343 títulos para "Thistle Publishing"

The Tax Exile

Bellamy, Guy

From a position of acute poverty - no job and the rent owed - Fred Carton is suddenly plunged into a situation where a year's stay in Monte Carlo will save him a Capital Gains tax bill of £600,000. But he has managed to find the money for only one previous trip abroad, he doesn't speak French and t...

In the Midday Sun

Bellamy, Guy

In the bath one morning Daniel Ward works out how to take £1 million from the local banks without the use of violence. He has always been addicted to puzzles. But, with the money in his hold-all, he thinks it best to leave the country before anybody discovers how he did it. BY that evening he is loo...

War Beneath the Sea

Padfield, Peter

This is the first book to cover all submarine and anti-submarine operations of the major powers, U.S., British, German, Japanese and Italian in the Second World War. The canvas is broad and deep, from the strategic perspective at the top to the cramped and claustrophobic life of the crews in their s...

The Secret Lemonade Drinker

Bellamy, Guy

It is Christmas time in a small, modern, utterly featureless town somewhere in the Home Counties, where Bobby Booth lives. The main preoccupations of its inhabitants are drink - at the pub generally known as the Planet of the Apes because it is frequented by so many long-haired young men - and gossi...

Maxwell's Movie

Trow, M J

Ask any teacher what they dread most and they will say, to a man - or woman: 'school trips'. Unusually, Peter Maxwell is looking forward to this one, and with good reason - it is to his spiritual home, the Museum of the Moving Image. Sadly, the flu virus is no respecter of persons and so he must sta...

Maxwell's War

Trow, M J

Peter Maxwell is delighted when an old college friend asks him to be the historical adviser on a film being made on the coast near Leighford. Dreams of becoming the next Spielberg soon founder when he discovers that the world of film is pretty much the same as the world of education - full of incomp...

Lestrade and the Guardian Angel

Trow, M J

Knee deep in murder, in his forty-third year. Sholto Lestrade wouldn't have it any other way. The first victim in a series of bizarre killings is a Captain of the Life Guards, who is found in the Thames at Shadwell Stair, with a war medal wedged between his teeth. Lestrade's next summons is to th...

Brigade

Trow, M J

There is a new broom at Scotland Yard: Assistant Commissioner Nimrod Frost. His first 'little job' for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a savager of sheep and frightener of men; hardly a task for an Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department. Having...

Maxwell's House

Trow, M J

Peter Maxwell is on holiday when the dreadful thing happens - one of his Sixth Form, one of Maxwell's Own, is found dead in a derelict house in Leighford. The kids don't call him 'Mad Max' for nothing - he doesn't just get mad, he gets even, and he needs justice for Jenny. The police of course hav...

Gin

Dillon, Patrick

During the early eighteenth century, gin-drinking reached epidemic proportions in the slums of London. The spirit was sold from shops and market stalls, from basements and barrows in the streets, until every Londoner was averaging two pints of gin a week. Early eighteenth-century London was a viol...

Queen Victoria's Youngest Son

Zeepvat, Charlotte

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was the most intelligent of Queen Victoria's four sons. He was the youngest, a strong-willed, likeable character with an immense thirst for life who faced two overwhelming handicaps. One was haemophilia, then barely understood, which might have killed him at any momen...

Maxwell's Flame

Trow, M J

Peter Maxwell may be a dinosaur to his colleagues and a crazy enigma to his students - although most of them think an enigma is one of those mad Australian hedgehogs that lay eggs. But even he was young once and he is thrilled and slightly disturbed to meet his first serious love from his Cambridge...