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This website details our wide range of specialist book publications that Mortons Media publish.

We create these books by drawing uppn the wealth of experience, skill and insight that only a major magazine publisher can offer - backed up by Europe's largest motorcycle image archive.

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Memories in Colour 2 - in stock now!
The Scrap Book Series: BSA - Now back in stock, limited copies available>>

British Steam 6: Memories in Colour - Volume 2

In stock now - £7.99

Ron White’s second selection of images completing his photographic ‘railway walk’ down memory lane with many more rare and unseen images from Britain's railway past.

■ Pre railway nationalisation colour images
■ The Somerset & Dorset Railway
■ London Transport steam
■ Named trains of the steam era
■ Narrow gauge locomotives 1950-1960
■ Steam locomotives in Ireland
■ Built for export, British locomotives abroad

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Just Jenson

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For motorsport fans everywhere and fresh from his first Formula One World Drivers’ Championship, the story that everyone has been waiting for is finally here in a quality ‘bookazine’ format… Just Jenson.

Charting Jenson Button’s life story from the tough and unforgiving circuits of the karting world to his defining moment this season when he took the crown as Formula 1 World Champion, Just Jenson is the perfect companion to the motor sport racing year.

This insightful and appropriate tribute to Jenson Button is brought to you by renowned magazine publishers Mortons Media Group Ltd. Written by David Addison, motorsport journalist and commentator with Bob Constanduros, F1 fanatic and auto correspondent; they have brought a wealth of knowledge to the title.

Jenson’s career has had many highs and lows, having been fighting for the F1 championship for 10 years, but through it all, and in particular through the adversity, sheer graft has seen fortune favour, particularly in 2009. His decision to stick with his former BAR Honda Team principal Ross Brawn in a new team paid off, wrapping up the title with even a race to spare. Just Jenson encapsulates all of this magic and much more within its 132 pages.

Editor, David Addison said: “Jenson Button’s season has been quite extraordinary after a disappointing few. To be staring the end of his career in the face last December to being World Champion in less than 11 months is unprecedented in Formula 1 and is a story worth telling. The Button tale is one of successes and disappointments, but culminates with biggest high of them all, all of which are featured within this bookazine.”

For every motorsport fan, this will be the must-have read of the year and can be brought direct from our on-line store.

Aviation Classics

A new series looking at world’s greatest aircraft.
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Welcome to Aviation Classics, a new series of high-quality glossy publications centred on the world’s greatest aircraft, the events in which they played crucial roles and those who flew, maintained and supported them.

We begin with the Avro Lancaster, a type held in high regard by Bomber Command aircrew and an aircraft still admired by so many.

The sight and sound of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s PA474 flying around the country will turn anyone’s head, and can bring a tear to the eye of those with a personal connection as it brings back emotional memories of fallen comrades and family.
Over 55,000 Bomber Command aircrew didn’t return home and many more were physically and mentally scarred. Groundcrew, too, lost their lives with their efforts to keep the aircraft flying.

British Steam 5: Memories in Colour - Volume 1

The fifth in the British Steam series | Keith Langston / Ron White
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The best known collection of coloured railway images is perchance the Colour Rail Collection painstakingly compiled over the last 32 years by knowledgeable railway enthusiast Ron White. Ron has decided to retire from the railway image scene and to commemorate the occasion he has selected his favourite colour steam images to be used in two unique publications.
The first highlights steam on British Railways.

This fascinating selection has been subdivided into Western Region, London Midland Region, Southern Region, Eastern Region and Scottish Region.
Steam locomotives and BR trains are depicted at work in over 200 superb full colour images. Past recipients of Ron¹s amusingly written catalogues will perhaps consider these collections of memories as illustrated farewell editions of the popular Old Ron¹s Almanac!
The 132-page full colour bookazines are destined to become 'must have' railway enthusiast keepsakes, in addition to being truly invaluable reference books. Available from WHSmith or direct from publishers Mortons Media Group, priced at £7.99.

Britain's Weirdest Railways

The bold, the brave, the brash, the bizarre, the downright bonkers! | Robin Jones
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An amazing journey along the most unusual railways ever built in the British Isles

You will never have seen a railway book like this before. Heritage Railway editor has combed the British Isles to find the country’s weirdest railways, and presented the strangest of them in one volume.
For years, conspiracy theorists talked about a secret railway network beneath Wiltshire to serve a bunker city which would haven been the seat of government ion the event of a nuclear war - and were proved right! The pictures are all in this book.
Also, did you realise that there is a secret railway running through the fairytale island of St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, or the remains of a complete network on Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel? Brunel’s Grewat Western Railway broad gauge was years ahead of its time - and so was his atmospheric railway - but both were edged out by market forces and deficiencies of available technology.

Visit the Spurn Head Railway with its sail-powered vehicles. Look at the Volks Electric Railway in Brighton, the first electric line in Britain, and its truly bizarre sister line which had a passenger car running on stilts through the sea.
Take a trip on the world’s smallest double-tracked public railway, the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch, to Dungeness and not only find a village made from old railway carriages, but a series of strange railways laid across the shingle. See the fabulous double-ended Fairlies in action on the Ffestiniog Railway - and on the standard gauge in South Wales too!
Visit the farm lines in Lincolnshire used to carry potatoes to make Smith’s Crisps.
See the unique railways carved from stone which was used to carry granite blocks to build London Bridge. Review Britain’s plans for hover trains - and British Railway’s patent for a flying saucer - a true story! All this and much, much more is to be found in Britain’s Weirdest Railways, a truly unique publication not to be missed!

Scrapbook series: BSA

Now back in stock!

This amazing book sold out within two months of it's release, we now have an additional limited 500 copies in stock now.
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Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) was the largest motorcycle maker in the world. The firm enjoyed a reputation for building quality, affordable machines, aimed at riders of all types, from the commuter to the sportsman. BSA was a byword for good, honest motorcycles, for generations of riders.

Mortons Media Group has the old archive of both Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling, the two weekly motorcycle magazines that their were in their pomp at the same time as ‘the BSA’ and so, naturally, there is a wealth of BSA pictures and related items in the Mortons’ archive. The bookazine will provide the opportunity for some of this material – of which a lot is previously unpublished – to finally get a deserved airing.

Favoured by everyone from the Post Office to international motocross riders, BSA manufactured a wide range of machines to suit all needs, from Bantams to Gold Stars, from ‘Round Tanks’ to Road Rockets – this appealing diversity will be celebrated in the second of The Scrapbook Series.

Encyclopaedia of classic motorcycles (Hardback book)

• Hardback 12" x 10" book - 420 pages
IN STOCK NOW! - Order on-line

This book is the culmination of hours of painstaking work by author Richard Rosenthal who has, over a number of years, developed a passion for old motorcycles.

The Encyclopaedia of Classic Motorcycles will become the definitive guide to classic motorcycles, from the very earliest attempts to motorise pedal cycles to the latest technology seen in more modern-day machinery.
It lists in alphabetical order all the machines you are ever likely to see from the dawn of two-wheeled power right up to the mid 1980’s.

• Visit our micro site for more details, introduction from the editor and the A-Z list of motorcycles marques covered in this title.

• This book is only available on-line, from our selected bike shows or from the VMCC