Product Description: Duncan Hamilton won the classic Le Mans 24-Hours race in 1953, co-driving his workcentered C-Type Jaguar with Tony Rolt. In 1954 the same pair finished second, losing to a much larger-engined V12 Ferrari and by the narrowest margin in years...read more

Product Description: Combining reportage, anecdote, biography, history and personal recollection, A Last English Summer is an honest and passionate reflection on cricket's past, present and future. In 2009 the county system looked directionless and obsolete; more than ever the players blessed with central contracts seemed apart from, rather than a part of, the domestic game; the home Ashes series was for the first time only available on pay-TV; and, of course, the juggernaut of Twenty20 threatened to flatten all but the Test form of the game, suggesting it may soon eclipse even that as well...read more

Product Description: In October 1898, on route to Paris' Gare du Nord station, the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland's jewels were stolen from her train carriage. More than 40 pieces, worth nearly GBP2m today, disappeared that night and the perpetrator along with them...read more

Product Description: Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe's most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles - a man who wore bespoke suits and handmade shoes; who used a dozen pseudonyms to dust over his tracks; who belonged to three smart London clubs and lived in the luxury of West End hotels; whose staple diet was champagne and whisky; who was pursued by London's top detectives for five and a half years and - by their own admission - 'proved smarter' than them; and who fell so much in love with an Gaiety girl, a women who he would steal for and lie for and who would eventually betray him...read more

Product Description: He's British football's philosopher manque. The most successful England manager we never had and a genuine footballing legend. To many, an outspoken working class hero. To others - mainly his targets - he was a bolshy northern gobshite...read more

Product Description: 'Am Bratach Sith' is gaelic for 'The Fairy Flag' my story is about the myths, legends and magic that has surrounded the Fairy flag and it's custodians the Clan MacLeod of Dunvegan for over a thousend years.First written four years ago as a Christmas present for my wife, the story is an adult fairy tale which takes you from the Islands and Highlands of Scotland to the Holyland and from the birth of Christianity to the present day, a story of love, revenge, hope and dreams, why not join me in the telling of one family's adventure...read more