Highlights 2022
The Prince and the Plunder
How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia Andrew Heavens Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia’s ‘Elgin Marbles’ and a young African prince brought to live in Victorian Britain • While tapping into debates about cultural restitution, this particular tale of imperial loot is still developing, as reported in The Guardian • Supporters of the campaign to return the Maqdala treasures to Ethiopia include Lemn Sissay and Stephen Fry • Reveals what really happened during the British expedition to Ethiopia, an event familiar to readers of George MacDonald Fraser’s novel Flashman on the March
Jun-22 £20.00 9780750997362 HBK 234 x 156mm, 272 pages 30 b&w illustrations World Rights
‘Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child’ – LEMN SISSAY
Andrew Heavens has worked for newspapers and press agencies for almost thirty years, including six years as a reporter and photographer in Ethiopia and Sudan. He grew up in Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt, and lives in London.
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The Queen
70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II Ian Lloyd A fresh look at the full and fascinating life of Queen Elizabeth II in the year of her Platinum Jubilee • Published ahead of the celebrations in June 2022, marked by a four-day bank holiday • Features 70 topic-led chapters on all aspects of her life • Offers fresh insight into the Queen’s habits and interests, using the author’s previously unpublished interviews with close friends and relatives • By the bestselling author of The Duke: ‘Jaunty, fun and informative … a multifaceted account’ – Tatler
Apr-22 £15.99 9780750998567 HBK 216 x 138mm, 304 pages 29 b&w illustrations World Rights
• Includes a wealth of material on her early life, providing something completely new for those who are more familiar with the version of events in The Crown • A companion book to The Duke on Prince Philip, serialised by The Mail on Sunday • By an expert on royalty with numerous influential contacts across print and broadcast media
Ian Lloyd has spent twenty years as a full-time writer and photographer, specialising in the British Royal Family. He has had two books in the Sunday Times bestseller list (both 2011) and writes regular features for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Hello! and Majesty. Ian is also the Royal Correspondent for the Sunday Post and a regular royal pundit on Sky News, BBC News and BBC Radio 5 Live. He lives in Oxford.
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Thorns in the Crown
The Story of the Coronation and what it Meant for Britain Barry Turner The first book to explore the challenges facing the Royal Family on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s ascension in February 2022 and the paperback ahead of the 70th anniversary of the coronation in June 2023 • There is a renewed interest in the monarchy following the popularity of Netflix’s The Crown and the ongoing fallout from Harry and Meghan leaving the Royal Family • Whatever the future of the monarchy – more of the same or the accession of Charles – there will be strong reader interest in what has gone before
Jan-22 £20.00 9780750998130 HBK 234 x 156mm, 224 pages 16 b&w illustrations UK & Commonwealth Rights
Serialised in Telegraph Magazine and featured in Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Lady. ‘… down-to-earth and insightful’ – Daily Mail ‘The untold story of Elizabeth II’s first year on the throne’ – Daily Telegraph
Barry Turner is a bestselling historian whose many books include Suez 1956, When Daddy Came Home (with Tony Rennell), Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich (Icon, 2015) – ‘a page-turning narrative’ (Daily Mail) – and The Berlin Airlift (Icon, 2017) – ‘a fine piece of popular history’ (BBC History). His latest book, Waiting for War, was published by Icon in 2019.
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Scandal at Dolphin Square A Notorious History Simon Danczuk & Daniel Smith
The first book to tell the scandalfilled story of Dolphin Square, the UK’s most notorious address. Includes a host of first-hand interviews from the likes of John Blashford-Snell, Max Mosley, William and Graeme Steel and Norman Scott (the former lover of Jeremy Thorpe) • Simon Danczuk, no stranger to scandal himself, is the bestselling author of Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith, the Sunday Times Political Book of the Year • Following the runaway success of A Very English Scandal by John Preston, this remains a very popular genre
Feb-22 £20.00 9780750997140 HBK 234 x 156mm, 256 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
Exclusive serial sold to Telegraph Magazine and featured on BBC and Times Radio. ‘... rollicking romp of a book’ – Mail on Sunday **** ‘… as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.’ – JEREMY VINE ‘Danczuk and Smith’s entertaining history zips along’ – MICHAEL CRICK ‘If only the walls could talk’ – IAIN DALE
Simon Danczuk is the former MP for Rochdale and co-author of the bestselling Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith (Biteback, 2014) and has written extensively for the national press. Daniel Smith is the author of the acclaimed The Peer and the Gangster (THP, 2020).
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Tangled Souls
Love and Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy Jane Dismore The glittering and sometimes shocking story of the love affair between two members of the Souls, unconventional aristocrats at the heart of late Victorian society • ‘With painstaking skill, Dismore lays bare the double standards of the Souls’ – Artemis Cooper • The Souls rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells, and among their number was a future prime minister • Explores in depth the scandalous romance between Harry Cust MP and Nina Welby Gregory • Tackles longstanding rumours that Cust was Margaret Thatcher’s real grandfather
Feb-22 £20.00 9780750996624 HBK 234 x 156mm, 320 pages 14 b&w illustrations World Rights excl. US/Can
‘...an upper-class soap opera to rival Downton Abbey and The Crown’ – The Lady (Book Club Pick)
Jane Dismore is a freelance historian and biographer. Her books include Duchesses (Blink), which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday, and Princess (Thistle; Lyons) on the early life of Elizabeth II, a source for the recent ITV and PBS documentary Our Queen in Wartime. She is a former practising solicitor and a member of the Society of Authors and the Biographers’ Club.
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Hellfire
Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club David Fleming The first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University’s hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous members • Similar in style to and evokes the same period as D.J. Taylor’s bestselling group biography Bright Young People (7k sales over two editions) and Paula Byrne’s Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (8k sales in paperback) • The Roaring Twenties continues to fascinate a century later, particularly the exploits of Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young Things • New BBC/HBO adaptation of Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited to air in 2022
Sep-22 £20.00 9780750999281 HBK 234 x 156mm, 288 pages 20 b&w illustrations UK & Commonwealth rights excl. Canada
• Other members of the Hypocrites Club featured are the famous authors Anthony Powell, Henry Yorke and Robert Byron, journalist Claud Cockburn, controversial Labour MP Tom Driberg, Alfred Duggan, a super-wealthy alcoholic who had a car and chauffeur on standby to take him up to London to see his mistress, and writers Harold Acton and Brian
David Fleming has been an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a journalist, whose articles have appeared in the Guardian, Independent, The Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday. He co-wrote Barging around Britain (Penguin, 2015) with John Sergeant, which accompanied the BBC television series.
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The Microdot Gang
The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World James Wyllie A jazz critic, an anarchist, a chemist, a cad ... and the biggest drug bust in UK history • This is the extraordinary story of how a middle-aged American academic, two idealistic British students, a public school cad and an American hustler formed the Microdot Gang and created an acid production line designed to turn on the world • This is also a tale of how a cultural movement became a criminal enterprise, inspiring the war on drugs and launching a revolution that left an enduring and complex legacy
Jun-22 £20.00 9780750996006 HBK 234 x 156mm, 240 pages 10 b&w illustrations UK & Commonwealth
• The first time the story has been told in its entirety, covering the full international picture • Broad themes including counterculture, music, drug history and nostalgia; will also find a market with true crime fans
James Wyllie is an author, award-winning screenwriter and broadcaster. He is the author of Goering and Goering and Nazi Wives [TCM: 1959. THP Sales: 5755; 3274 hbk; 2481 ebook]. He has worked on numerous films for the BBC and Film4 and has written for a number of TV drama series.
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Vicious, Elegant Bastards The Truth Behind the Legend of the Krays Jacky Hyams
The first book to examine the truth behind the legend of the Krays, written by bestselling Kray family biographer Jacky Hyams. Several unpublished revelations are revealed here for the first time, including what really happened to Ronnie’s close associate, ‘Mad’ Teddy Smith • The first book of its kind, Vicious, Elegant Bastards is written by a bestselling Kray specialist • Fascination with the Kray twins remains as strong as ever, 50 years on from their reign of murder and intimidation
Mar-22 £20.00 9780750992480 HBK 234 x 156mm, 256 pages World Rights
Jacky Hyams is the bestselling author of Bombsites and Lollipops (John Blake, 2011). More recently, she has written Frances Kray: The Tragic Bride (John Blake, 2014) and co-wrote One of the Family with Maureen Flanagan (Century, 2015).
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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World What China’s Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere Mark L. Clifford
A gripping history of China’s deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world • By the former editor-in-chief of both Hong Kong’s Englishlanguage newspapers, with personal connections to many organisers of the protest movement • The author’s work has appeared in a wide range of international media including the BBC, CNN, The Economist and The New York Times
Feb-22 £20.00 9780750999465 HBK 234 x 156mm, 304 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights
• The year 2022 marks 25 years since the handover of Hong Kong; the date President Xi Jinping would have left power, had he not abolished term limits; and renewed popular unrest as COVID-19 restrictions loosen Serialised in iNewspaper. ‘If you want to understand Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party and the threat to freedom itself, you must make it a top priority to read this book’ – BENEDICT ROGERS (co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch)
Mark L. Clifford is executive director of the Asia Business Council, editorial chair of the Asian Review of Books and a board member at Next Digital. He served as editorin-chief of both English-language papers in Hong Kong, The Standard and the South China Morning Post. An honours history graduate of UC Berkeley and a fellow at Columbia University, he holds a University of Hong Kong PhD in Hong Kong history.
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Understanding J. Bruce Ismay
The True Story of the Man They Called ‘The Coward of Titanic’ Clifford Ismay An insight into the man at the heart of the world’s most infamous maritime disaster • The Ismay name is one of the most powerful in maritime history: Bruce’s father, Thomas Henry Ismay was the founder of the White Star Line; and Bruce took over as chairman of the White Star Line • Constantly asked, are you related to the coward of Titanic?”, Clifford Ismay felt compelled to investigate the man behind the negative portrayal made famous across movies and books alike
Apr-22 £14.99 9780750998666 PBK 216 x 138mm, 224 pages 47 b&w illustrations World Rights
• New study based on research and many unpublished documents, illustrated with a beautiful selection of archive photographs, reveals that the ‘real’ Ismay was a sensitive, shy man, plagued with PTSD from the disaster than haunted him for the rest of his life
Clifford Ismay is currently engaged as director of Maryport Maritime Museum. Until the death of its founder he was privileged to have been Governor and Northern England representative for the Titanic Heritage Trust, and is a member of the British Titanic Society. He has appeared in many Titanic documentaries and been interviewed for television and radio news, and given a number of talks on the subject. He lives in Cumbria.
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Recreating Titanic & Her Sisters A Visual History J. Kent Layton, Tad Fitch & Bill Wormstedt
Bringing the world of Titanic and her sisters back to life as never before through the captivating original artwork of talented artists • New book written and curated by three expert maritime authors vividly recalls the glory and drama of the age • Released in time for the 110th anniversary of Titanic’s sinking
March 2022 £40.00 9780750998680 HBK 250 x 250mm, 192 pages 180 colour illustrations World Rights
• A visual extravaganza on all fronts, utilising a variety of photographic and illustrative techniques combined with historic photos, art, and 3D graphics, information boxes, and a succinct but meaningful main text
J. Kent Layton has written/co-written many articles and books, including The Unseen Mauretania and The Unseen Aquitania. His New York-based family business restores pianos. Tad Fitch has worked in psychology and school administration. He has co-authored five books including Report into the Loss of SS Titanic and Into the Danger Zone, his books twice nominated for the Mountbatten Award. Bill Wormstedt has written/co-written many articles and books, including The Lifeboat Launching Sequence Re-Examined, Report Into the Loss of SS Titanic, and Titanic: Solving the Mysteries.
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My Grandfather’s Knife
And Other Stories of War and Belongings Dr Joseph Pearson An enthralling and beautifully written account of how everyday objects can unlock human stories from the Second World War • A vital new perspective on Nazi Germany from a prize-winning cultural historian and academic • By the acclaimed author of Berlin (2017): ‘The last word in explaining not only Berlin’s incredible history, but also its present-day cultural situation’ – Independent • Includes first-hand accounts from witnesses who have never been interviewed before, such as Joseph Goebbels’s cook
Apr-22 £16.99 9780750997393 HBK 216 x 138mm, 288 pages 126 b&w illustrations UK & Commonwealth Rights excl. Can
‘Pearson’s astonishing detective work has uncovered stories so poignant and original that they cannot fail to leave an indelible mark’ – JULIA BOYD ‘Literary non-fiction at its best’ – NORMAN OHLER ‘Important and genuinely insightful’ – DAVID O’KEEFE
Dr Joseph Pearson was born in Canada and studied at Middlebury College in Vermont and at the University of Cambridge. He taught at Columbia University and currently lectures at the Barenboim-Said Academy. He is the author of Berlin (Reaktion Press), a portrait of the city in which he now lives and works.
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Syndrome K
How Italy Resisted the Final Solution Christian Jennings For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English. Set against the strong and compelling account of how the Final Solution unfolded in Italy, the book focuses on the personal stories of twelve dramatic and colourful characters • The information is sourced from documents, reports, letters and personal accounts from museums and archives in Italy, Germany, Israel, Britain and the United States • While the backdrop is the Holocaust, the book focuses on the stories of Italian Jewish families who managed to survive, giving the book resolution and an upbeat ending
Apr-22 £20.00 9780750996556 HBK 234 x 156mm, 288 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign correspondent and author. Since 1988, across 23 countries, he has been an author and journalist on international current affairs, modern history and popular science for publications ranging from The Economist and Reuters to Wired, The Guardian, and The Scotsman. His book At War on the Gothic Line (Osprey, 2016), was described in The Spectator as ‘military history at its most engaging’. He is also author of Anatomy of a Massacre (THP, 2021).
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Accelerate!
A History of the 1990s James Brooke-Smith A kaleidoscopic history of the 1990s, a decade of fin-de-siècle hope and exuberance – plus the events, ideas and people who made and broke it • Social and cultural history told with dazzling verve; narrative non-fiction at its finest • Combines the appeal of social history by the likes of David Kynaston and Dominic Sandbrook with the accessible, iconoclastic sensibilities of Jon Ronson and Geoff Dyer • Covers a range of eye-popping topics from psychedelic culture, millenarian cults, Y2K survivalists and high-art pornographers
Sep-22 £20.00 9780750996839 HBK 234 x 156mm, 304 pages 18 colour illustrations UK, Commonwealth and Europe rights
• International in scope, from Californian surfers to Berlin techno heads, Brit conceptual artists and anti-McDonalds protestors in France • Caters to the emerging nostalgia for 1990s culture, as demonstrated by the success of music books such as The KLF by John Higgs (10k TCM) and Retromania by Simon Reynolds (12.5k). This will be the first book to address the whole picture
James Brooke-Smith is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Ottawa. His first book, Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School, was published in by Reaktion Books to excellent reviews in 2019: ‘Entertaining and rather racy … the details are glorious and told with relish’ – Financial Times; ‘Highly entertaining cultural history’ – Alex Renton, Spectator.
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An Island’s Eleven The Story of Sri Lankan Cricket Nicholas Brookes
This first book to tell the full story of cricket in Sri Lanka is sure to be a contender for sports book awards • Sri Lanka’s cricketing history is remarkable. Its tale needs to be fully told – the strange and wonderful moments, warts and all – before parts of it are lost to the world forever • Sales of similar cricketing titles have been strong: The Wounded Tiger, Fire in Babylon and Out of the Ashes in particular • Will feature a foreword from an international cricketer
Jul-22 £25.00 9780750998819 HBK 234 x 156mm, 512 pages 20 colour illustrations UK & Commonwealth excl. Sri Lanka & Indian Subcontinent
‘This book should be in the library of every serious cricket lover … A great debut from a serious sports historian.’ – PETER OSBORNE, bestselling author of Wounded Tiger: A History of Cricket in Pakistan ‘This is a great tale, and what’s more, it’s beautifully told.’ – SIMON BARNES ‘Packed full of brilliant stories, wonderfully told. An essential addition to cricket literature.’ – TIM WIGMORE, author of Cricket 2.0 (Wisden Book of the Year 2020)
Nicholas Brookes is an English writer, who has been based in Colombo since April 2018. He has covered Sri Lankan cricket and its history for international publications including ESPN’s The Cricket Monthly and Wisden’s The Nightwatchman.
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The Art of Film
Designing James Bond, Aliens, Batman and More Terry Ackland-Snow with Wendy Laybourn Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow lifts the lid on his extraordinary career in cinema. Terry is a legendary figure in the film industry, responsible for designing the Batmobile in Tim Burton’s Batman (among many other achievements) • Terry’s global reputation will help drive international sales • Follows the success of Stars and Wars and Making Movie Magic • Features many unpublished images and production sketches, and a wealth of amusing and revealing anecdotes
Mar-22 £25.00 9780750997423 HBK 245 x 190mm, 256 pages 200 colour illustrations World Rights
Exclusive six-page feature and a four-star review in Total Film, a review in DVD Choice, coverage in SFX and BAFTA news. ‘... one of the British film industry’s most respected art directors, cooking up sets, effects and vehicles for some of the biggest films ever shot on these shores.’ – Total Film
Terry Ackland-Snow has worked on film sets since he was 18 and has been the Chair of the British Film Designers Guild, as well as an adjudicator for the BAFTAs. Since retiring in 2001, Terry has turned his hand to teaching, setting up Film Design International at Pinewood Studios to share his expert knowledge with the next generation of film designers.
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‘You Dirty Old Man!’ The Authorized Biography of Wilfrid Brambell David Clayton
The first definitive biography of one of Britain’s most complex actors, Wilfrid Brambell • Features interviews with Galton and Simpson and Joan Reddin (Brambell’s agent), and fellow actors who worked alongside him, such as Phil Davis and Anna Karen • Through the co-operation of his nephew, the book will contain a number of rarely seen photographs (both professional and personal) • Should attract plenty of serial interest • Sales of our Harry H. Corbett biography show there is still a big market for this
Aug-22 £20.00 9780750996709 HBK 234 x 156mm, 224 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
David Clayton is an acclaimed biographer, whose titles include The Richard Beckinsale Story and The Curse of Sherlock Holmes: The Basil Rathbone Story (both published by THP).
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No Case to Answer
The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery Andrew Cook The first book to make use of recently released government files detailing the men who got away with the Great Train Robbery • The author has had exclusive access to newly released documents, closed files and Freedom of Information disclosures from the Met, BOAC and the French police • The author’s previous book on the Great Train Robbery was a bestseller, and he is a recognised expert on the case
Apr-22 £20.00 9780750993869 HBK 234 x 156mm, 224 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
Andrew Cook is an author and TV consultant. He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today. His previous books include Ace of Spies (Tempus Publishing); M: MI5’s First Spymaster (Tempus Publishing); The Great Train Robbery (The History Press); and 1963: That Was the Year That Was (The History Press).
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A Desperate Business The Murder of Muriel McKay Simon Farquhar
The gripping story of one of the most frightening murder cases in British criminal history, which sparked, at the time, the biggest manhunt the country had ever seen • The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the kidnapping and murder of Muriel McKay • Makes use of recently released police files, which reveal an entirely new dimension to the story, elements that the time is now absolutely right to explore, in the light of #metoo and Black Lives Matter, and as the law debates whether killers who refuse to reveal the location of their victims should ever be granted parole
Sep-22 £16.99 9780750997232 HBK 216 x 135mm, 288 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
• As well as access to the police files and planned interviews with all surviving officers who worked on the case and those members of the public who were involved, the author access to all newsreel and documentary footage held in the television archives • The author’s previous book, A Dangerous Place, was nominated for a CWA Gold Dagger for NonFiction in 2016
Simon Farquhar is the CWA-nominated author of A Dangerous Place (THP, 2016). He writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian and The Independent, appears on true crime documentaries, and has also written for the stage and radio.
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Gloriana
Elizabeth I and the Art of Queenship Siobhan Clarke & Linda Collins
Breakspear
The story of England’s first great queen and how she wielded power with a meticulously crafted image
The first biography in over a century of Adrian IV, the only English pope in history – ‘a charmingly readable account of a remarkable pope’ (Simon Jenkins)
• A fresh look at Elizabeth I that places Tudor art front and centre
The English Pope R.A.J. Waddingham
• Lavishly illustrated with iconic as well as lesser-known images of one of England’s greatest-ever monarchs
• A remarkable medieval life, spanning post-conquest England, crusade and battle-torn Europe
• By the acclaimed authors of The Tudors, a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year: ‘The authors’ expertise in the period – in particular its architectural and art treasures – shines through, telling the reader everything they need to know about this iconic dynasty’
• For the 6 million Catholics in the UK, and readers of The Light Ages (3k HB), The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England (10k HB; 220k PB) and Thomas Becket (5kb HB; 7k PB)
Jun-22 £16.99 9780750997546 HBK 216 x 138mm, 224 pages 25 colour illustrations World Rights
Aug-22 £22.00 9780750999540 HBK 234 x 156mm, 320 pages 12 colour illustrations World Rights
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The Radio Front
The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45 Ron Bateman
A comprehensive account of how the Home Service utilised radio to win over the wartime public • Less than two decades after the first broadcast in November 1922, public radio became an effective weapon of psychological warfare when news and propaganda became virtually indistinguishable • Revealing the level of disharmony between the government, the BBC and the military, and the reaction of the public • With a foreword by Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son
May-22 £17.99 9780750996648 PBK 234 x 156mm, 256 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
Remarkable Women of the Second World War A Collection of Untold Stories Victoria Panton Bacon
Capturing the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things through the turbulent years of the Second World War • The follow-on book to Victoria Panton Bacon’s widely-acclaimed Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War • Twelve varied and poignant accounts encapsulate the spirit of womanhood during these tumultuous years • With a foreword by the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP
Jun-22 £18.99 9780750999960 HBK 234 x 156mm, 192 pages 12 b&w illustrations World Rights
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The Coal Black Sea
Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War Stuart Heaver
This book reveals for the first time the extraordinary true story of the worst naval catastrophe of the First World War and how Churchill covered it up • The Coal Black Sea is a lively wartime drama exposing how those on the front line were betrayed by the political elite • The author has skilfully picked apart official records and archival documents to reveal a web of doctored information that has been believed for over a century
Jun-22 £20.00 9780750999601 HBK 234 x 156mm, 224 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
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Fight for Falklands Freedom
Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands Harold Briley
A unique eyewitness contribution to history on the Falklands conflict and background • This comprehensive Falklands history puts the conflict in the context of political, diplomatic and historical influences, and reveals why it happened, 40 years on • Incorporates accounts of the conflict with many of the author’s broadcast reports from the time
May-22 £12.99 9780750999533 PBK 198 x 129mm, 240 pages 20 b&w illustrations World Rights
Illustrated Mauretania (1907) Notable Episodes in the Life of a Legend David F. Hutchings
Illustrated history reveals the many experiences of Mauretania (1907) across an illustrious career • Presenting a full and complete story through many rare photographs • Latest study from an expert maritime author, inspired by his award-winning talk • Filling the inevitable visual gaps in his acclaimed text-focussed work, Mauretania (1907): Queen of the Ocean
Mar-22 £25.00 9780750997157 PPC 224 x 245mm, 168 pages 206 b&w, 43 colour illustrations World Rights
Canadian Pacific Ships The History of a Company and its Ships Ian Collard
Canadian Pacific was established in the nineteenth century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific: this is the story of its development and its ships • Illustrated history of Canada’s largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamship until the end of the Second World War, transporting many immigrants to Canada • Includes such vessels as the Empress of Ireland (whose sinking was the largest maritime loss in Canadian history), and RMS Empress of Britain, fated to be the largest U-boat victim in WW2
May-22 £25.00 9780750998758 PBK 224 x 245mm, 168 pages 130 b&w, 40 colour illustrations World Rights
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Sir Henry Royce
Establishing Rolls-Royce, from Motor Cars to Aero Engines Peter Reese
The life and genius of Henry Royce, the outstanding, retiring and sometimes tyrannical founder of Rolls-Royce • A tale of visionary genius, rare endeavour against the odds, and unquestionable British success on a global stage
Motorcycles We Loved in the 1970s Phil West
Everyone’s favourite motorcycles of the 1970s are here in this lavishly illustrated little book • A nostalgia and period picturerich look back at the motorcycles and manufacturers of ‘70s Britain, that shaped a generation of British bikers
• Royce’s achievements are the stuff of legends: he was the constructor of the world’s finest motor cars, the best aero engine of the First World War and the aero engines that won Britain the Schneider Trophy
• Revisit the fifty best bikes of the decade, with side stories on ‘70s bike sport, heroes and motoring and fun box-outs on buyers, bike fashion and more
May-22 £17.99 9780750999007 PBK 234 x 156mm, 256 pages 100 b&w illustrations World Rights
Jun-22 £12.99 9780750996129 PBK 168 x 190mm, 160 pages 160 colour illustrations World Rights
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• Jam-packed with over 160 vibrant images
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
The Touring Caravan Story
Over a Century of Towing Andrew Jenkinson
Over a century of the modern touring caravan • Photographic history tells the story of the modern touring caravan • Evocative imagery revels in the nostalgia of a truly British holiday experience
An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World Riley Black
A fascinating exploration of the world’s worst mass extinction – and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet • Offers a front-row seat to the fateful days the dinosaurs died – and what happened after
• Written by the UK’s foremost caravan/motorhome/holiday home expert
• Accessibly written while drawing on up-to-date research from palaeontologists, geologists, astronomers, physicists, ecologists and more
• Includes many memories from those who enjoyed holidays in static caravans over the years
• For readers of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte (15k HBK; 25k PBK)
Mar-22 £12.99 9780750994910 PBK 168 x 190mm, 160 pages 80 b&w, 96 colour illustrations World Rights
Apr-22 £20.00 9780750999526 HBK 234 x 156mm, 304 pages 15 b&w illustrations UK & Commonwealth Rights
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