Under the Radar

1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east...

Seven-Tenths

Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written b...

Empire of the Clouds

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievem...

Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars

Gerontius

Nearing the end of his career, Sir Edward Elgar impulsively decides to travel by ship to Brazil, ...

Empire of the Clouds

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievem...

Playing With Water

A classic of travel writing. For many years award-winning writer James Hamilton-Paterson spent a ...

Marked for Death

Rancid Pansies

Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad coo...

What We Have Lost

Blackbird

What We Have Lost

Between 1939 and 1945, Britain produced around 125,000 aircraft, and enormous numbers of ships, m...