Books published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

Footballing legend Tommy Smith played with Liverpool for eighteen years from 1960 to 1978. During this time he won almost every honour club football has to offer - 4 First Division Championship medals, 2 FA Cup winners medals, 2 European Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, 1 European Super Cup and 5 Charity Shields.

Ellie's life is turned upside down when she learns the heartbreaking news that her best friend, Lucy, has been murdered. And, as best friends do, Ellie drops everything to travel to London to pick up the pieces.

Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her 'bonnie sweet Robin' - the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. And when Dudley's wife, Amy, died a mere two years later under suspicious circumstances many speculated that Elizabeth and Robert would marry.

Nine years ago Richard Allen fled England when his greedy, ambitious father, the Earl of Manford, betrothed him to Julia Miller, the daughter of London's wealthiest merchant. But when he attempts to woo her at a ball, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with Julia Miller.

For Lady Rebecca Marshall, a whirlwind of passion and excitement begins when she becomes a maid of honor at the court of Queen Victoria. Rebecca's mother is delighted - this appointment could be a golden opportunity for her to make a good match.

On the eve of Granny Hazel's burial in the back garden, a stranger in his time machine - a machine that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Morris Minor - visits five year-old Edward with a strange request.

Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men - including George and Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and what it was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred.

In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. In her first two years of operation the Ark Royal survived countless attacks, and was considered one of the luckiest ships in the Navy. Within one month of sinking the Bismarck, the Ark Royal too was destroyed while sailing off the coast of Gibraltar.

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. And one of Carver's targets has got away. He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill.Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake.

On 17th April 1986 John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. This book describes the five years which he spent as a hostage, and its effects on those closest to him, especially his girlfriend, Jill Morrell. It also describes her campaign to free him and all the other British hostages in Beirut.

Reporter Annika Bengtzon is working on the story of a devastating crime when she hears that a journalist investigating the same incident has been killed. When Annika unravels a connection with the story she's writing, she is thrown on to the trail of a deadly psychopath.

Here is a heroine to cheer for and a book to cherish.' Margot Livesey, author of THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET and THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY 'Hauser recreates one of the oldest tales in Greek myth with great skill and panache.' Sunday Times'Fascinating and innovative .

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age.

From the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick I'm Travelling Alone'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday ExpressWhen a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond.

Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has written millions and millions of words for national newspapers previewing boxing, profiling boxers and proselytising on the business. It's Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing. It is a record of British boxing, British boxing people and fifty years of glory, heartache and drama.

When news of Volkswagen's clean diesel fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability and trust became a universal symbol of greed and deception. In this book, the author rips the lid off the scandal.

But when her daughter Poppy has to choose her inspiration for a school project and picks her aunt, not her mum, Hetty is left full of self-doubt. Hetty's always been generous with her time and until now, her biggest talent - baking deliciously moreish shortcrust pastry pies - has been limited to charity work and the village fete.

From the giddy heights of New Labour's landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank and funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense.

With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one.

But above all, he tells the nail-bitingly poignant human story of the families waiting ashore, of the desperate efforts of British, Norwegian and Russian rescuers, and of the Kursk sailors, trapped in the aft compartnemt, waiting for rescue, as a horrified world followed their battle to stay alive .

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many people as possible. His mission was to stop them. A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people.

When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home - he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors.

This is an examination of the part played by Edinburgh and South-East Scotland in World War II. The text also covers the strategic deception operations, undertaken to convince the Germans that the allied invasion of Norway was imminent, military training in the area and the social changes brought about by the war.

Des McKeown started at the top in football and worked his way down. Don't give up the day job is a no-holes-barred account of one season in the lofe of part-time players seen through the eyes of a husband, father, salesman and left-back.

This guide for Sheffield Wednesday fans includes information on players, managers, outstanding games and records. Everything a supporter would want to know about the club from its earliest days to the present is here. Information is in easy-to-use alphabetical order.

This is the book which landed the author in the Guinness Book of Records for his record-breaking 20,000-mile tour of every Football League Ground in England. This new and enlarged edition features reports on all 93 grounds visited by the author and is a comprehensive and entertaining guide for every football fanatic.

Julia Roberts is the top female box-office star in the world,the highest grossing actress of the past decade,according to a poll by Warner Bros. Her films have raked in half a billion dollars. The auburn-haired superstar cracked the all-male $20-million-per-picture club. This book deals with her life and work.