Aurum Press: 240 books
Bedazzled
Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
"Bedazzled" is a fan's delight, the definitive compendium exploring every aspect of the "Twilight" phenomenon. Veteran author George Beahm delivers a guidebook to the four-novel series that is the ideal supplement to Meyer's "Twilight" saga. Jam-packed with new and reprinted...
Brew Britannia
The Strange Rebirth of British Beer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
How punter power pulled the humble pint back from the brink, this is the surprising story of a very British consumer revolt! Following a cast of bloody-minded City bankers, hippie microbrewers, style gurus, a Python, and a lot of men in pubs, Brew Britannia tells the story of the campaign to revitalise...
Crisis? What Crisis?
Britain in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday
The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, yet industrial strife was at a record...
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Britain in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable’ Mail on Sunday
'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the most entertaining’ Sunday Times
When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 she...
A Classless Society
Britain in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The first popular history of a decade that is yet to be defined or anatomised as the 1960s or 1970s have been, A Classless Society goes in search of a Britain still reeling from the conflicts of the Thatcher years.
Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer
An Anthology of Great Lives in 365 Days - The Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Telegraph’ s obituaries pages are renowned for their quality of writing and capacity to distil the essence of a life from its most extraordinary moments. A unique mix of heroism, ingenuity, infamy and the bizarre, Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer collects the very best of those obituaries to...
by Maureen Lipman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Life the Lipman way is always unexpected, and the hilarious and witty way in which she recalls her adventures and misadventures has made her a bestselling author and national treasure. Past-it Notes is the ultimate Maureen Lipman collection, drawing on choice material from her six previous books (re-visited...
An Audience with an Elephant
And Other Encounters on the Eccentric Side
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
An Audience with an Elephant is a compendium of the oddest and most eccentric travels - a travel book to set alongside Norman Lewis and Eric Newby for the sheer unpredictability of its encounters and its surreal comedy. But Bryon Rogers didn’ t venture to the ends of the earth to find singular custom...
Barack Obama
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Since delivering his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has been hailed as the clear saviour of not only the Democratic party, but of the integrity of American politics.
Despite the fact that he burst onto the national scene seemingly overnight, his name recognition...
Pigs Might Fly
The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Over 50 years since the release of their first studio album, Pink Floyd’s extraordinary style of music and aesthetic continues to amaze and inspire listeners of all generations. In this superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, acknowledged as the definitive book on this remarkable...
The Housekeeper's Tale
The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want – and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling...
The Last Englishman
The Life of J.L. Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
‘ A fine biography… Rogers has done a wonderful job’ Daily Telegraph
J. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique...
Killa
The Autobiography of Kevin Kilbane
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Kevin Kilbane is Ireland's third most capped player of all time, with 110 appearances for his country, including an incredible 66 consecutive matches.
He played more than 600 matches at professional level, and in Ireland is nothing less than a folk hero. But things could have been very different....
Leaves on the Line
Letters on Trains to the Daily Telegraph
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Whether it’s leaves on the line or the wrong kind of snow, whether the extortionately priced, curled-up sandwich on sale in the buffet car, or the militancy of the rail unions that seem to be endlessly on strike over nothing, everyone in Britain has an opinion about our railways. After the weather,...