Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Forty Rules of Love
From the author of The Architect`s Apprentice and Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak`s compelling and profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life and love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love…Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that
The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture
The Good Liar
NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERThis is a life told back to front.This is a man who has lied all his life.Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman. He will swiftly move in with
Autumn
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That`s what it felt like for Keats in 1819.How about Autumn 2016?Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand
Billy Liar
The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse`s Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying –
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
The real Wolf Hall – a time traveller`s guide to daily life in Tudor England. The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times – most notably in the court of Henry VIII – what was life really like for a
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford`s The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. `Obsessed with sex!` said Jassy, `there`s nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I`m a pygmalionist.` In the end we got more information out
Don`t Point That Thing at Me: The First Charlie Mortdecai Novel
Don`t Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli – Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp Introducing the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai, art dealer, aristocrat and assassin, in the first of the Mortdecai novels Portly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a stolen
Something Nasty in the Woodshed: The Third Charlie Mortdecai Novel
Something Nasty in the Woodshed – the third Charlie Mortdecai novel. “Splendidly enjoyable. The jokes are excellent, but the most horrible things keep happening”. (Sunday Telegraph). `Spring was infesting the air in no uncertain fashion and I awoke, for once, with a feeling of well-being and an urge to go for long country walks.` Charlie
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics.Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town
The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery: The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel
The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery – the fourth Charlie Mortdecai novel, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp. “Deliciously nasty…An adventurously off-piste whodunit”. (Observer). “She was a Fellow and Tutor of Scone College and the world must learn that Fellows and Tutors of Scone College shall not be done to death with impunity”.
After You with the Pistol: The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel
After you with the Pistol – the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp. “Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years”. (Guardian). `Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at
The Day of the Triffids
`When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.`When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth`s population blind, Bill Masen – one of the lucky few to keep his sight – finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless
Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall
In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city. Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe`s most vibrant
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road
The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker`s sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means
Your Fathers, Where are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers` brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn`t recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen
New edition – This is an anthology of 2,000 years of Scottish history. “History caught on the hoof and the wing by those who were actually there – a brilliant selection”. (Andrew Marr). A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland`s history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from
London Overground: A Day`s Walk Around the Ginger Line
Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day`s hike around the London Overground route. The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp – and inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth; to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and has brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North
