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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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Tornado
- Britain's first main line steam engine since 1960

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Officially ednorsed by the A1 Steam locomotive trust, the Tornado bookazine is the official account of the building of Britain's first main line steam locomotive for 50 years, how it took a team of volunteers 18 years to raise more than £2-million to build it and its international headline-grabbing debut on the main line, with a royal visit thrown in for good measure.

The bookazine looks at the history of the A1 class and the East Coast Main Line which they were built to run on, the man who designed them, Arthur H Peppercorn, the preservation movement which evolved from a handful of volunteers saving a cash-strapped steam railway in central Wales in 1949 to the point where it could build a main line express passenger locomotive, and how the dream of building Tornado came to fruition stage by stage at Darlington.

The bookazine is lavishly illustrated with both archive and contemporary photographs bringing the story up to date.

Format: Glossy A4 perfect bound Magazine
Number of pages: 132
Also available at: W H Smith stores from mid June 2009 for a limited time

British Steam - Past & Present

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This is the third in the popular British Steam series. The bookazine contains an evocative mix of specially commissioned modern steam images and steam era archive pictures, the majority of which have never been published before.

The recently completed rebuild of ex LMS N0. 6100 Royal Scot is heralded with an in depth study of that restoration and the history of that iconic ex LMS locomotive class, including the facts surrounding the long standing ‘which Scot went to the USA’ argument.

Island Racer 2009

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This year’s edition is the best yet, bringing road racing fans bang up to date with every class of racing and every superstar of the world’s toughest road events. Fourteen-times TT winner John McGuiness will be explaining why this is going to be one of his best years ever on The Island, while Guy Martin opens up about his heartbreak at being robbed of his first win last year plus much, much more.

Written by Motorcycle Sport & Leisure Editor and Eurosport TV Presenter Tony Carter, Island Racer 09 has exclusive interviews from the biggest names and is just filled with all the stories from behind the scenes - don’t miss out

The MOD Years (Original re-print)

Ordering available from our 2009 limited re-print run -
in stock now, just £6.99 inc. P&P

Possibly the most enduring expression of a youth culture, the Mod movement has spawned its own fashions, music and a lifestyle that refuses to go away.

Mods homes in on the colourful history of the Mod and brings the story bang up-to-date, calling in on the various ‘mod revivals’ along the way. From the lovingly crafted scooters, to the bands who provided the soundtrack to millions of lives via the fashions and people who made - and still make - the Mod scene so vibrant, Mods tells the story like it really is.

Heartbeat - The story behind the series

An EXCLUSIVE book on the history and facts surrounding this massive TV series, produced in conjunction with the series makers and stars, BY NICHOLAS RHEA author of the books that inspired Heartbeat.

Heartbeat, Britain’s best-loved television drama series, is produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network. Set in rural North Yorkshire during the 1960s and accompanied by music of the era, it chronicles the life of a village policeman as he goes about his varied duties in a small moorland community. The series includes a strong medical strand and some gentle humour as it focuses on the lives and problems of the local population, although it is inevitable that some serious crimes and detection methods are featured.

Just Rossi

JUST ROSSI is the perfect companion to the motorcycle racing year and the ongoing legend of seven times World Champion Valentino Rossi.
Delivering never-seen-before pictures of the greatest motorcycle racer of all time, Just Rossi is an unofficial 132 page publication that combines amazing photography with the complete story of Valentino, from his humble beginnings as the son of a racer to one of the most revered sportsmen on the planet.

Just Rossi takes the reader from inside the Rossi family right through the past 13 years of top-flight competition and up to the current MotoGP racing season, one where Rossi is widely tipped to take his eighth world crown.

The Art of Scooters

The scooter scene is truly a unique one in the people it attracts, the scooters we ride and the places we visit.

Featuring heavily are the classic Italian marques of Lambretta and Vespa, on their own a beautiful example of automotive design, but in the hands of a creative scooter enthusiast they are an inspirational blank canvas.

Format: Glossy A4 perfect bound Book
Number of pages: 132
On sale now • Available in W H Smith stores.

The scrapbook series - Triumph

This is the first in a projected ‘scrapbook series’ which will be A4 bookazines produced using images mainly sourced from the massive Mortons archive (Over 4.2 million images!).

The scrapbook series recaptures thelook and feel of scrapbooks, traditionally put together by enthusiasts (young and old) to detail their particular pastime.
There will images charting the history of the company, from its early days, through war service, economic boom and down turn, hard times and good, plus pages dedicated to sporting achievement and participation. It will, hopefully, provide a ‘history by picture’ of the company - in this case Triumph - and prove a hit with both die-hard enthusiast, and those with a casual interest.