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Sir Paul McCartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he's become the most successful pop music compose...
The Biography
This is the definitive story of the complex man behind the icon of cool....
In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to sw...
Loving The Alien
Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guid...
The classic biography of the Rolling Stones - updated for their 60th anniversary...
The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing Th...
Born in Paris to Polish-Jewish parents, Polanski dealt with the terrors of his childhood - including internment in Auschwitz - by creating an elaborat...
In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a cruc...
The Greatest Raid of All
“A gripping new history of the British naval raid in April 1918 on the German-held Belgian port of that name” (Chronicles). The combined-forces in...
Satisfaction
When he first came before a judge in the 1960s, Keith Richards heard himself described as "a moron" and read newspaper headlines announcing UGLY LOOKS...
The definitive biography of Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain and all-rounder – the Oxbridge graduate and vociferous campaigner; the d...
The Man Who Conned the World
The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us,' The Times wrote in ...
Primitive Cool
Rock journalist Christopher Sandford offers as an alternative the first truly comprehensive biography of the premiere Rolling Stone. Primitive Cool is...
The Cricketers of Summer 1914
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket categ...
Point Blank
In 1975 a pop loving beach boy made his last-gasp shot at stardom - an album called BORN TO RUN! The rest, as they say, is history. At a time when oth...
Back on the Beat
Touted by fans for his charisma and scorned by critics for his egomania, Sting is one of the most commercially successful and most controversial rock ...
The Cricketer, the Celebrity, the Politician : the Biography
The definitive biography of Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain and all-rounder - the Oxbridge graduate and vociferous campaigner; the dev...
JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain
The fascinating story of John F. Kennedy's lifelong love affair with England--and how it shaped him...
Here is the most comprehensive biography available of the premier Rolling Stone....
The Cricketers of Summer 1939
The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English cricket. Over 200 fi...
The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy
Documents the unlikely friendship between the British Prime Minister and the thirty-fifth President, tracing their collaborative efforts during the Ba...
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Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time,...
Operation Long Jump, the Nazi Plot to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and assassinate the "Big Three" ...
Demolition Man
Sting (born Gordon Sumner) holds a place as the thinking man's rocker. His years of success with the Police preceded a hugely successful solo career a...
The Special Relationship
John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, m...
The Great Magician and the Inventor of Sherlock Holmes
In the early 20th century, in the English-speaking world, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were two of the most feted and famous men alive. And th...
The Year the Swinging Sixties Began
Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States t...
The life and times of Middlesex and England wicketkeeper-batsman John 'JT' Murray, one of the acknowledged greats of English post-war cricket. Irresis...
The Real Life Sherlock Holmes
'Meticulously researched.' - Stewart Lamont, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre 'Sandford's accomplished, well-crafted work brings Conan Doyle into sharp r...
A Biography
A biography of the Kent cricket star, Godfrey Evans, one of the greatest wicketkeeper/batsmen of all time. It traces his cricketing life from 1933 to ...
John F. Kennedy's Special Relationship with Great Britain
A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote : Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948