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Mr Langshaw's Square Piano by Madeline Goold (March 2008) Madeline Goold travels back in time to enter the musical world of Georgian England and meets the people who built and played the square piano that she has lovingly restored 200 years later. This delightful biography of a musical instrument is for lovers of music and history alike. |
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31 Days: A New York Street Diary by Alan Emmins (October 2006) Alan Emmins sleeps on the streets of New York for 31 days. When writing a feature about murals painted under the pavements of Manhattan by homeless artists, Alan Emmins was challenged by a homeless dancer to try homelessness himself to understand what he was writing about. He took up the challenge. His diary about the people he met reveals an invisible world, full of surprises. |
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A Very English Hangman by Leonora Klein (October 2006) Albert Pierrepoint’s hanging record reads like a Who’s Who? of mid-twentieth century convicts: he was the man that hanged Ruth Ellis, Lord Haw Haw, Derek Bentley and the Belsen Nazi war criminals. For him, hanging was a ‘remote and skilled mystery, a sacred craft,’ but one that would be abolished in his lifetime. The story of his life is a fascinating insight into the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. |
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A Load of Blair by Jamie Whyte (March 2005) A Load of Blair carves a path through the morass of political debate, policy statements and promises. This humorous dissection of modern rhetoric, analysing speeches and public statements by rhetorical master Tony Blair and other politicians, is a must-have tool for understanding politics. |
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The Climbing Boy by Ralph Rochester (December 2004) Special edition limited to 200 copies, handbound by the Hanbury Press and including author's colour drawings. Ralph is the author of The Turkey and the Baby. To order contact Hanbury Press at 0207-377-1948. |
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| Mop Men - California's Crime Scene Cleaners by Alan Emmins (October 2004) Homicides, suicides, accidental deaths. Journalist Alan Emmins pulls on his rubber gloves and meets the people who have built the American dream on the Californian way of death. |
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Bad Thoughts - A Guide to Clear Thinking by Jamie Whyte (November 2003) A book for people who like argument. Witty, contentious, and passionate, it exposes the methods with which we avoid reasoned debate. Jamie Whyte dissects the 'Shut up - you sound like Hitler' and 'You can hardly talk' tactics, and explains why we don't have a right to our own opinion. His writing is both laugh-out-loud funny and a serious comment on the ways in which people with power and influence avoid truth in steering public opinion. |
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Separation by Hilda Bernstein (July 2003) Separation is a deeply moving portrait of a family divided, set against the turbulence of post-revolutionary Russia, Stalinism and the Second World War. When Hilda Bernstein was ten, her father returned to his native Russia to work for the Soviets. He was never permitted to return to London and she never saw him again. After his death, her sister followed his trail, falling in love on the way, and she too was trapped in Russia for twelve years. Told with skilful and haunting simplicity, Separation is a unique and fascinating glimpse into life within the great Soviet experiment, and a testament to the importance of collective memory. |
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Who Killed Mr. Drum by Sylvester Stein (April 2003) Part biography, part murder-mystery, with gems about Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo and other lions of the apartheid era, this book is about the author's time as editor of the legendary and irreverent township magazine, Drum, and the untimely deaths of the talented black journalists who wrote for it. Both funny and poignant, it is as much about the comedy of apartheid in the 1950s (the illegal liquor, the jazz clubs, the absurdities of the pass system) as the tragedy. Includes beautiful, evocative photographs by former Drum photographers, Jürgen Schadeberg and Bob Gosani. |
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The Turkey and the Baby by Ralph Rochester, illustrated by Tim Major (November 2002) A Christmas story for all the family, written by the award-winning author and poet Ralph Rochester and exuberantly illustrated by Tim Major. When Nanny and Cook overdo the gin on Christmas Day, the turkey and the baby become mixed up with near-disastrous results. Only the actions of kitchen boy Orphan Ben save the Hertford-Hare family from an indigestible Christmas roast. Set in Edwardian London, Ralph Rochester's verse demands to be read aloud. For those who enjoy their rhymes ruthless, but with a happy ending. |
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Updated 29th June 2008 |
