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He was the lover of Maria Callas, and a pirate who made billions while ignoring the rules of the sea. She was the closest thing to a Queen America ever had. Their critics said that Jackie had gone from Prince Charming to Caliban. This new book examines the strands which drew this unlikely pair together, but quickly pulled them apart.

Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and VC10. In this beautifully written memoir he takes the reader from agricultural work in rural Scotland to a Lancaster over Berlin, and on to the challenges of airline flying in the post-war years.

Peter Duffey is the only pilot to have flown the Comet 1, Comet 4 and Concorde. He also flew a host of other aircraft from the Dragon Rapide to the Boeing 707. In this unique memoir he records not only the challenges of flying such varied and different machines, but also the remarkable people he met and events he witnessed in his long career.

How did it feel to be in the cockpit of a BOAC passenger jet? Philip Hogge's fact-based stories will take you there with all the colour, detail and human drama that you could wish for. Let one of Britain's most senior airline captains tell you what it was really like to fly for an iconic British airline in the final years of flying's Golden Age.

Until the 1950s, the flying boats of Pan American and Imperial Airways took passengers to the corners of the globe in luxury that rivalled the great ocean liners. Peter Pigott, Canada's foremost aviation author, has tracked the history of these extraordinary aircraft and their unrivalled levels of exclusivity and comfort.

Four years after the end of the Second World War, at a small airfield in Hertfordshire, a brief event marked the greatest advance in civil aviation since the Wright brothers. The prototype of de Havilland's Comet airliner took off, carried out some simple manoeuvres and safely returned. The world had shrunk and Jet Age had begun.

From the end of the Second World War the British airline industry produced a series of brilliant entrepreneurs, from Freddie Laker to Richard Branson, who continually innovated the industry.

The birth and history of what is often described as the most beautiful and graceful airliner of the piston-engine age.

A celebration of an iconic British airline which although short lived (1940 to 1974) came to symbolise luxury and exclusivity in the jet age which followed World War II - an era when people dressed to fly and thought that air travel was special, almost as important as the destination itself.