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Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Fiction
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines ...Show more
Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Fiction
Gerald Samper is a ghost-writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental gro ...Show more
Beethoven's Eroica : The First Great Romantic Symphony by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Music
An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony and revealed a power ...Show more
Blackbird by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Military
It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. Once fully developed in 1964, the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powered flight. It could fly at wel ...Show more
Blackbird by Hamilton-Paterson, James
Category: History
The compelling story of the spy plane SR-71 'Blackbird' - the fastest manned aircraft in the world. The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s ...Show more
Cooking With Fernet Branca by Hamilton Paterson James
Category: Fiction
A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels (Publishers Weekly). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions–including ice cream ...Show more
DK Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars The Golden Age by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Sports and Hobbies
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds. This dazzling book describes the flourishing of transport and travel, and the engineering that made it possible, in the years before the ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Transport
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fig ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: Technology and Transport
Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
Category: History
In 1945, Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, and intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a f ...Show more