Impeccably detailed & beautifully written, The Lost Olympian of the Somme is the story of an Olympic gold medallist & forgotten war hero. Frederick Kelly`s first-hand account offers a startling personal insight into the Great War & offers a unique look into the Royal Navy`s Hood Battalion. An innovative new division of sailors that served on land as soldiers, Kelly`s battalion included some of the leading artistic & intellectual minds of the day: The Hon. Charles Lister, Arthur ` Ock` Asquith (the Prime Minister`s son), & the poet Rupert Brooke, whose final hours Kelly witnessed. Olympic champion, composer, pianist, intellectual & leader of men
- this is Frederick Kelly`s incredible story.
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The welcome return of Oliver & Patch
- this time with Ruby & a lost baby penguin too! Everyone fell in love with these special
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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott are just that, an incredible look at the last expedition he would ever undertake. During the final months of that journey in March 1912, Scott took a series of breathtaking photographs: panoramas of the continent, superb depictions of mountains & formations of ice & snow, & photographs of the explorers on the polar trail. These photos have never been seen
- initially fought over, neglected, then lost
- until now, that is. For the first time, they are resurrected & are testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.

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The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane`s long-dead pilot. But who was he? & what had happened to him? Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far
- from London to Melbourne
- & in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot. By the time they landed in Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation
- &, despite still being married to other people, deeply in love. Keeping their affair a secret, they toured the world until the Wall Street Crash changed everything; Bill & Jessie
- like so many others
- were broke. & it was then, holed up in a run-down mansion on the outskirts of Miami & desperate for cash, that Jessie agreed to write a memoir. When a dashing ghostwriter Haden Clark was despatched from New York, the toxic combination of the handsome interloper, bootleg booze & jealousy led to a shocking crime. The trial that followed put Jessie & Bill back on the front pages & drove him to a reckless act of abandon to win it all back. The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research & startling new evidence, & full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal & tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation`s leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.




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A Classic work, essential in the study of London history. This is the third edition. The author locates the rivers once above ground in London, though now mostly or completely buried & only occasionally apparent. He surveys what we know of them & their courses, their uses & their effect on London's development. This is without doubt the best book on the subject & comes with a fold-out map showing the courses of the rivers. ...

Rebecca Wilding, an archaeology professor, traces the past for a living. But suddenly, truth & certainty are turning against her. Rebecca is accused of serious fraud, & worse, she suspects
- she knows
- that her husb&, Stephen, is having an affair. Desperate to find answers, Rebecca leaves with Stephen for Greece, Italy & Paris, where she can uncover the conspiracy against her, & hopefully win Stephen back to her side, where he belongs. There`s too much at stake
- her love, her work, her family. But on the idyllic Amalfi Coast, Stephen goes swimming & doesn`t come back. In a swirling daze of panic & fear, Rebecca is dealt with fresh allegations. & with time against her, she must uncover the dark secrets that stand between her & Stephen, & the deceit that has chased her halfway around the world.


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` Lost Tommies` brings together stunning never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies & their amazing stories in a beautiful ...

The German missionary Martin Gusinde arrived in Tierra del Fuego in 1919. Although his initial mission was to convert the Indians among whom he lived, Gusinde in fact ended up doing the very opposite: he was to become one of the first Westerners to be initiated into the Indians sacred rites. Over the course of five years, he studied the Alakaluf, Yamana & Selknam peoples, travelling from the canals of Western Patagonia to the great island of Tierra del Fuego. Gradually, the missionary became an anthropologist. Gusindes isolation on this land at the end of the earth made his approach highly unique. Fascinated by what he saw, he took over a thousand photographs, all produced using a portable darkroom. The portraits he captured constitute a kind of genealogical & social tree. Unlike his contemporaries, Gusinde photographed mainly the body in extraordinary manifestations: feather-clad figures sporting high head-dresses made from bark, wrapped up in guanaco furs, or entirely covered with ritual paint Captured in a landscape battered by wind & rain or covered in snow, in the heart of a natural world that Darwin celebrated for its wild & rough aspects, & framed in poses codified by ritual, these Indians bear witness to a society on the wane. Magic, spirits, communion with nature & initiatory rites draw the outlines of a world in which appearances vie with reality. The exceptional circumstances of the photos creation coupled with the personality & engagement of their author make these images a unique testimonial. ...

Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, & she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin & grandmother of monarchs. Some thought she should be queen of Engl&. She ranked high at the court of her uncle, Henry VIII, & was lady of honour to five of his wives. Beautiful & tempestuous, she created scandal, not just once, but twice, by falling in love with unsuitable men. Fortunately, the marriage arranged for her turned into a love match. Throughout her life her dynastic ties to two crowns proved hazardous. A born political intriguer, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London on three occasions, once under sentence of death. She helped to bring about one of the most notorious royal marriages of the sixteenth century, but it brought her only tragedy. Her son & her husband were brutally murdered, & there were rumours that she herself was poisoned. She warred with two queens, Mary of Scotland & Elizabeth of Engl&. A brave survivor, she was instrumental in securing the Stuart succession to the throne of England for her grandson. Her story deserves to be better known. This is the biography of an extraordinary life that spanned five Tudor reigns, a life packed with intrigue, drama & tragedy. ...

The idea of the village
- unspoilt, unpretentious, unchanging & growing almost organically out of the landscape
- is one of

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