Literature & literary studies
Prose: non-fiction
A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich
Format: Book, 432 pagesPublished by: W F Howes
ISBN: 9781846324345
In 1935, with a doctorate and no job, the twenty-five year old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt an history of the world for younger readers. Read More...
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
Format: Hardback, 464 pagesPublished by: W F Howes
ISBN: 9781407406961
One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. Read More...
Air Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Format: Book, 400 pagesPublished by: W F Howes
ISBN: 9781846323850
Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard about the amount of knickers and false teeth that are left behind in the plane? Heard how annoyed stewards put laxatives in your drinks? Heard about the pilot who ran out of runway? Heard of the disabled passengers who miraculously walk again? No? Then you haven't read Air Babylon - a world divided between those who wear a uniform and those who don't. Read More...
Animals in War by Jilly Cooper
Format: Book, 224 pagesPublished by: W F Howes
ISBN: 9781846325052
Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in the Second World War - countless brave animals have played their part in the long, cruel 41 of war. Read More...
Black Barty by Aubrey Burl
Format: Book, 448 pagesPublished by: W F Howes
ISBN: 9781846324338
Recovered from original sources, this is the fascinating true story of Bartholomew Roberts, one of the most successful and deadly pirates in all of history. Read More...