The romantic story of the courtship, love and marriage of Ceril, a young English girl, and ‘B. Bira’, a Siamese Prince, racing driver and sculptor, set in the golden years of the Thirties, in a world now vanished and before Siam became Thailand.

The incredible rags to riches story of one of the world's greatest motorcycle racers.

The biography of Cliff Allison, who began motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart, Allison was not one of the party-going racing crowd, but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. With 100 photos, full history and complete race results, this is a fascinating piece of motorsport’s past.

Biography of Phitsanulokprachanat, Prince, son of Chulalongkorn, King of Siam, 1882-1920, and his wife, Ekaterina Ivanovna Desnitsky, 1888-1960.

Illustrated profiles of the greatest motorsports pairings of man and machine, from the winner of the first Indy 500 race to the Audi R10 the dominated Le Mans for nearly a decade.

'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' – Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' – Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' – Kate Summerscale SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 A SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she was already a figure of mystery during the childhood of her nephew Ferdinand Mount. Half a century later, a series of startling revelations sets him off on a tortuous quest to find out who this extraordinary millionairess really was. What he discovers is shocking and irretrievably sad, involving multiple deceptions, false identities and abandonments. The story leads us from the back streets of Sheffield at the end of the Victorian age to the highest echelons of English society between the wars. An unconventional tale of British social history told backwards, now published with new material discovered by the author about his eccentric aunt, Kiss Myself Goodbye is both an enchanting personal memoir and a voyage into a vanished moral world