This reference guide to both singles and albums in the UK pop charts lists titles, artists, labels, catalogue numbers, highest positions attained, number of weeks on chart and US no.1 information, as well as selected biographies and pop news.

The BSA range of unit construction singles was in production for 15 years. This history of the BSA unit singles runs from the 250cc ohv single cylinder, C15 Star of 1958 to the B50 of 1971 and includes the Triumph-badged derivatives. It provides advice relating to the purchase, restoration, and maintenance of these machines.

It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiance and her brother and regarded by society as a 'surplus woman' unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone. A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-houses and sidelong glances at her naked ring finger from younger colleagues; but it is also a life gleaming with...