Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Holocaust: A New History
The prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for thirty yearsThis book will answer two fundamental questions about the Holocaust. How, and why, did it happen?Laurence Rees`s answer, based on the latest academic research and twenty-five years of exploring the subject, reveals three themes. First, it was not just about the Jews –
Our Homesick Songs
“Warm-hearted and winsomely imaginative” Sunday Times The fish have been vanishing from the waters off Big Running, Newfoundland, and now the people are too… Amidst abandoned houses and closed schools, ten-year-old Finn and his sister Cora while away their nights counting the few remaining fishing boats on the coast. Meanwhile Finn`s music teacher, Mrs Callaghan,
The Grapes of Wrath
`To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.` Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no
The Witchfinder`s Sister: The captivating Richard & Judy Book Club historical thriller 2018
`The number of women my brother Matthew killed is one hundred and six…`THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER`A compelling debut from a gifted storyteller` Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentWhen Alice Hopkins` husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree, where her brother Matthew still
East of Eden
California`s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and
Flesh and Bone and Water
Brazilian-born doctor Andrรฉ Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about.The letter prompts Andrรฉ to remember the days of his youth – torrid afternoons on Ipanema
English Humour for Beginners
If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims George Mikes` timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it`s understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life. Perfectly
The Graphic Diary
`June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.`In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over
Three Daughters of Eve
Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground – an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past
Britain`s 100 Best Railway Stations
Discover the architectural gems that are Britain`s 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller`This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book` Chris EvansIt is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an
Heroes of the Frontier
From the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it`s time for the family vacation…Josie`s life is falling apart – lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a feckless husband long gone – so she gathers up her two kids and lights out for the wilderness. The
Exit West: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize”Mixing the real and the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic… Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian” Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of `The Reluctant Fundamentalist`This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World`s Rarest Species
Carlos Magdalena of Kew Gardens is not your average botanical horticulturist. He`s a man on a mission to save the world`s most endangered plants from destruction and thieves hunting for wealthy collectors. He is a plant messiah.From the planet`s tiniest waterlily – the Nymphaea thermarum – to Huarango trees with roots over 50 metres long,
A Start in Life
`Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.` Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships
The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo
The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London – when only one other existed across the world – is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all four corners of the globe. It is the story of a weird and wonderful
Family and Friends
`Sofka gazes ahead, with her family`s future before her …` Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a disgracefully charming `ladies` man, and like his flirtatious sister, Betty, is adored and indulged by his mother. Alfred
Ardennes 1944: Hitler`s Last Gamble
On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his `last gamble` in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler`s generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. The
The Bay of Angels
`It was at Millie`s party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives …` Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an
The Monk of Mokha
From the best-selling author of The Circle – the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana`a by civil warMokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the
White Tears
`A stunning, audacious new thriller… It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that`s exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook` NPR`A book that everyone should be reading right now` TIMENew Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again,
