Bloomsbury

In this follow-up to By Royal Command, Lucy is asked to continue her work on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. But will her romance with Tomas, the queen’s fool, get in the way?There’s also Mistress Juliette, the mysterious new lady-in-waiting. Could she be a threat to the queen? Or is Lucy simply jealous of the attention that Tomas is paying...

Using the same question and answer format of his highly successful first book Do Whales Get the Bends?,marine expert Tony Rice sets out to answer another selection of generalinterest questions about the sea, sea life and man's relationship withthe oceans. Questions tackled in this book include: * Did the Mediterranean once dry up? * What are sea...

In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of WWI, the precursor of the U.S. Air Force had one plane and a couple of dirigibles. Nobody knew which form of flight would predominate: planes, dirigibles, or balloons. And for a period of 17 days that month, this question was on prime display. The dirigible America, captained by Walter...

He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him . . . but there's just one thing I've got to take care of first. I've got to do something to make this right.Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It's time to work out what's wrong. It's time to look...

When East End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son, Dave pens a gripping text-a compilation about everything from the environment, Arabs, and American tourists to sex, Prozac, and cabby lore-that captures all of his frustrations and anxieties about his contemporary world. Dave buries the book in his ex-wife's Hampstead backyard,...

This is the story of one of the most successful football clubs in history under one of the greatest football managers of our time. But it is also a book about what it has meant to be a Manchester United supporter during the remarkable 25-year reign of Sir Alex Ferguson. The book begins in the winter of 1986 - when Sir Alex found himself in charge...