Books published by The Book Guild Ltd

This is based on the route described in The Coast-to-Coast Walk by Alfred Wainwright. Trevor Bell sets off along the same pathways. The result is a historical, and partly anecdotal, account of the route from Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire to St Bees in Cumbria, evoking a nostalgia for an England which is fast disappearing.

Take One, Action! takes you behind the scenes of swordplay in film - written by professional swordsman and film director Andy Wilkinson who has appeared in over seventy-three films, including many Hollywood blockbusters.

Harmsworth. A remote, mist-shrouded island in the Russian Arctic. Archaeology Professor Callum Ross makes the discovery of a lifetime: a prehistoric ice mummy preserved for thousands of years by the sub-zero temperatures. Only, they didn't die of natural causes...

What A Wag! is an engaging collection of poems written from the dogs' perspective. It is the eighth book of original metric rhyming verse by Gill Rowe and contains beautiful hand-drawn illustrations.

This is an account of a year in the life of Peter Berry, an ordinary man living in a sleepy Suffolk village. Happily married and running a successful business, Peter's life changes when, at the age of fifty, he is given a terminal diagnosis of early-onset dementia.

The book is a collection of 50 short pieces, ranging widely over topics briefly related to church occasions and Christian faith including Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, weddings, funerals, parenthood, prayer, belief, and hope. Though much of the material was written during Adrian's time as a country parson, it is only occasionally autobiographical.

London, 1858. Passionate, contradictory, and fiercely loyal to his friends, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius, famed across Britain for his writings on art and philosophy. Unto This Last is a portrait of Ruskin's tormented psyche and reveals a complex and misunderstood soul, longing for a life just out of reach.

A mother, having suffered two cot deaths, was wrongly accused of murdering her babies. "What if I had been on the jury...?"

Boo the tabby cat is born on a Lincolnshire farm and seems destined for a simple life. Everything changes when she's put up for adoption and is taken in by Ellie Caldwell, an adventurous Cambridge graduate student who loves animals and is studying to become a wildlife conservationist.

What Major John MacBride learns when leading the Irish Brigade in the Second Anglo-Boer War against the British Empire isn't much help when fighting his estranged wife in the French courts.

The first-ever complete study of the Aldwych farce films (1924-1954) and the plays they were based on. The thirteen Aldwych farces were phenomenally successful in the West End between 1922 and 1933.

It is 1967. A mysterious disease appears in an English town. People fall down suddenly, poleaxed, and many die. Is it caused by a bacterium, a virus, a poison? Nobody knows.

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers 'the gift'. In this third book of the Poetic Justice series, he achieves widespread fame, as an author and entrepreneur.

London, 1666. After the sudden death of her father, thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hopper and her mother must take over The White Pheonix- the family bookshop in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. But England is at war with France and dire prophecies abound...

A wicked conspiracy. A diabolical offer. Survival: a matter of life or death! Behind the walls of Blackleigh, a prestigious public boarding school in northern England lurks wickedness and bullying. Those in power form a conspiracy to devise any means to expel certain boys. Surviving for their victims becomes a matter of life and death...

Baz Clifford, a young medical biochemist makes an important discovery in the course of her research that seems to cast doubt on the nature of a young woman's death. The police and the woman's husband refuse to reconsider the possibility that she may have been murdered, as Baz suspects...

Deter Edison is an ordinary girl, or so she thought... After a brutal kidnapping, Deter finds herself propelled into a world that she knows nothing about.