Best Selling Books by Richard Freeman

As team doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, Dr Richard Freeman treated the world''s most successful cyclists, such as Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton. From 2009 until 2017, the ''Doc'' was part of the team who became national heroes with Olympic and Tour de France victories. In The Line, Dr Freeman reveals the medical principles and practices that helped lead these athletes to success - ideas that we now consider commonplace, but many of which were in fact the Doc''s own innovations. And in a sport where there''s an ethical line as well as a finishing line, Dr Freeman gives a frank and open account in response to allegations of misuse of medical treatment to enhance performance.

My name is Richard Freeman. Now retired I wish to share my experiences, gathered from over 50 years working alone at sea in an 18ft boat. Notably true tales about my amazing adventures with remarkable Sea Birds, spectacular close encounters with Humpback Whales, marvellous Dolphins and other awesome creatures which shared with me a tiny piece of their vast ocean. The text tells the story and actual images take you there as it happens. The book is suitable for all ages, young and old. Learn of my pet dolphin I call Dolly and the dolphin I call Old Girl. Dolly brings back a fish when it falls off my line and Old Girl has a trick which chases the sharks away. The book contains stories of face to face encounters with Sharks and one frightening encounter with an Orca. There are stinging Bluebottles like you have never seen before. I share many amazing stories of daily visits from sea birds. This includes Albatross with their magnificently long wings and Australian Gannets performing death defying high dives. My Giant Petrels acted a little comical, thus, I show why they always have me smiling. My Blue Fairies have stunning, beautiful blue and silvery grey feathers with striking, blue webbed feet. The tiny Wilson''s Storm Petrels show why they are the little darlings in the high seas. I tell why the Jaegers and Skuas are the nasty Pirates in the high seas. The Shearwaters are the all-rounders and the ever present Terns are always there to keep me company. Finally I tell about my boat and the battles of surviving severe weather events.

In just six months, America turned the rout of Pearl Harbor into the victories of Coral Sea and Midway. ''Whirlwind: War in the Pacific'' tells the story of how America achieved this staggering turnaround using accounts of the three key Pacific battles of 1942. Pearl Harbor: Hinge of War Just over seventy years ago the world witnessed one of the most audacious and villainous surprise attacks in history. While Tokyo and Washington talked peace, hundreds of Japanese war planes descended on the Sunday morning calm of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In less than 90 minutes four battleships were sunk, four more badly damaged and hundreds of American warplanes lay burnt out in tangled heaps on the runways. The story of the raid is one of Japanese military skill meeting American courage. As airfields and ships were attacked, as planes caught fire and ships capsized, the men of the army and navy heroically fought to save the planes, the ships and their compatriots. Coral Sea 1942 After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbour, the Americans suffered setback after setback in the Pacific. In May 1942, the Japanese were poised to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. At all costs the Americans had to stop them. Admiral Frank Fletcher was dispatched with two aircraft carriers - Yorktown and Lexington - with orders to destroy the Japanese invasion force. The fate of the Pacific was in the balance. ''Coral Sea 1942'' tells the dramatic story of that conflict. The great Coral Sea victory came at a price. Pilots died in dog-fights; crippled planes fell into the sea; damaged planes crashed onto carrier flight decks; and pilots found themselves stranded on remote islands. But the battle was an American triumph. Japan entered it as an aggressor at the peak of her imperial power. She left the battle with her dominance shattered. The tide had turned. Midway Never was there a naval battle like Midway. It was fought at a place thousands of miles from land, by hundreds of planes over distances of hundreds of miles. It saw four massive Japanese aircraft carriers pitted against three similarly huge American carriers in a battle for domination of the Pacific. The battle is the story of the young Japanese empire seeking to challenge the established industrial power of America. Japan was ready to risk all in one mighty attempt to drive the United States Navy from the Pacific Ocean. The battle that followed raged over three days, full of set backs and disaster for each side. But Admirals Yamamoto and Nagumo had over-reached themselves and suffered the greatest naval defeat in history. America entered Midway on the defensive, still a hesitant participant in the war. She left the battle as the world''s first super power. ''Whirlwind: War In The Pacific'' is a brilliant narrative history of three of the crucial naval battles of the Second World War. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the period. Richard Freeman graduated in mathematics before following a career in distance education. He now writes on naval history. His other books include ''The Great Edwardian Naval Feud''.

The wild, eccentric and outrageous life of Britain''s most insubordinate admiral. Mixes courage, audacity and pomposity with spite, venom and malevolence. Three times commander-in-chief, a member of Parliament for twenty years, and a public speaker who filled halls throughout the land - Lord Charles Beresford was all of these. Yet he was also a naval captain who had so little sea experience that he scrambled to qualify for flag rank. He endured long periods of unemployment when in disgrace with the Admiralty, while his one foray into ministerial life ended in resignation. He was also the most reprimanded naval officer of his time - perhaps of all time. Few men have enjoyed such fascinating and adventure-packed lives. The first ten years of Beresford''s naval career took him to every corner of the globe. He saw it all, from gold-mining to crucifixions, from the wild tribes of Terra del Fuego to the shadowy figure of the Emperor of Japan. When not recklessly throwing himself into perilous riding and wild hunting, he could be found risking his life to rescue fellow sailors. Yet, after a shaky start, Beresford''s career changed when, at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 his tiny HMS Condor took on the guns of one of the massive Egyptian forts. He was an overnight hero and remained so to his death. Three years later his even more spectacular adventures in the Sudan made him the hero of the failed campaign to rescue General Gordon from Khartoum. But his official life was marred by his persistent hostility to the Admiralty and government. He achieved the dubious honour of one Prime Minister (Lord Salisbury) vowing never to employ him again in a political capacity, and one First Lord of the Admiralty (Reginald McKenna) vowing never to employ him again in the Navy. So antagonistic did he become that his naval career was ignominiously ended by the curtailing of his final command. At the age of 64 all public appointments were closed to him. Never again did the Admiralty or government call on him for any purpose. He still, though, made his mark and, as an MP and then as a peer, he remained centre stage, speaking in Parliament up to a few weeks before his death and still writing letters on the day he died.

"This book represents my own kicking back at the poor excuse for horror we have had to endure for so long. But my second reason for writing it was to showcase some odd and overlooked pieces of British folklore. Too often horror is stuck in the rut of using the same subjects and monsters, when in folklore there is a wealth of concepts and creatures that are rarely tapped into. My favourite era of Dr Who was that of the third doctor, played by Jon Pertwee, and I think that one of the reasons I liked it so much was that for much of Pertwee''s tenure in the title role, The Doctor was confined to earth, mostly Britain. So that is what I have done here: these eighteen stories are all set in Britain, either in the present day, or within living memory. Herein you will find dragons and hellhounds, goblins and killer rodents, unicorns and basilisks. There is a vampire story, but the creature in it bears scant resemblance to the popular, and totally wrong, public perception of them. I hope this book will open your eyes to the potential of horror. It is more than just teenaged vampires hanging around schools."

Horror is always game for a life; no bone is left unturned, no body ignored in the haunt for a good joke. In the pages that follow, punishments are meted out in inventive fashion, a his-and-hearse mix of stories utterly in tomb with each other. Language, it seems, is truly the Devil''s plaything, and why should he have all the good jokes? After all, are we not all entitled to carrion laughing? In the end, dying is awfully good at raising the spirits and don''t let anyone tell you otherwise. Peace and blood...