Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences
10 best books like Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences (Dennis Skinner): The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop, The Chicken Dance, The Railways: Nation, Network and People, The Big Red Train Ride, A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, Peace Work, A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line, Why Are We the Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Propaganda, The Benn Diaries, 1940-1990, Barefoot Soldier
| Author | Bill Jones |
| ISBN | 1845966066 |
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.
A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid...
| Author | Jacques Couvillon |
| ISBN | 1599900432 |
On his birthday, Don Schmidt spends the day waiting patiently for his big surprise--a cake, presents, maybe a Chinese clown . . . . But instead, his batty parents get into their monthly argument. This time it's because his mother has to feed the chickens. It ends with her shouting the same thing as always...
Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 1888173890 |
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0618002014 |
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just...
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0140149708 |
Spike Milligan's string of World War II memoirs gets high accolades, and they deserve their praise. However, something often overlooked is that Spike recorded the audio book versions of each of the books himself! They are treasures! He is a gifted reader, creating voice characterizations for all...
| Author | John O'Farrell |
| ISBN | 1846146348 |
'Sometimes you hear people say "Oh I had a nightmare journey on the tube" and you understand that their commute home on the London Underground was more unpleasant than usual. We don't take the word 'nightmare' to mean that in the middle of a packed carriage they literally realised that they were wearing...
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West...
| Author | Tony Benn |
| ISBN | 0099634112 |
The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout...
| Author | Johnson Beharry |
| ISBN | 0751538795 |
Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In 1999 he scraped together the airfare for England and joined...
| Author | Paul Kingsnorth |
| ISBN | 1846270413 |
Part personal journey, part manifesto, Real England offers a snapshot of a country at a precarious moment in its history, while there is still time to save its future. British citizens see the signs every day: the chain cafés and mobile phone outlets that dominate high streets; the disappearance...
| Author | Brian Moore |
| ISBN | 1847375545 |
Brian Moore, or "Pitbull" as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team's pack, established himself as one of the game's original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement, he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising...
Cloughie: Walking on Water. Brian Clough with John Sadler
| Author | Brian Howard Clough |
| ISBN | 0755314301 |
Brian Clough, arguably Britains greatest ever football manager, died in September 2004 at the age of 69. His passing was marked by a minutes silence at both the Derby County and Nottingham Forest grounds and provoked a wave of tributes from across the sporting spectrum. A memorial service due to be held...
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history...
| Author | Ben Chu |
| ISBN | 0297868454 |
We think we know China. The world's most venerable and self-confident civilisation, home to the largest unified race of people on the planet, China manufactures the objects that fill our lives. We see a country peopled by docile and determined factory workers, domineering 'Tiger Mothers' obsessed...
| Author | Christopher Somerville |
| ISBN | 0857523635 |
“In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again – a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. It was walking that first caused rifts between us in my sulky teenage years,...
| Author | Edward Marston |
| ISBN | 0749012447 |
The driver and fireman of a goods train are speeding along near the Scottish border. As they take a sharp bend, they can see that the track ahead has been ripped up. With no time to break, there s no way to avert disaster. Before they know what s happening, the engine has veered off the rails and plunged into...
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart
| Author | Diccon Bewes |
| ISBN | 1857886097 |
It was the tour that changed the way we travel. In the summer of 1863 seven people left London on a train that would take them on a thrilling adventure across the Alps. They were the Junior United Alpine Club and members of Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. For them it was an exciting novelty;...
| Author | Chris Mullin |
| ISBN | 1846682231 |
Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several prominent posts. To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only...
| Author | Dave Simpson |
| ISBN | 1847670490 |
The Fall are one of the world's most iconic groups, led for the last thirty years by the inimitable and enigmatic Mark E. Smith. They have released nearly thirty studio albums, with in excess of fifty musicians passing through their ranks. They are The Fallen; this is their story. Dave Simpson has spent...
