Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
The Dog
This book is the Winner of the 2015 PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, Jack Living`s debut story collection, The Dog, explodes the country`s cultural and social fault lines. In this riveting, richly imagined collection of stories, a wealthy factory owner – once a rural peasant
Mr Bones: Twenty Stories
Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious
Frog
`Frog` is a richly complex new novel about China`s one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer`s touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. After
What a Carve Up!
This is a brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, `What A Carve Up!` in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to
Not On the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate
In 2004 Felicity Lawrence published her ground-breaking book, `Not on the Label`, where, in a series of undercover investigations she provided a shocking account of what really goes into the food we eat. She discovered why beef waste ends up in chicken, why a single lettuce might be sprayed six times with chemicals before it
Our Kind of Traitor
In John le Carre`s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a
Landmarks
`Landmarks` is Robert Macfarlane`s joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. `Landmarks` is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
From Cnut to D-Day, the history and science of the unceasing tide is explored for the first time.Half of the world`s population lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. Yet how little most of us know about the tide – a key force on our planet that has altered the course of history and
Hot Milk
Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez – a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people
Elizabeth is Missing
Sunday Times Bestseller Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Heale. This book was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2014. It was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2014. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Awards New Writer of
Funny Girl
Make them laugh and they`re yours forever…It`s the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by Sophie Straw, a former Blackpool beauty queen turned prime-time sitcom star. Sophie is a comic genius and a bombshell to boot – she might just have it all. Behind the scenes of her smash-hit show, Sophie is falling madly
Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. `The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the
Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin
Karl Whitney`s Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of Dublin. Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney – who has been described by Gorse as `Dublin`s best psychogeographer since James Joyce` – explores the places the city`s denizens and tourists easily overlook. Whitney finds hidden places and untold stories
The Secret of Magic
In 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal. For Reggie, justice is not
