Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Winner of the 2019 Costa Prize First Novel Award
“Deep-diving and elegant… `Wide Sargasso Sea` meets `Beloved` meets `Alias Grace`” Margaret AtwoodWinner of the 2019 Costa Prize First Novel Award`They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don`t believe I`ve done?`1826, and all of London is
Girl, Woman, Other – Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize
Winner of the 2019 Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020Shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn PrizeThis is Britain as you`ve never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, `Girl, Woman, Other` follows a
Where Reasons End
`Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art` Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers`A masterpiece. This book haunts me more than any other novel I`ve read in recent years` Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to YouFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Vagrants, a devastating and utterly original
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history.
Ness
Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful – a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of `Holloway`, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood”`Ness` goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb — it is an aftertime song” Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of `Grief is the Thing with Feathers`Somewhere on a
Olive, Again: New novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton`A terrific writer` Zadie Smith`A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own` Hilary Mantel `A novel to treasure` Sunday TimesOlive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as
Berta Isla
“The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature” Boston GlobeA thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of `The Infatuations` and `A Heart So White`”For a while, she wasn`t sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not…”Berta Isla and Tomรกs Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young
The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS
From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world`s most elite fighting force – the SAS`Breathtaking bravery, astonishing feats of endurance, raids and battles described with terrific immediacy and pace. Compelling and definitive . . . will surely not be bettered` Sunday TelegraphOn 4 May 1980, seven
The Parade
From the bestselling author of `The Monk of Mokha` and `The Circle` comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners` role in a nation`s fragile peace.”Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute… An intensely gripping story” Evening StandardAn unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the
Life Class
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women`s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker`s acclaimed `Life Class` trilogy – an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart`Triumphant, inspiring, shattering` The Times`Barker writes as brilliantly as ever… With great
Ancient Light
`Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.`Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of
The Rotters` Club
`Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . . .`Coming of age in 1970s` Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to
The Photograph
`DO NOT OPEN – DESTROY.`The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath`s hand, but Glyn ignores his wife`s instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly excavates the past,
Submarine
`Are we making a bomb?` `This is a trust exercise, like in drama,` she says. `Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?`Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding
A Spell of Winter
`I wanted us to wake to a kingdom of ice where our breath would turn to icicles as it left our lips, and we would walk through tunnels of snow to the outhouses and find birds fallen dead from the air . . .`In the years just before World War One, Cathy and her brother
Agent Running in the Field
`The British spy thriller at its unputdownable best` Observer Nat, a veteran of Britain`s Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle the growing threat from Moscow Centre, Nat is put in charge of The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a
The Beautiful Summer
`An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love… there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante` Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction`Life was a perpetual holiday in those days…`It`s the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a
The Big Sleep
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood`s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA`s seedy backstreets, Marlowe`s got his work cut out – and that`s
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS`An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India` Daily Telegraph`At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light
On Anarchism
In On Anarchism, Noam Chomsky – author, activist and anarchist – offers a vital overview of the meanings of anarchism and the foundations of his thought.Refuting the notion of anarchism as a fixed idea, and disputing the traditional fault lines between anarchism and socialism, this is a book sure to challenge, provoke and inspire. Profoundly
