Books published by Nine Elms Books

During a football match no one pays the referee or the referee's assistants any attention - until they make a mistake. Then all hell breaks loose. Gavin Muge threads an entertaining personal football memoir together with his own attempts to scale the peak of the professional game as a match official.

Saigon, 1963. With the tensions of war starting to swirl, rookie photographer Ned Rivers lands in South Vietnam, hungry for the iconic shot that will make his name. He finds it sooner than expected, and the consequences are as unexpected as they are nerve-racking.

For an unintentional politician, David Freud has had more impact on the United Kingdom than most. This is the riveting dialogue-driven inside story of his battles - with Westminster and Whitehall alike - to modernize our welfare system. Amongst his reforms was the highly controversial introduction of Universal Credit.

This reprint of Thomas Seccombe's highly successful 1880 book will resonate with all who have an interest in observing life - military and otherwise. The amusingly illustrated perils of being a Victorian soldier and the appropriately selected Shakespearian quotes will delight and amuse the modern reader.

The public perception of the Guards is of soldiers used for just ceremonial duties. The Drum Horse in the Fountain demonstrates how far from the mark is this image. It captures the careers, accomplishments, follies and the occasional crimes of over three hundred men who have served in the seven Regiments of the British sovereign's personal troops.

The United Kingdom is a treasure-trove of military acquisitions - ranging from the bizarre to the priceless. In 'The Spoils of War' historian Christopher Joll unveils the remarkable, and often strange, stories of how and where many of them were procured.

Revealing new insight into Paddy Leigh Fermor's many Romanian journeys.