343 títulos para "Thistle Publishing"

George Fox and the Children of the Light

Fryer, Jonathan

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND WAS TORN BY POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONFLICT But against this background cacophony a firm, pure voice spoke out, denouncing the ostentations of the rich, and the stranglehold of the Church on people's lives, declaring that every person could communicate directly with God....

The Mad Bad Line

Roberts, Brian

‘You had yourself often told me,’ Oscar Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas, ‘how many of your race there had been who had stained their hands in their own blood; your uncle certainly, your grandfather possibly; many others in the mad, bad line from which you come.’ Wilde&rsqu...

Mapreaders & Multitaskers

Evans, Gavin

In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that male and female minds do not emerge from different planets, and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology.    A great many of the supposedly innate gender differences between men and wom...

Randolph

Roberts, Brian

‘Born to succeed; doomed to failure’. For all its cruel accuracy, this quip about Randolph Churchill is not quite fair.  He was certainly born to succeed. A member of a great patrician family, good-looking, intelligent, energetic, with great oratorical gifts and quickness of mind,...

The Serpent's Tail

Dillon, Martin

A gripping thriller based on a true sequence of events in which two young Belfast Catholics are recruited as informers and find themselves at the heart of a ‘sting’ involving the IRA, the SAS and MI5. The Serpent’s Tail is the first work of fiction by the man Conor Cruise O’B...

Hollywood Hang Ten

Goldberg, Eve

Los Angeles, 1963.  John F. Kennedy is President, and Jan & Dean’s “Surf City” is at the top of the charts. Ryan Zorn, a 23-year-old Venice Beach surfer working in his uncle’s detective agency, lands his first solo case when a divorced mother with plenty to hide...

Rosebery

McKinstry, Leo

With a story full of colour, contradictions and controversy, the Fifth Early of Rosebery is the ideal subject for a biography. Gifted with dazzling charisma, oratorical power, intellectual brilliance and fabulous wealth, he was the last Liberal peer to become Prime Minister, succeeding William Glads...

Dambuster

Ottaway, Susan

FEW MEN HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO BE CALLED A LEGEND IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME THAN GUY GIBSON.Leader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May 1943, which became part of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film in which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, Gibson himself was tragically in...

Secret Agent

Stafford, David

In June 1940 Britain and her allies were driven off the continent by the German Army and with it lost any chance of fighting the Germans in Europe. With democracy on its knees and invasion imminent Britain needed a new style of warfare, and a new organisation to wage it... And so the Special Operati...

Beau Blackstone

Falkirk, Richard

Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, poured ale over his clothes, and rubbed his fingernails against the stone wall until they were cracked and jagged. Then he dishevelled his hair, rubbing a little grease into it. The whole process offended him but he persevered, massaging soil into his hands unti...

Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe

Falkirk, Richard

Another case for the Bow Street Runner extraordinary. Napoleon Bonaparte, once the scourge of Europe, is now a tame captive on the island rock of St Helena. Or is he? When rumours grow of a plan to escape, Blackstone is sent by George IV to investigate security on the island. He finds a buzz of susp...

World of Britannia

Denham, Richard / Trow, M J

World of Britannia forms the historical background to the Britannia trilogy. The arrival of Rome’s legions, first under Julius Caesar, then Aulius Plautius in the first century is well documented, but the end of Roman rule in Britain remains forever in shadow, ‘illuminated’ only by...