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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.

The problem with being related to everyone in town is that there is no one left to date...until now. But will this outsider survive his family?Former soldier Veronica "Ronnie" Morales isn't going to let her kid brother, Tiago, get pulled into the gangs of Minneapolis, so, seeking safety and a fresh start, she heads to sleepy Deep Haven on the north shore of Minnesota. She's hoping to put down roots as the paramedic for the new Crisis Response ...

He can't buy his way out of trouble this time...Housekeeper-slash-entrepreneur Ella Bradley prides herself on being ready for anything. After all, with a father who died-and lied to her-and a stepmom and stepsister who despise her, she has no one else to depend on. But on the biggest night of her life, she's unprepared to be trapped in an elevator with the man of her dreams.Wealthy prince-to-a-fortune Adrian Vassos wants nothing more than to s...

It's never too late to finish a love story...Cole Barrett, former Army Ranger, has a new mission objective. Sell his grandfather's house and put Deep Haven, a place that holds too many hurts, in his rearview mirror as fast as possible. Recently divorced, single, and unattached, Cole just wants a new life as a US Marshal. One where he can forget the past and start new.Unfortunately, there's a tenant in the garage apartment who's refusing to mov...

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.

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