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Always a dog lover, Liz Cowley has now turned her charming and insightful poetic skills to manâEUR(TM)s best friend with Muttering Doggerel, a book seemingly written by dogs themselves!

In 1925 a fire ripped through the Marylebone premises of Madame TussaudâEUR(TM)s waxworks. Little was left beyond a few grotesquely distorted models. It had also been a museum of 'priceless' curiosities. With unique access to archives, the authors expose some major discrepancies relating to Madame Tussaud herself and the authenticity of her collection.

My Sea Lady is Graeme Ogden's moving, and often amusing, memoir of his command of HMS Lady Madeleine during WW2 Arctic and Atlantic convoys... fraught with storms, icebergs, and sub-zero temperatures as well as the fearsome gauntlet of German aircraft, submarines, and surface raiders.

Few businessmen can have had as interesting career as Martin Broughton. From a modest start his acute accountant's brain has taken him to the very top, and even a bid for Chelsea FC. Martin has a passion for horse racing, and this memoir told with all the pace of one of his winners galloping up the home straight at Cheltenham.

During a football match no one pays the referee or the referee's assistants any attention - until they make a mistake. Then all hell breaks loose. Gavin Muge threads an entertaining personal football memoir together with his own attempts to scale the peak of the professional game as a match official.

Living a respectable life in Cheltenham, former terrorist Tariq Al Hashmi thinks his previous life is behind him. Wrong. His former masters have long memories and other ideas. Alex Gardiner's remarkable debut novel is full of intrigue and clever twists that will keep the reader guessing.

When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia as he explores the splintered co-evolution of these lands over the last ten centuries, guided by the inimitable Rebecca West's masterpiece, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

To give political legitimacy to his Empire, Emperor Napoleon I created an enduring image of Napoleonic France as the contemporary equivalent of Imperial Rome. The tangible remains of this grand, imperial 'theatre' has excited collectors ever since.

Saigon, 1963. With the tensions of war starting to swirl, rookie photographer Ned Rivers lands in South Vietnam, hungry for the iconic shot that will make his name. He finds it sooner than expected, and the consequences are as unexpected as they are nerve-racking.

On 31st January 2010, Trooper Corie Mapp of The Life Guards was driving his armoured vehicle on combat operations in Afghanistan when it ran over an IED. The explosion that followed caused him massive injuries. But this was not the end of his active life but rather the beginning.

The bizarre and brutal murder of a military hero - retired RSM Tom Wright - sets in motion a complex investigation headed by the troubled Inspector Logan. The Armistice Killer's parade of clues, red herrings, lies and deceits will keep the reader guessing to the last page.

For an unintentional politician, David Freud has had more impact on the United Kingdom than most. This is the riveting dialogue-driven inside story of his battles - with Westminster and Whitehall alike - to modernize our welfare system. Amongst his reforms was the highly controversial introduction of Universal Credit.

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This reprint of Thomas Seccombe's highly successful 1880 book will resonate with all who have an interest in observing life - military and otherwise. The amusingly illustrated perils of being a Victorian soldier and the appropriately selected Shakespearian quotes will delight and amuse the modern reader.

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Ted Fort's is a life of full of coincidences and lucky pivotal moments, but this memoir is far more than a rags-to-riches" story. Ted writes with refreshing honesty about the ups and downs of establishing a very successful international engineering business, as well as his the peaks and troughs of his personal life.