John Nichol

Fight for your country, and fight to the last... The Falklands, 1999 – a vital strategic stronghold and oil-rich gem in the South Atlantic. For RAF pilot Sean Riever it is a place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, his co-pilot, a place of tough decisions. An air of menace hangs over the desolate, battle-scarred landscape; present dangers and past mysteries lurk in the shadows on the skyline. Then a Royal Navy nuclear submarine disappears, and Argentine...

Out of the frying pan, and into the fire... Sickened by the bloody toll of a war that cost the lives of friends and the woman he loved, RAF pilot Sean Riever transfers units, heading for the remote mountains of Afghanistan. His work there with the mine-clearance teams takes him as close to the shadow of war as he ever wants to get again. But when a British passenger plane is shot down by a Stinger missile over the east coast of America, Sean is...

"The glimpses of aerial combat are brilliant" in this pulse-pounding RAF thriller, where it could be pilot error-or a sinister plot. (The Daily Telegraph). They're supposed to be routine missions-but one by one, RAF Tempests are crashing in the midst of them. No one knows why, and the Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error. Suspicious of a cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose own friends have been among the fatalities,...

This 1892 biography of the great English historian was part of the acclaimed English Men of Letters series. Nichol wrote the biography based on his own in-depth analysis of Carlyle's work, Nichol's personal impressions of Carlyle, as well as information from other biographies. As well as the story of Carlyle's life, this biography contains chapters entitled, "Carlyle as a man of Letters, Critic, and Historian," "Carlyle's Political Philosophy," and...

On the 17th May 1943, 133 airmen set out in 19 Lancasters to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. 56 of them did not return. Despite these catastrophic losses, the raid became a propaganda triumph. The survivors were feted as heroes and became celebrities of their time. John Nichol retraces the path of 617 Squadron's most dangerous sorties as their reputation called them into action again and again.

Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship is a very funny illustrated story about a boy's chaotic journey on the tail of his runaway rocket. Smashing through walls, tearing along corridors, breaking rooves, looping and diving, the rocket roars into the skies above Landfill Public School with Sascha, two screaming teachers and an oven full of pies attached, while a host of educational bric a brac swirls along in its wake. Told in hilarious rhyming verse and beautiful,...