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Following the success of A Spur Called Courage and Sons of Odysseus, Alan Ogden continues his exploration of the Special Operations Executive and their wartime exploits. Leaving behind Europe, he brings to life the remarkable efforts to bolster Britain's defensive capability in South East Asia in the face of the Japanese threat after 1941.

A collection of entertaining and illuminating quotations on the subject of money, from the great and the good: Keynes to Marx, Camus to Dickens, Galbraith to Mr Burns.

An account of Bucknall's journey through the Greek islands to Istanbul, over 5, 500 miles.

HRH Duke of Edinburgh writes in his foreword: "This book tells a quite remarkable story...makes a very good read".

A love-letter to cricket through the story of an accidental club that has lasted 25 years and 263 matches longer than it ever meant to. It's for anyone who has silently sobbed at the sight of their off-stump cartwheeling off into the distance, or thrown their bat in disgust onto an autumn bonfire.

The extravagant life and times of Colin Tennant, aka Lord Glenconner. Born to an immensely rich Victorian industrial family, he used his wealth to live an eccentric lifestyle of self indulgence from the 1940s to his death in 2010, which included buying the private island of Mustique in the West Indies.

A memoir from the Spanish translator of Patrick Leigh Fermor's books, which describes how she visited his house in Greece for the first time in 2009, and formed a friendship which lasted until his death in 2011. Ties in with the 70th anniversary of Fermor's kidnapping of the German General Kreipe from Crete.

Over his long career as a cricket commentator and journalist, Dellor has met some of the greatest exponents of the game. In the 1990s he taped a series of interviews with famous cricketers past and present, and this book includes 9 of them, with: Denis Compton, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, Bob Wyatt, Trevor Bailey, Cyril Washbrook, Sir Alec Bedser, Bill Alley and Brian Statham. With photos throughout.

An account of Moss's final months of WWII, this is reprinted to tie in with the 70th anniversary of his and Patrick Leigh Fermor's kidnapping of German General Kreipe from Crete. The sequel to "Ill Met By Moonlight", which was made into a 1957 film with Dirk Bogarde.