A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of the Beautiful Game, including a one-man team, freaky weather conditions, ludicrous scorelines and all manner of off-pitch shenanigans.
‘The most eccentric golf book ever’ Sports and Leisure Magazine
London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities.
Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.
Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.
Since 1894, when motor racing’s colourful history began with a bang (and a banger!), drivers, racers and lunatics alike have done many stupid and bizarre things all in the name of motor sport.
Kent’s Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England.
Cricket’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of cricketing weirdness – and there’s a lot of it to choose from!
A quirky collection of stories from London’s stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that’s completely the wrong way round.
A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger depths of the Thames’s history, including the world’s first submarine, Lord Nelson’s final journey and an infamous Sex Pistols concert.
A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of God’s Own Country, including vampires, tigers and aliens.
The Olympics’ Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the return of the games to their birthplace in Athens in 2004.
To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course.
In 1894, when the motley assortment of steam and petrol-powered vehicles lined up at the start of the trial from Paris to Rouen, motor-racing’s colourful history was launched.
