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When five-year-old Bob Williams flew to Berlin with his family in a noisy, freezing Avro Tudor, his mother was in tears, but he thought it was the most exciting event of his young life. Having been bitten by the aviation bug, he found there was no cure and made up his mind he would always work with aircraft. Starting as an apprentice engineer with British Eagle, he experienced the first of several redundancies when they folded in 1968. Dan-Air...

The Unravelling provides an insightful fictional exploration of two of the most pressing issues of our time ‿ dementia and mental illness ‿ told with compassion and humour.  Â

The extraordinary histories of two immensely different, but equally powerful characters. The eccentric and reclusive Howard Hughes, and the urbane, calculating Juan Trippe. Their rivalry created the modern airline business.Â

When the young Dave Welch saw his first real Spitfire‿part of a wartime ‿Wings for Victory‿ appeal‿it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with aircraft and aviation. As a youngster, he rode his bike to airfields, and Battle of Britain airshows, where he began photographing and recording the many aircraft types he saw.  He later joined the RAF, and served in photoreconnaissance units in Britain, Cyprus, and Kenya. It was there that he d...

The rich heritage of the first century of air transportation must be celebrated and not forgotten. This book looks back at 100 years of passenger air transport, through the lens of the varied and fascinating memorabilia produced by airlines and aircraft manufacturers, to highlight the exciting, adventurous, and romantic nature of air travel.

Angel‿s Dream was inspired by real events in the life of film star Diana Dors. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she organised adult ‿swingers‿ parties at her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire. Celebrities were introduced to young starlets along with generous supplies of alcohol, drugs and pornography.Â

Uffa Fox was the most celebrated and successful yacht designer in the world. Much more than a sailor and boat designer, he was an irrepressible extrovert and novel thinker, as well as a singer, musician, journalist, author, painter, sportsman, campaigner, controversial businessman and friend of royalty. In the years since his death his reputation has grown rather than diminished.

When Sean became James tells the story of the making of Dr No and of the unique and very different groups of men who came together to accidentally create one of the most influential films of all time.

When Sean became James tells the story of the making of Dr No and of the unique and very different groups of men who came together to accidentally create one of the most influential films of all time.

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British Eagle, Britain's second biggest independent airline, was bankrupted by the policies of all the governments, Conservative and Labour, who ruled Britain between 1948 and 1968. Each administration, to a greater or lesser degree, hamstrung Eagle and other independent airlines with policies that favoured the bloated, inefficient, state-owned carriers. This situation would not change until the European Union introduced "Open Skies" policies ...

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The Language Detective is Dr John Olsson's autobiography, ranging from his childhood in South Africa during the apartheid years to his passions for languages and flying, through to his work in the courts and his legal qualifications as both a barrister and solicitor, as well as a PhD in Forensic Linguistics - he is the only person to hold all three.

The rich heritage of the first century of air transportation must be celebrated and not forgotten. This book looks back at 100 years of passenger air transport, through the lens of the varied and fascinating memorabilia produced by airlines and aircraft manufacturers, to highlight the exciting, adventurous, and romantic nature of air travel.

Emily De Quincey explores the bizarre and unexpected tales to be uncovered in British graveyards. From the last man to die in a duel, to star-crossed lovers, family feuds, tragic romances and a dancer's final curtain she takes us behind (or rather, beneath) the strangest tombstones you will ever see.

Eastwards across the Atlantic, the five-hour time change had compressed the night into a mere three hours of darkness. Over south Wales we commenced our descent into Heathrow on one of those rare, perfect, summer mornings. A slight haze presaged a warm day, confirming the forecast given to us at Kennedy.

For all our nostalgia about the "Golden Age of Air Travel", it was more mythical than we like to think. As with other forms of transport then, until the 1970s, commercial and military aviation were strictly gendered and racist divisions of labour, both in the cockpit and cabin. This book outlines the impacts and effects this had.

When faded film star Angel May died she left a fortune to her son in a secret will, entrusting the code to her husband, Haydon York. When York dies a few months later, having never revealed the code, it appears to be suicide, but Detective Chief Inspector Marc Lancaster soon discovers a much more complex reality ...

Since the dawn of the automobile actors, musicians, artists and athletes have loved their cars. In this beautifully written, lavishly illustrated tribute, Daryl West shows us some of the remarkable machines that have been treasured by the stars of stage and screen over the decades.