Old Street Publishing

The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, run by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimir watches his Great Game line up, while the Baltic and Vizegrad states shiver -- and everyone looks to Berlin. B...

How to Enjoy the World Cup is the ultimate companion for this summer. Writer, comedian and football guru, Chris England, known also for An Evening with Gary Lineker and, Balham to Bollywood has created an invaluable - and hilarious – handbook to the 2014 World Cup. The book provides you with a solid background knowledge and analysis of all 32 teams competing, full tournament schedule and advice on how to re...

John Russell is walking home through the grey streets of postwar London when his old accomplice, Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin, falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin informs Russell that his masters in Moscow have decided it's time to pay them back for securing his safe passage from Russia in the last days of the war.

The creation of the late great English humorist Miles Kingston, Franglais is the ultimate invented language, and will entertain anyone who had the joy of studying French at school.

Was Britain's postwar rebuilding the height of midcentury chic or the concrete embodiment of Crap Towns? John Grindrod decided to find out how blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass.