This excellent biography - written with the full cooperation of its subject - is now reissued with more illustrations, to commemorate the centenary of Len Hutton's birth.
The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s was one of the crowning achievements of modern British history, or was it? This book advances the argument that however well-meaning its founders, the welfare state has in reality done more harm than good. The thesis of this book is that Britain would have been better off without the welfare state.
In defiance of the Catholic residents, the local Protestant Orange Order insisted on their traditional march down Garvaghy road on their annual church parade. This title presents an investigation of the history, politics and personalities behind the subsequent annual Drumcree stand-off.
Brian Close was the wonder boy of English cricket. Alan Hill has talked to Close himself, his friends and family, colleagues and critics in the creation of this account of this most controversial personality in English cricket's recent history.
An omnibus edition of Hegley's performance poems, "The Brother-in-Law and Other Animals", together with two of his most popular books, "Can I Come Down Now Dad?" and "These Were Your Father's".
David Owen analyses and describes the mental and physical condition of political leaders past and present. The prospects for both Trump and Johnson are assessed incisively by David Owen and the book is an essential read for all students of politics and psychology of world leaders.
The action unfolds during the 1780s on the doomed voyage of the slave ship Zong, and in the Lord Chief Justice's study at Kenwood House, London. How could slaves be put to death and insurance claimed on them? How could the Lord Chief Justice justify this? Who will hold the murderers and the great judge to account?
Nick Hunter, a senior officer in TIFAT, and his colleagues are brought in to protect an accountant who has stumbled upon evidence of EU corruption at the highest level and is targeted by assassins. TIFAT seek out the murderous thugs and eliminate them and to bring the corrupt EU officials to justice.
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television in October 1969
The Burning Tower is an interactive dramatization of social housing's history, inspired by interviews with local West London estate residents. Ivy is a green-fingered old woman who refuses to leave her squat, in a building that's about to be demolished, and whose plants seem to have hallucinogenic powers...
Published to mark the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings, Bomb Happy uses recorded interviews, written memoirs, official army and personal correspondence belonging to the last five York Normandy Veterans to capture these soon to be lost first-hand accounts of D-Day, the Normandy Campaign and the lifelong impact of conflict trauma.
William Wordsworth - A Conflict Of Love, the latest novel from Wendy Bardsley, sees the young poet, aged just twenty-one, travel to France in 1789 as the revolution begins to rage. Drawn there by his urge to explore, to learn and to write, he unexpectedly falls in love.
Thelwell made a study of this strange phenomenon of human behaviour and set it all down in his BOOK OF LEISURE.
Joseph Farrell's biography gives a complete account of the various activities and multifaceted lives of two extraordinary individuals Dario Fo and Franca Rame.
A cleverly constructed novel following the lives of five friends, spanning five different historical periods.
In her excellent new novel, Wendy Louise Bardsley takes the reader on a journey from Yorkshire to London, Wales, and Paris, as she explores the remarkable life of Mary Wollstonecroft.
In August 1941 Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of Newfoundland. H. V. Morton was invited to accompany the Prime Minister and his entourage and this is H. V. Morton's account of the trip, now re-published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the event.
This biography is a frank account of Charles Kennedy's political career that began in triumph and ended in tragedy.
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