The Robson Press

Charlotte is a hugely popular broadcaster, but more than that, she is a national treasure. Until her voluntary retirement from the BBC in 2013, Charlotte, was the voice of Radio 4 and voted “the most attractive voice on national radio”.  Her warm and perfectly modulated tones (“like honey with a 99 flake crushed into it being spread on fluffy scones”) were reassuring to her devoted listeners of news stories, read to the nation over a period of 27 years. For her newscast on the day of the London bombings on 7/7/05, she garnered a Sony Gold Award.  As The Times said: “Nobody wished listeners ‘a peaceful night’ quite like her.”  Charlotte’s highly entertaining autobiography will be the book, which all Radio 4 and Classic FM devotees will feel compelled to buy, for the joy of reading her insider revelations, and finding out about this wonderfully warm, funny and modest woman.  Her writing is as beautiful as her voice.

This is the story of Prince Harry, the popular third in line to the British throne – impulsive, deeply caring, and able to engage spontaneously with ordinary people and children. Chris Hutchins’s insightful and superbly sourced text tracks the roller-coaster trajectory of the Prince’s life, from a childhood scarred by his parents’ troubled marriage and his mother’s tragic death, to his brilliant public performances at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the 2012 London Olympics and his brother’s wedding to Kate Middleton. It sets out the remarkable journey of a young man with an extraordinary destiny, with many revelations along the way. Hutchins draws his sources from a wide range of those who know the real Harry: from the girls he has loved and lost, to the soldiers who have fought alongside him in Afghanistan.

Foreword by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh

Immortalised by the film Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams remains one of Britain’s all-time great Olympians, but as Mark Ryan’s powerful biography recounts, the true story of his life is even more dramatic and moving than as portrayed on the big screen.

Latvian teenage boxer, Nathan Shapow, saw his youth disappear among the terrors of the Jewish ghettos and the Nazi concentration camps.  He defied almost certain death on numerous occasions through his quick-thinking and his prowess as a boxer.  He even killed one of his Nazi tormentors, managing to escape detection.  Remarkably, he survived the war and contrived to enter what was then British-controlled Palestine.  There he was reunited with the girl he had fallen for in one of the camps.  Still married in their nineties, they live happily in the USA.