General interest
A Taste of Wartime Britain
A vivid and evocative collection of eyewitness accounts, diaries, reportage and scraps of memory from men, women and children who lived through the dark days of World War II.
Betty's Wartime Diary
A time which seems familiar to us today through film, but which was really another age, springs to life in the pages of Betty's Diary; funny, touching and unaffectedly vivid.
I Should Have Known Better
'A fascinating insider's account of an extraordinary period.' David Hockman, Chairman and CEO, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, USA
In War and Peace
In May 1940 an aircraft crashed near the Women's Auxiliary Air Force quarters at Detling in Kent. Corporal Daphne Pearson rushed out and, though she knew there were bombs on board, roused the pilot and helped him to get clear. When they were thirty yards clear the bomb went off and she threw herself over the pilot to protect him from the blast. This is Daphne's story.
Jellied Eels and Zeppelins
Ethel May Elvin, born when Edward VII was King in 1906, is one of the few remaining authentic voices of Edwardian working-class life. She tells Sue Taylor about her father's account of standing sentry at Queen Victoria's funeral, the privations and small pleasures of a working-class Edwardian childhood, growing up through the First World War and surviving the Second.
Maxim...ise!
maxim...ise! is not your usual collection of maxims, it is much more. A compilation of carefully curated quotes and maxims designed to provide a source of contemplation and inspiration for all those who are facing and navigating the challenges of a fast changing world.
Odd Words, Even Numbers
A first in the examination of the interrelationship between words and numbers, through mathematical games and diversions, word and mathematical puzzles, and popular mathematical concepts.
Playing Popular Piano & Keyboards
This book is for everyone who finds staves incomprehensible and scales depressing but just wants to play: an easy-to-learn but effective method that will have you playing whatever you want - whether R&B, rock, soul, blues, pop, jazz, urban/hip hop, or old standards - NOW!
Robert Lindsay Letting Go
The inside story of one of Britain’s best loved, best known actors, which reveals in his own words, for the first time, exactly what makes him tick.
The Sixth Form MBA
Essential guidance and advice for students on the skills required to succeed within higher education and most importantly, the world of work.
Very Private and Public Relations
In this searingly honest autobiography, Jim Dunn takes us on a rollicking ride from poor boy growing up gay in a small town on the west coast of Scotland to the five-star lifestyle of a PR guru in the fledgling travel industry of the early seventies in London.