Author: Tom Quinn

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slep...

Travel from the rugged beaches of Cornwall to the ancient burial sites of the Orkney Islands, and in between encounter an enticing mix of wild hill...

Britain's Best Historic Sites takes the reader on a journey around this ancient land, detailing over 80 of the most important and fascinating of Br...

All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! Test your London knowledge with this fas...

Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history. Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers ...

Londons Strangest Tales takes a walk on Londons weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the worlds greatest cities. ...

More extraordinary but true stories from Londons history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London...

A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the ver...

George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murde...

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 ch...

For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens, wayward children, royal aunts and uncles, distant ...

Take a step back into the world of steam railways, and discover the reality of life and work on Britain''s railway system before the Beeching cuts ...

For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else m...

From humble beginnings as a shopkeeper's son in Coventry to 'Page of the Backstairs' at Clarence House, William Tallon, or 'Backstairs Billy' as he...

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.As a boy he had to kill pheasa...

Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses a...

'Shiveringly good suspense!' Lisa GardnerTHE FIFTH BOOK IN A GRIPPING SERIES FROM 30 MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR.One by one he'll stalk them, then ...