Robson imprint: 55 books
by Ron Moody
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage and film versions of Oliver! - one of the great classics of British theatre and cinema. Now, in this highly original, idiosyncratic and often very funny memoir, he looks back on those early days, describing...
From Russia to Love
The Life and Music of Viktoria Mullova
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The great violinist Viktoria Mullova's story is one of striking contrasts and huge challenges. As a young musician she was a bright star in the Soviet musical firmament, but she stunned the world when she escaped the KGB and fled to the West, leaving behind her family, friends and all she knew. And...
Where Do Comedians Go When They Die?
Journey of a Stand-Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Jerome Stevens makes people laugh for a living. Or he tries to... The stand-up circuit is a world of extremes where money talks, agents slither and hecklers throw mince pies. It's hard to balance the demands of touring with family life - especially when Jerome is a star everywhere except his own home...
Shackleton's Heroes
The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The fabled figure of Sir Ernest Shackleton truly personifies the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. But, while the story of his ill-fated 1914–18 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and his crew’s narrow escape from death is legendary, less well known is the staggering tale of the six members...
Muckraker
The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities...
by Jeremy Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Why do women go for bastards? Not all women certainly, but an identifiable number of them - including almost all heiresses - find themselves drawn to, even marrying, a thoroughgoing wrong'un who steals their money, cheats on them and sometimes beats them up. Why, to these educated, rational, rich...
by Grant Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
My mate told me that I just don’t understand irony.
Which was ironic because we were at a bus stop at the time.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
An onion just told me a joke.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
A priest, a rabbi and a blind man walk into a...
by Grant Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
After making us laugh out loud with 5,000 Great One-Liners, Grant Tucker goes one better with this uproarious sequel! More One-Liners is another hilarious volume of the finest quips, zingers, puns and wisecracks known to humanity. From twists on the classics to modern greats, from A-grade antics to...
Modern Manners
The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
For many years Philip Howard has delighted Times readers with his wildly popular 'Modern Times' column, answering questions on contemporary etiquette and acting as confidant and gleeful guide to those attempting to avoid the pitfalls and perils of modern life. Now, drawing on that wealth of wisdom,...
The Odd Couple
The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Kingsley Amis was a mimic, jester, father, husband, atheist, pseudo-socialist and clubland Tory boozer with a limitless taste for adultery; Philip Larkin a glum misanthrope who lived in self-imposed solitude. And yet, after meeting at St John's, Oxford in 1941, this unlikely pair struck up a friendship...
The Boxer's Story
Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Before 1940, Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than enjoying his teenage years and becoming a champion boxer. But the Nazis’ systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different sort of fight, where the prize for victory...
The Lost Words
A Feast of Forgotten Words, Their Origins and Their Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Philip Howard's legendary 'Lost Words' column has been appearing weekly in The Times for many years, wittily illuminating a raft of the most obscure, esoteric words the English language has to offer. At the same time, his 'Word Watching' puzzles have provided readers with the chance to pit their lexicographical...
Twin Tracks
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
It was a blustery late spring day in 1954 and a young Oxford medical student flung himself over the line in a mile race. There was an agonising pause, and then the timekeeper announced the record: three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds. But no one heard anything after that first word - 'three'....
The Shark that Walks on Land
And Other Strange but True Tales of Mysterious Sea Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... When you dive into the sea, do you ever wonder what's down there, beneath you, poised to take an inquisitive bite? Author of Jaws Peter Benchley and film director Steven Spielberg certainly did, for below the waves lies a world we neither...