
If you know how to sell, you know how to succeed. Selling is the most important, and perhaps the most misunderstood workplace skill. Once you understand how to sell you will become more persuasive, naturally and confidently.
This book has four sections, enabling the reader to focus on their...
Up and Down Stairs
The History of the Country House Servant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous...
Lesley Blanch
Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print.
Emotions, she insisted,...
Selling in 4 Weeks
The Complete Guide to Success: Teach Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Selling In 4 Weeks is a comprehensive guide to sales, giving you everything you need to know in one place. Made up of four bestselling books in one, this book delivers a complete course in selling. From strategy and account management to negotiation and customer service you'll discover all the tools,...
Kenneth Williams: Born Brilliant
The Life of Kenneth Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles.
Born Brilliant includes previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal...
Total War
From Stalingrad to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime.
Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader...