Michael O Mara: 334 books
Angel of Death
Killer Nurse Beverly Allitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
It made national headlines: the true story of how state enrolled nurse Beverley Allitt murdered four children on her ward and attempted to take the lives of many others. Liam Taylor's death, on 21 February 1991, was to become the first in a string of infanticides carried out by the soon-to-be-notorious...
Spanish to go
A weekend's worth of essential words and phrases
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Getting to grips with a foreign language is never easy, and most phrase books are too convoluted to help you when you really need it. Spanish to go is here to help. Using everyday Spanish for everyday scenarios, this book is your passport to survival at the airport, in bars and restaurants, hotels...
Bizarre England
Discover the Country's Secrets and Surprises
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
An alternative journey around England, visiting the sights that are definitely not on the average tourist trail. In this charming book, David Long introduces the reader to some of the oddest and most interesting sights in England, such as: * Devon's Gnome Reserve * Britain's smallest pub * A church for...
by Mark Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
It doesn't take much to get an Old Fart complaining - whether it's about the price of electricity, reality TV, muesli, the metric system, self-checkouts or smoothies. It seems the whole world has it in for him and it's no wonder that he finds himself beginning most sentences with 'I remember when...'...
How to Be a Cat
Kitty Pusskin's Guide to Living with Humans and Getting the Upper Paw
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Written by a cat, and with helpful insights by other cats, How to Be a Cat is essential reading not just for all felines but also for their owners and cat lovers alike … if only to get an insight into their pet’s sometimes curious behaviour. As you'd expect from a book written by a cat about humans,...
The Forties
Good Times Just Around the Corner
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Told largely in the words of people who lived through this extraordinary time, The Forties: Good Times Just Around the Corner is a vividly remembered account of the most important decade of the twentieth century. With original photographs and memorabilia of every kind, this is a book for anyone interested...
Brian and Me
Life on - and off - The Archers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Since 1975 Charles Collingwood has also been known as Brian Aldridge - 'the JR of Ambridge' - the upper-class charmer with more than a dash of naughty wickedness. Charles' alter-ego has kept him pretty busy, from affairs and illegitimate children, to ventures into the sausage business. His long-suffering...
The Loo Companion
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Pull up a seat and take a pit stop with this amusing toilet book. The Loo Companion is a hilarious and entertaining addition to any bathroom, guaranteed to expand your mind and make you laugh whenever nature calls. This book contains pages of trivia, news stories, historic references, quotes, anecdotes,...
Lost Britain
An A-Z of forgotten landmarks and lost traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
From vanished villages and bygone businesses to abandoned architecture, forgotten pastimes and projects put on hold, Lost Britain tells the intriguing story of Britain’s buildings, counties, transport, languages, roads and rivers that have been forgotten over the centuries. The book shines a light...
Roman Woman
Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Roman Britain is vividly portrayed in this fascinating and authentically detailed story about a year in the life of an ordinary woman and her family. The year is AD 133. Hadrian is Emperor of Rome and all its vast empire, including Britannia. The greater part of that island has long been under imperial...
An Unkindness of Ravens
A Book of Collective Nouns
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A beautifully packaged, highly enjoyable collection that showcases the most unusual and interesting collective nouns in the English language—from the author of A Certain "Je Ne Sois Quoi"
Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud?...
Where's the Llama?
A Whole Llotta Llamas to Search and Find
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF THE BESTSELLING WHERE'S THE UNICORN?, GET READY FOR A WHOLE LLOTTA LLAMA DRAMA! Word has reached the Andes that everyone’s going bananas over llamas! Intrigued, an intrepid herd of fun-loving llamas have decided to ‘alpaca’ their bags and embark on an incredible round-the-world...
by Les Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Les Dawson is at his funniest in this, his last book, which he described as: 'A record of an era so lusty and physical that it makes the reader want to wear a truss.' Within these pages the devoted reader will find the real Quasimodo ('a dwarf whose sword was so swift it could sever a trout's eyebrows...
by Adam Hart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
This work presents 100 stories of weird and wonderful inventions, full-blown and well-developed disasters of what seemed to be brilliant inventions that fell at the first fence, or sometimes the second, like the first steam-powered submarine, still lying on the sea bed off North Wales.