Aurum Press: 240 books
Man vs Money
Understanding the curious economics that power our world
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in Bitcoin?
Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, money plays a role.
Getting it, keeping it and making more out of it has been one of man’s major preoccupations for the past five thousand years....
Telling Tales
Selected Writings, 1993-2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Spanning a writing career of over twenty years, acclaimed novelist and author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Amit Chaudhuri, is also one of the most gifted essayists and critics writing today, whose work has appeared in the pages of many of the most prestigious newspapers and journals in the...
Am I Missing Something...
Unpublished Letters from the Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
THE HILARIOUS ANNUAL COLLECTION OF READERS’ LETTERS THAT WERE JUST TOO LEFT-FIELD, OUTRAGEOUS OR WITTY TO MAKE THE PAGES OF THE TELEGRAPH.
‘ SIR – Two days of news about the Duchess of Cambridge, and you haven’ t yet told us about her hospital gown. Who designed it? How much did it...
Jean Harlow
Tarnished Angel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Jean Harlow was an enigma, the original Blonde Bombshell, completely uninhibited. She made no secret of the fact that she never wore underwear, bleached her pubic hair to match that on her head – and was never afraid of showing this to journalists, if
they asked.
On the screen she epitomised...
Doris Day
A Reluctant Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
With her bobbed, blonde hair and flashing smile, Doris Day was portrayed as the girl next door – a virginal girl that you could take home to your parents. In real life, she was not quite the happy-go-lucky blonde with the bubbly personality promoted by Warner Brothers who simply wanted to market...
Clark Gable
Tormented Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Gable was perceived as the archetypal Hollywood superman, the kind of man that women lusted after and their husbands envied. However, as David Bret reveals in this powerful biography, in the early days of his career, with his squinty teeth and fondness for men as well as woman, he was anything but...
Follow the Money
A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
**‘ Fantastic debut’ Time Out 5-Star Review
'Its randomness is its joy' The Independent
'A picaresque travelogue about chasing an idea through down-home modern America.' The Times **
What do you do if you want to get underneath the skin of a country, to understand its people...
This Charming Man
The Life of Ian Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The first life of the man who was Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster and starred in I’ m Alright, Jack!
With the death of Ian Carmichael in 2010 one of the last links was lost with the golden age of British cinema. Carmichael starred alongside Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers in the Boulting...
by Byron Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Byron Rogers’ biography of Wales’ s national poet and vicar, R.S. Thomas has been hailed as a ‘ masterpiece’ , even as a work of ‘ genius’ , by reviewers from Craig Brown to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Within someone considered a wintry, austere and unsociable curmudgeon, Rogers...
Top Man
How Philip Green built his High Street Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Philip Green, owner of, amongst much else, British Home Stores, reached billionaire status faster than anyone else in British history. Today he is worth £ 3.6 billion and is reckoned to be the country’ s fourth richest citizen. A middle-class Jewish boy from North London who left school at fifteen,...
Sail
A tribute to the world's greatest races, sailors and their boats
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Whether it is to test the high seas on around-the-world events in the glory of 49er yachts, to cut through choppy coastal waters on a Lazer racing for Olympic Gold or to set team against team in the great cup challenges, Sail is a celebration of the adventure and skill of one of mankind's oldest...
Imagine My Surprise...
Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series – guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement.
The first volume of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in Thinking… ?, not only became a Christmas bestseller...
by Iain Hollingshead
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
New in the best-selling series of Unpublished Letters, this is a year in review made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
In a year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The...
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
The WW11 Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications...