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  • 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 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

    $16.59 USD

  • The Gambler

    by John Pearson ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $10.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shaver

    by John Pearson ...
    On most days, Wisconsin farmer Lawrence (Shaver) Ketch works hard and fast in the mornings so he can be at his mother’s bar in the village of Wonder by noon for lunch. His routine is disrupted when a tragic accident at a nearby lake kills two teenage boys. An old nemesis would like to hold Shaver’s brother JJ, the county sheriff, responsible for the tragedy. Shaver knows that JJ has done no wrong ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Baseball, Flyfishing, and the Piano

    by John Pearson ...
    In our family baseball, flyfishing, and the piano were not just activities we enjoyed frequently; they were life itself. Our lives were lived in them, through them and the trail they wove held our love, understanding of one another and our sense of trust in an unbreakable bond. Years later as time moved on and was in some ways unkind and our bond was tested, no storm of life, no trial, no error ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia's Agricultural Transformation

    by CRAIG JOHN PEARSON ...
    Chance discoveries and world-leading research transformed Australia's agriculture. They made farming possible in marginal areas and more sustainable everywhere. How did it happen and who made it happen?The story starts with earliest discoveries, such as Amos Howard's finding subterranean clover in 1889, through the golden era of research, the spread of annual legumes and the breeding of a new crop ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bellamy Saga

    by John Pearson ...
    First published in 1976, this fictional biography is the intimate and detailed portrait of the celebrated Bellamy family of the TV show Upstairs, Downstairs.No family in the past century - excepting perhaps the Forsytes - has been so dramatically exposed to public stare as the Bellamys of Eaton Place. Drawing from the diaries of Richard Bellamy, the personal letters of Lady Majorie, the Southwold ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Bodies, Brains, People and Machines

    by John Pearson ...
    Memory, consciousness, thought, emotion and pleasure generated by our brains underlie choice, values, morals, communication, avarice, aggression ans social interaction. Behaviors depend largely on inborn brain circuitry but are modifiable by experience. Although impressive in versatility and power our brains are not perfect. They often mislead us.To compensate for limitations in intelligence, ... Read more

    $6.66 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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