It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It's June 1897 and Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond ..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving boy. Then one morning he had an irresistible urge to shake ..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Sir Alex Ferguson CBE born 31 December 1941 is a former Scottish football player and was manager of ..

For a young Mike Pannett growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream ..

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

Dave Aston had been a soldier a member of the elite British SAS. Until that final mission into bandi..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..