Short Books imprint: 58 books
A Tale of Trees
The battle to save Britain's ancient woodland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
We are a nation that loves its ancient woods and trees. We prize our sturdy oaks, craggy pines, bluebells and primroses, badgers and dormice. We value the history and heritage of places that have been woodland since before the Norman Conquest. But only a generation ago we were all set to wipe them...
The Orchid Hunter
A young botanist’s search for happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.
As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo
A rather unsual memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This book is the opposite of a misery memoir and is certainly safe to give to cancer patients as a cheerful present. More importantly, it sheds new light on:
• Why Kim Kardashian is worth Keeping Up With
• What playlists to make for MRI scans
• The truth behind the legend of Medea
• Bikini...
Being Adam Golightly
One man's bumpy voyage to the other side of grief
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The cruel early death of his beloved wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly’s middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life’s screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the crappy hand of fate.
This irreverent and...
by Zia Chaudhry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Too often we see Islam and Muslims portrayed as fanatical jihadists or helpless victims of western oppression. This book provides a rare insight into what, as the book's title states, the average Muslim makes of it all.Taking us on a personal journey from his time growing up in Liverpool in the 70s,...
by Jonathan Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
30th July 1966. For millions it was the greatest day of the greatest decade. They may never have seen the Beatles in the Cavern or danced at Woodstock, but they got to see the finest moment in English sporting history.
This is the story of that extraordinary 24 hours, told through the eyes...
by John O'Connell, Jessica Cargill Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2010
Are you Aged between 40 and 55? AAcutely conscious that life hasn't panned out quite the way you imagined it? A lot happier after a couple of glasses of wine? Getting divorced? Or consoling divorced friends? Having, or considering having, an affair? Tired and emotional and generally depressed? If...
How Good is Your Grammar?
100 quiz questions - The ultimate test to bring you up to scratch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
John Sutherland, one of Britain's most celebrated professors of English literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical.Why do purists insist that 'television' is wrong while 'telephone' is correct? Was Bill Clinton taking risks with...
Snow
The biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
**The Financial Times' Travel Book of the Year 2018**
How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman?
Where is the snowiest place on Earth?
When will the last snowflake fall?
Snow has a lot in common with religion.
It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an...
Out of the Woods
The armchair guide to trees
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Out of the Woods takes you on a revelatory ramble through country and city - from woodlands of majestic oak and ash to mean streets lined with cherries.Containing myriad tips for recognition and rich in tree-biography and gossip, this book will enable you to tell your birch from your beech as you...
My Itchy Dog
How to keep your dog in prime health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Canine expert Kate Bendix believes that many basic health issues have become so over-medicalised that dog owners today no longer trust their instincts and feel bound to rush to the vet for even the tiniest complaint. (Did you know that 50% of vet visits are for an itch?)
In My Itchy Dog, Kate...
Last Drink to LA
Confessions of an AA survivor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
I touched bottom, as alcoholics like to say, on 12 February 1983 (the date is slightly fuzzy). Thirty-one years ago John Sutherland nearly lost everything to drink. A married man, with family, working as a visiting professor of English on the west coast of America, he awoke from a blackout to find...
by Jonathan Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute
2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor.
Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. Hundreds of passengers and crew...
The Dog Diet
Eight weeks to a happier, healthier dog
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
We are what we eat. And the same goes for our dogs. . .
Over the past 20 years, our dogs' lives have come to mimic our own. They are overfed, under-exercised and stressed, and because of this they are increasingly taking on our shape and disease pattern. More than half the dogs in this country...