Category Archives: Travel Guides
Chamberlain and Appeasement
This book provides a fresh and original approach to a controversial episode in British history, Chamberlain`s policy of `appeasement` towards Hitler`s Germany. Written directly from primary archival sources, Alastair Parker`s account offers the student new perspectives on the man who dominated the making of British policy before and after his `triumph` at Munich in September
Birds of the Eastern Caribbean
From Puerto Rico to Trinidad this a useful guide for birdwatching. Each is described and has a colour photograph to aid identification (the photos are excellent in themselves). One really excellent feature is the inclusion of local names for the species listed – perfect for confirming your sighting with local residents!
Miguel Street
Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul`s first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy. We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build `the wild
The Writer and the World – Essays
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by
Solace
`A wonderful novel. I was deeply moved. Outstanding.` John Boyne Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else was possible. But Mark is also drawn back — guiltily — to his family and the
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe
Graham Robb`s new book will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extaordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and
Outlaws Inc.
In the world`s most dangerous trouble spots, a small band of men risk their lives to fly in desperately needed aid. But they are not heroes. Their giant ex-Soviet cargo planes are also riddled with secret compartments, which they fill with drugs, guns, money or people. They deliver anywhere, and they rtake their cut. But
City & The City
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than
The Lie of the Land – An Under the Field Guide to the British Isles
Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting – as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car journey, the features of our green and pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, and he began
Kite Spirit
During the summer of her GCSEs Kite`s world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve. Kite`s dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and space to grieve. In London Kite is a confident girl, at home in the noisy, bustling
Carnival of the Dead
It`s February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as The Plague Doctor. Teresa has taken time out from her job to find her beloved bohemian aunt
India: A Million Mutinies Now
THE THIRD BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL`S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY — WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR Much has changed since V. S. Naipaul`s first trip to India and this fascinating account of his return journey focuses on India`s development since independence. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises of India — including Bombay, Madras,
Foundations – The History of England – Volume 1
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd
Former People
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin`s Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding
An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India
THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL`S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY — WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul`s semi-autobiographical account — at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered — of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old;
Half a Life
In Half a Life, we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the
King Rat
Something is stirring in London`s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul`s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the night-land behind London`s facade,
Turn in the South
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating
The Middle Passage – Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica.
