Mainstream Digital imprint: 404 books
Bouncers and Bodyguards
Tales from a Twilight World
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Bouncers and Bodyguards is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures.
Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his local in the early '70s before being banged...
Mysterious Scotland
Enigmas, Secrets and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Mysterious Scotland presents an extraordinary array of the weird and wonderful heritage of the country. Michael Balfour examines strange stories from the moors, forests, rivers, holy wells and lochs, where - as well as the old legends and dark secrets which he prises out of palaces, castles and cathedrals...
by Colin Ward, Chris Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters – who later earned a reputation as the most dangerous fans in Britain - as well as the band Combat 84 who, with their punk attitude and uncut, Orwellian lyrics, represented the antithesis of middle-class England.
After the jailing of Stephen...
Devil Incarnate
A Depraved Mercenary's Lifelong Swathe of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Athol Visser, or 'Ivan the Terrible', is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe. He killed his first victim at 16, his last at 60, and, in between, has been a mercenary, drug smuggler, gun runner and spy.
In his own words, Visser takes us on a chilling...
Aleister Crowley
The Beast Demystified
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) - mystic, writer, poet, astrologer, sexual revolutionary, painter, mountain climber and social critic - has a terrifying reputation. The contemporary press labelled him the 'wickedest man in the world', while he called himself the 'great beast'. Crowley dabbled in the...
The Cevennes Journal
Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.' - RLS
In September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled by donkey through the Cevennes region of France. For personal memory - and, as it happens, for literary posterity - the young...
Call the Fire Brigade!
Fighting London's Fires in the '70s
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Working as a fireman in London’s East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-and-safety legislation had started to exert its grip, Allan Grice had to cut his fire-and-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew....
Deadly Beat
Inside the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK'
This was the world inhabited by...
Chasing Killers
Three Decades of Cracking Crime in the UK's Murder Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson. For over 30 years, Jackson worked the crime beat, first as a uniformed cop then as a seasoned murder squad detective. In this hard-hitting memoir of his most memorable cases, he reveals the reality...
Voices from the Back of the Bus
Tall Tales and Hoary Stories from Rugby's Real Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players recall the scrapes, the games, the laughs, the glory and the gritty reality of the pre-professional...
by John Burrowes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
There are few cities in the world to rival Glasgow and the extraordinary happenings that have occurred there, and in this engrossing sequel to Great Glasgow Stories, more of the finest of these are recounted.
From the story of the biggest youth movement the world has ever known to the life...
Roars from the Back of the Bus
Rugby Tales of Life with the Lions
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game, showing that relationships forged through experiences on a Lions tour last a lifetime.
From the...
Arsenal All 4-1
A Guidebook to an Historic Season Straight from Highbury's Gooner Grapevine
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The 2003-04 football season was a landmark in the Gunners' already illustrious history. Consolation for the Arsenal's costly Cup exits could come in the form of an achievement the like of which might never again be repeated. as they remained undefeated in the Premiership right to the end of a triumphant...
Arsenal on the Double
Overdrawn, Under The Weather, Overslept, Underpants, Over The Moon, Under The Table - A Terrace Take On The Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
These are heady times at Highbury. Gobsmacked Gooners have been 'giving it large' over their glorious Double victory after three long years of playing bridesmaid to their northern nemesis.
Arsenal on the Double is an intimate account of the most exciting season since the inception of the Premier...