Aurum Press: 240 books
A Season in the Red
Managing Man UTD in the shadow of Sir Alex Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
What does it feel like to follow in the footsteps of Britain's most successful manager? To have your every decision, move and word scrutinised worldwide? How do you capture the heart and soul of Manchester United? With unrivalled access to Old Trafford, Jamie Jackson charts the disastrous ten-month...
Kings of the Saddle
Ireland's Greatest Jockeys
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The recent retirement of Mick Kinane, doyen of flat racing jockeys whose swansong was his 2009 Classic victories on the great Sea the Stars, reminded us once again how many of the greatest jockeys in racing, over jumps as well as on the flat, hail from Ireland.
Brian O’ Connor is the experienced...
Banker to the Poor
The Story of the Grameen Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in his home country of Bangladesh with a loan of just £ 17, to lend tiny amounts of money to the poorest of the poor - those to whom no ordinary bank would lend. Most of his customers - as they still are - were illiterate women, wanting to set up the smallest...
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
by Alanna Nash
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King – the man and the phenomenon – in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis’ s closest friends, who were also...
The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe
The Shocking True Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
In his illuminating, fascinating book, Keith Badman finally uncovers the truth about the icon’ s last years.
It was a tough time – one in which the star’ s increasingly erratic behaviour and dependence on alcohol and medication plunged her glittering movie career into drastic decline....
Errol Flynn
Gentleman Hellraiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
With his stunning looks and swashbuckling onscreen panache Errol Flynn was by all appearances the quintessential movie star who had it all. But Flynn's manicured Hollywood persona did little to hide his insatiable appetites off-screen - the binge drinking, brawling and womanising that would forever...
David Niven
The Man Behind the Balloon
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
David Niven appeared in films for over 50 years of his life, from swashbucklers such as The Prisoner of Zenda and The Guns of Navarone to the Pink Panther series. Despite his on-screen persona, Niven wasn’ t always the perfect gentleman. He was insecure both privately and professionally and used...
Margaret Rutherford
Dreadnought with Good Manners
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain’ s best-loved comic actresses. But behind the kindly, serene front Rutherford presented to the world lay a life of trauma and repeated nervous breakdown – the legacy of the legacy of family tragedy that saw her father murder her grandfather...
The Scientists
A Family Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
‘ Marco Roth’ s book about his father is a farewell to a bygone culture – polygot, intellectual, Europhile, psychoanalytic – and simultaneously a renewal of that culture. It’ s moving, tough-minded, and distinctive, a memoir the likes of which nobody else could write.’ Benjamin Kunkel,...
Tim Burton
The iconic filmmaker and his work
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland. He is famed for the visually arresting style of his films that combine with highly original...
The Novels of Raymond Chandler: A Short Guide
A Short Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Tom Williams is the author of 'A Mysterious Something in the Light', the biography of Raymond Chandler, the man who defined modern crime fiction.
Taking inspiration from novels such as The Big Sleep, The High Window and The Lady in the Lake Tom presents an introduction to Chandler's novels...
Royalty Inc
Britain's Best-Known Brand
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
It is an amazing feat in the 21st century that Queen Elizabeth II, a small, elderly woman in her mid-eighties, should be one of the most recognisable people on the planet. Her voice is redolent of another era, her interests are esoteric to many of her people, her opinions on anything from the weather...
What a Thing to Say to the Queen
A collection of royal anecdotes from the House of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
About thirty years ago the Guardian first published two amusing anecdotes about the Queen Mother. Readers reeled to see stories actually printed in a national newspaper that until then had had only an underground existence in certain circles. After that, tales about the royal family became respectable;...