It took 15 years of relentless persuasion to convince Tony Brooks one of Britain's greatest ever racing drivers that he should write his autobiography. Throughout his racing career he shunned publicity preferring to let his on-track performances speak for themselves. This is why Stirling Moss on many occasions his team-mate in Formula 1 & sports car races has described him as the greatest 'little known' driver of all time"." ...

Tony Greig is remembered as the captain who led cricket into its biggest crisis of the last century. An all-rounder who mixed boldness with belligerence he had become the first South African to skipper England restoring national pride with victory in India after poundings at the hands of Australia & the West Indies. A controversial & charismatic figure whose make them grovel comment about the West Indies typified his ability to talk himself into trouble he lost the captaincy when it transpired that he was recruiting players for Kerry Packers World Series Cricket. More than three decades later now a leading television commentator Greig has never been fully absolved. Tony Greig is more than just a biography of a fierce competitor who never backed down from a challenge; whether it was dealing with epilepsy facing up to Dennis Lillee or challenging the authorities. Featuring many new interviews including with Greig himself it examines why he remains largely unforgiven asks whether off-field activities have condemned his career to be forever under-appreciated & offers a compelling portrait of a fascinating cricketing era. ...

When Janie Ryan is born shes just the latest in a long line of Ryan women Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted shed be sly while blowing Benson & Hedges smoke rings over her Mas swollen belly. In the hospital her family approached her suspiciously so close she could smell whether theyd had booze or food for breakfast. It was mostly booze. Tony Hogan" tells the story of a Scottish childhood of filthy council flats & B& Bs screeching women feckless men fags & booze & drugs the dole queue & bread & marge sandwiches. It is also the story of an irresistible irrepressible heroine a dysfunctional family you cant help but adore the absurdities of the eighties & the fierce bonds that tie people together no matter what. Told in an arrestingly original
- & cry-out-loud funny
- voice it launches itself headlong into the middle of one of lifes great fights between the pull of the past & the freedom of the future. & Janie Ryan born & bred for combat is ready to win."

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This is the biography of motor racing mechanic Tony Robinson who worked with some of the great names of the sport in the 1950s & 60s. Tony started as one of the mechanics for Stirling Moss in 1954: the year of Stirlings first serious assault on the world championship. After a semi-nomadic period touring Europe with privateer Bruce Halford who also raced a Maserati 250F Tony joined the British Racing Partnership
- a Formula One & Two team part-owned by (Sir) Stirlings father Alfred. Stirling was driving a BRP-entered Lotus on the day of the accident that effectively ended his racing career. At BRP Tony responded to the Lotus 25 by building what was the first monocoque F1 car following Colin Chapmans groundbreaker. He also designed a car for Indianapolis before going on to work for Cooper. During his time in motor racing Tony rubbed shoulders with such great names as Juan Manual Fangio & Mike Hawthorn; Stuart Lewis-Evans
- whose manager was Bernie Ecclestone
- was one of Tonys drivers & McLarens Ron Dennis worked for him during his time at Cooper. This is the fascinating story of one of motorsports most enduring characters.


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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about World War II! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you need to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- just how useful mashed potato is
- how the Battle of Britain was won
- what it takes to be a spy
- how D-Day was kept a surprise



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the Greeks! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil
- Who Pythagoras was
- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse Bucephalus &
- How the Greeks invented the first computer vending machine & death-ray



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining & gory bits about the Romans! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- How to keep the gods happy
- Why you should never ignore an omen
- How to defeat an army who are riding elephants &
- How to spot a barbarian



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Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time pointing out all the most important funny strange amazing entertaining smelly & disgusting bits about the British! Its history but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant action-packed fact-filled book including:
- How to avoid scurvy
- Why bright red isnt the best colour for a soldiers uniform
- Why not being able to swim was considered an advantage &
- How to cure the most gruesome tropical diseases



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This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe flying in private jets & raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin the news-breaking New York Times" journalist delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men & women at the eye of the financial storm
- from reviled Lehman Brothers CEO Dick the gorilla Fuld to banking whiz Jamie Dimon from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIGs Joseph Cassano dubbed The Man Who Crashed the World. Through unprecedented access to the key players Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls foul-mouthed rows & white-knuckle panic as Wall Street fought to save itself."
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This collection is Benjamin Zephaniahs first new book of poems in five years. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like Chant of a Homesick Nigga" & " Kill Them Before Ramadan " he shows that hes a poet who wont stay silent who doesnt pull any punches writing out of a sense of urgency & a commitment to social justice. He opens this hard-hitting & blackly funny book of poems with an outspoken comment on where hes coming from setting his poetry against the political landscape of Britain." ...