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...

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.

On the evening of 9th June 1956 in an apartment in Buenos Aires, a dozen men were arrested on suspicion of plotting against the Argentine government. A few hours later, the local police chief received the order to execute them. Almost all were innocent.

Moving from the very beginnings of civilisation, right up to the digital horizons of cyberspace, Jamie Crawford pieces together the biographies of twenty of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined structures. The lives of these buildings are packed with drama and intrigue combining war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope.

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.