Books from Metro Publishing
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The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information
By Bruce Montague11 August: After being implicated in the Babington Plot, Mary, Queen of Scots was arrested while out riding and taken to the village of Tixall. Spain immediately responded by declaring war on England and assembling an armada to invade ...
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They Walk Among Us: An Investigation into the Phenomenon of After-Death Materialisation
By Emma Heathcote JamesThis is what Pearson sought to conquer. Quantum theory is essentially about the movement of things on the extremely small atomic scale. Things at this size seem to move in random and indeterminate ways. Relativity on the other hand is ...
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WG Grace: An Intimate Biography
By Robert LowHowever, he fielded so well at long-stop in difficult conditions that after the match Clarke presented him with a bat and his mother with a book Cricket: Notes by W. Bollard, with a letter containing practical hints by William Clarke, ...
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Gurkha Warriors - The Inside Story of The World's Toughest Regiment
By Robert Crewlong association with Church Crookham comes to an end' before he joined officers, men and their families at a private barbecue. Alan Harris, the acting head teacher of the local junior school in Fleet – where a Nepalese garden has been ...
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26.2 - The Incredible True Story of the Three Men Who Shaped The London Marathon
By John Bryant... F. 65 Lawson, H. 66 Goldsboro, W. 67 Goulding, G. 68 Wood, W. 69 Cotter, E. 70 Noseworthy, F. 71 Caffery, J. 72 Longboat, T. 73 Lister, G. 74 Burn, A. 75 Tait, J. APPENDIX II Official Result of the 1908 Olympic Marathon Dorando,
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The Paras - The Inside Story of Britain's Toughest Regiment
By John ParkerAlso present at the Soviet demonstration in 1935 was Hermann Goering, who had just been appointed head of the Luftwaffe. He returned to Germany determined to press ahead with the formation of his own airborne regiment, ...
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Curry Magic - How to Create Modern Indian Restaurant Dishes at Home
By Pat ChapmanCHILLI, PEPPER AND HEAT Chilli peppers, of which there are over 1,500 species, are native to Mexico and the tropical forests of Central and Southern America. They were not discovered until the fifteenth century when Spanish and ...
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Inside the Muslim Brotherhood - The Truth About The World's Most Powerful Political Movement
By Douglas Thompson, Youssef NadaThis is the authorised biography of Youssef Nada, a man who knows most of the untold story of more than half a century of rage and revolution.
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Ian Rankin & Inspector Rebus: The Official Story of the Bestselling Author and his Ruthless Detective
By Craig CabellThat he has taken Rankin away from more important work, like Sherlock Holmes did to Conan Doyle? Maybe I am, as far as Rebus has stopped Rankin from making more diverse fiction or, at least, having the opportunity of writing more ...
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Nirvana - A Tour Diary: My Life on the Road with One of the Greatest Bands of All Time
By Andy BollenA second after this picture was taken, Kurt began to set a Scottish note on fire! Kurt and Gordon unaware of a huge bucket of water. Kurt, me and Gordon Keen. Kilburn National, London, December 1991. James Seenan, Gordon Keen, ...
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Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story: A Junior Doctor's Story
By Rachel ClarkeThis is a "from-the-heart" front-line account of the human cost of the wanton erosion of a magnificent ideal - healthcare free at the point of need, funded through public taxation, available to all - made real in the UK for near 70 years.
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I Bought It, So I'll Drink It - The Joys (Or Not) Of Drinking Wine: The Joys (Or Not) Of...
By Charles Jennings & Paul KeersDo the aristocracy need twice as many recommendations for game suppers as they do for beef or lamb? To meet that level of consumption, they'd have to be taking to the moors with submachine guns. Or take Majestic, a merchant surely more ...
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Sinners and Saints - The Irreverent Diaries of Britain's Most Controversial Saint
By Father Michael SeedThe Banquet was the main event in Greater London and four of us had arranged events across the capital including a dinner at the Whitehall Banqueting House: the Reverend Adele Blakeborough; the Reverend Andrew Mawson (now Lord Mawson); ...
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Great Gambling Scams: True Stories of The World's Most Amazing Hustles
By Howard Monte/Nigel MontgomeryThe idea is to keep all the tables in action during slack periods, so that when real punters walk in there are always games in progress, and not empty tables with bored croupiers standing behind them. After several dry runs and ...
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Cricket, Wonderful Cricket
By John DuncanSo he got me to join and, as a kind of thank you, he invited me to do “View from the Boundary” on Test Match Special at Edgbaston. England were beating Australia by an innings when, in the BBC box, Johnners said, “Can you do an ...
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Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps
By Bruce MontagueThe are they lyrics supposed of Richard to bring M. SWEEPS and luck Robert to a wedding? B. Sherman in the song 'Chim Chim Cher-ee' from their marvellous musical movie, Mary Poppins, perpetuated the custom, with its references to a ...
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Queer Saint - The Cultured Life of Peter Watson
By Adrian Clark & Jeremy DronfieldJoyce, Patrick, The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State Since 1800 (Cambridge University Press, ... Neild, R. R. & Robert Neild, The Financial History of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge: Granta Editions, 2009).
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Death Before Dishonour - True Stories of The Special Forces Heroes Who Fight Global Terror
By Nicholas DaviesMajor reference points, such as a village, a railway line, a church, woods and hills, are first marked on the map and then ... when on the run in enemy territory, when enemy forces are in hot pursuit, and when in a hostile environment.
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Wild Animals I Have Known
By Ernest Thompson SetonThis edition faithfully reproduces the layout of the original volume, as well as all 200 of the author's distinctive illustrations.
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Red Herrings & White Elephants - The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day
By Albert JackHave you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean?