Arsenal Football Club has had some great goal scorers down the years, but it takes someone special to register a century at the highest level. This volume catalogues every goal from the 19 centurions who have graced both Highbury and the Emirates Stadium to claim their well earned places in Arsenal's 100 Club.
The stunning sixth novel in Nick Brown's acclaimed Agent of Rome series, featuring Cassius' most astonishing race against time yet.
Having betrayed King Darius, Miltiades, a duplicitous Athenian renegade on the run from the Persian Empire, is forced to make for the churning instability of new democratic Athens. He has to convince the hostile, frightened Athenians that if they don't fight the Persians then, like him, they are doomed. Athens seethes with enemies who want him dead and the only person he can trust is his Luck Bringer the ungovernable teenaged Mandrocles. Against a background of treachery and violence Miltiades fights his battles in the courts and councils while Mandrocles fights his in the streets, theatre, bars and brothels. As the Persian threat grows and the danger within threatens Miltiades chooses to fight at Marathon where the ragged citizen army, including some of the greatest figures in the ancient world faces the overwhelming might of the Persian Immortals in 24 hours that changed history.
Former Glories and New Beginnings is a story told in two parts. It skilfully recreates not just one magical European trophy-winning night in May 1983, but the club's golden era of the late 1970s to mid-80s. It also explores the current era under Dave Cormack's stewardship, which promises to see the Dons back at the top.
Seventy-four years is a long wait, but with the 2021/22 season that wait finally ended. Follow Brentford's progress in this diary of the highs and lows of the biggest season in the history of the club. Only one thing is certain - whatever the season would bring for the Bees, everyone connected with the club would be buzzing!
There are road trips and then there are road trips. Nearly 2,500 miles east to west across one of the biggest countries in the world along one of the most famous roads in the world firmly puts Route 66 in the 'you really need to do this' category. From London To LA is much more than just a travelogue. Not just a commentary of the journey itself, it also explores the history of places visited along the way as two blokes from London discover the big cities, the small towns, the real wild west and some really quite bizarre curios that couldn't belong anywhere else other than along Route 66. Full of information, observations and British humour, From London To LA is a must-read for anyone who is interested in travel, history, geography, Americana and, of course, the Mother Road herself. Or if you just want a jolly good read...
A book filled with underwater adventures, Wild Dives takes the reader to remote locations to experience some of the best, and sometimes weirdest, underwater spectacles and adventures from around the world. What is a Wild Dive? One that gets you up close to amazing wild marine life, that makes your heart pump a little faster, and takes you to a remote and wild destination. The book covers 25 of the most memorable diving adventures from around the world, including amazing sharks in The Bahamas, exploring smaller critters in caves and on wrecks and reefs, swimming with Giant Manta Rays in the Pacific and even going eyeball to eyeball with whales. Each experience is accompanied by the authors’ beautiful underwater images.
Join ace divers and photographers Nick and Caroline Robertson- Brown as they tour the world in search of the deadliest sea creatures.