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  • All the Money in the World

    previously published as Painfully Rich

    by John Pearson ...
    Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar****® Nominee Christopher PlummerOil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Profession of Violence

    The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

    by John Pearson ...
    The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cult of Violence

    by John Pearson ...
    John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years.Now Pearson revisits the twins' criminal past ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Facades

    Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell

    by John Pearson ...
    First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in Cyril Connolly's words, 'had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.' Picking ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Life of Ian Fleming

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent who would become the single most profitable movie character in the history of cinema. But James Bond was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

    by John Pearson ...
    The first major biography of Winston Churchill to focus on his inner life and psychology'An extraordinary biography...Pearson...has a sensitive pen, matching the wit of his subject, and shows perceptive intuition towards the delicate relationships between the members of the Churchill family and their assorted spouses and lovers.' International Journal on World PeaceHe was a lion of a man who ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Getting Lucky

    by John Pearson ...
    Fourth of July is this coming weekend and Lawrence (Shaver) Ketch would like to be done with first crop hay. Not only is there a family picnic, but also the Five on the Fourth Road Race that he uses to measure progress year to year. The picnic goes as planned, but he’s a scratch at the race. Someone else bales him out on the hay. Why? Who is the stranger on his porch when he and his wife, Connie, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnam Studies - The War In The Northern Provinces 1966-1968 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lieutenant General Willard Pearson, Captain John Albright ...
    [Includes 6 charts, 2 diagrams, 15 maps, and 17 illustrations]This book forms part of the "Vietnam Studies" series produced by various senior commanders who had served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War; each officer was chosen for their knowledge of the number of specialized subjects that were covered by the series.This volume of the Vietnam Studies series sees Lt-General Willard Pearson ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biggles

    The Authorized Biography

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes the fictional biography of the mystical and fearless ace, James Biggles Worth.For over fifty years, James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C. has flown the skies in everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world.Yet until ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ornithologist's Archive: 35 Classic Books in Bird Studies

    Birds of Britain, Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific, Extinct Birds, Birds in London, British Sea Birds, etc.

    by Frank M. Chapman, Thomas Bingley, Edmund Selous, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, J. Lewis Bonhote, Charles K. Reed, Harrison Bruce Tordoff, Chester A. Reed, Lionel Walter Rothschild Baron Rothschild, W. H. Hudson, Erwin E. Klaas, Charles Dixon, Emil K. Urban, Frederick Charles Lincoln, Steven R. Peterson, Peter A. Anastasi, P. M. C. Kermode, J. A. Harvie-Brown, John Cordeaux, M. Dale Arvey, Edward Harrison Taylor, Henry Higgins Lane, E. Raymond Hall, Henry S. Fitch, Jr. George H. Lowery, Alexander Goodman More, Richard Manliffe Barrington, James W. Bee, John Albert Leach, T. Gilbert Pearson, Leander S. Keyser, Robert L. Merz, Robert Morrow Mengel, Jon C. Barlow, Douglas Dewar, Jack Miner, Austin Loomer Rand, Rollin H. Baker ...
    The Ornithologist's Archive: 35 Classic Books in Bird Studies is a truly remarkable collection that encapsulates a wide array of themes and styles, each reflecting the profound intricacies of avian studies. This anthology serves as a vital bridge linking historical and contemporary explorations in ornithology, covering diverse topics from ecological interactions to the phenomenological aspects of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gone to Timbuctoo

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World comes his thrilling debut novel.Not a tooth is knocked out, not a kidney bashed in… an outstanding thriller that rests on less obvious grounds. The characters are odd but rarely violent. Their aims are bizarre and their methods usually unorthodox. Their story is one of strange and constantly maintained suspense, based on a journey from Dakar to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Blood Royal

    The Story of the Spencers and the Royals

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture, comes a history of Lady Diana's family, the Spencers, a dynasty that rose from sheep farmers to the ranks of upper aristocracy and, finally, royalty.When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in 1981, very little attention was given to her feudal family. The once powerful Spencer dynasty was in disarray and seemed ... Read more

    $6.99 USD