Category Archives: Maps
The Almanac 2020: A Seasonal Guide to 2020
A perfect toolkit connecting with the world around us and the year ahead as it unfolds – all in a compact and pocket size that just begs you to pick it up and browse.`The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2020` reinvents the tradition of the rural almanac for a new audience. It gives you the
Hard Like Water
A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China`s Cultural RevolutionOn his return to his village in the Balou Mountains, soldier Gao Aijun sees a young woman wandering barefoot along the railway tracks in the warm late-afternoon sun. Her name is Hongmei. Aijun is instantly intoxicated, his
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.Haruki Murakami`s passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down
Hunters in the Dark
“A modern Graham Greene”. (Sunday Times). Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates
A State of Freedom
What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings
Hinton
Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton`s obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton`s science fictions. In a bravura and startling meeting
Judas
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017Amos Oz`s first major novel in a decade – since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 2 million copies worldwideShmuel – a young, idealistic student – has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
Karachi. Pakistan`s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force, a place in which it pays to have friends in the right places and to avoid making deadly enemies. It is a society
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her
Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town
In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance, defining the country today. In Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau where dozens of Tibetans have shocked the world since 2009 by immolating themselves. Following
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
Here`s a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. Here`s another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World
Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Children`s Travel Book of the YearHow did the USA become a superpower?Why do people go to war?And why are some countries rich while others are so poor?Find the answers to these questions and many more in this eye-opening book, which uses maps to explain how geography
The Story of Maps
Ideal for anyone with cartographic curiosities. This book tells the story of the inception and creation of maps.
Red Line: The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing true story of the mission to find and destroy Syria`s chemical weapons and defeat ISIS – only to lose control of both.`Presents [the story] sharply and compellingly` Washington Post`Excellent` IndependentIn August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war.
Spring Betrayal
`Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation` Anthony Horowitz Inspector Akyl Borubaev`s Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan is a lawless post-Soviet metropolis rife with corruption and vice. A hard-hitting thriller for fans of Tom Rob Smith and Gorky Park. We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the
Chinese Whispers: China Thriller 6
GRUESOME MURDERSHis victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing`s serious crime squad, must stop him.FEARSOME LETTERSJust as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer`s cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions.CHINESE WHISPERSThere`s no way Li can
The World of Cycling According to G
Sit back or saddle up as double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Geraint Thomas gives you a warts and all insight into the life of a pro cyclist. Along the way he reveals cycling`s clandestine codes and secret stories, tales from the peloton, the key characters like Wiggins, Hoy and Cav, the pivotal
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria`s Great Merchant City
A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria`s civil war.Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria`s brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are
The Origin of ISIS
The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider
Destroying A Nation
Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to
