Category Archives: Travel Guides
De Niro`s Game
“De Niro`s Game” is the stunning winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the very first novel by up-and-coming Lebanese literary star Rawi Hage, also author of “Cockroach”. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
“A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” is bestselling author Marina Lewycka`s hilarious and award winning debut novel. `Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family. In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to
City of Women
In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? It is 1943 – the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schroder is,
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize 2021An Economist and History Today Book of the Year 2020″Compelling and highly original … The Asia that we see today is the product of the `underground` which Harper describes with skill and empathy in this monumental work” Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewThe story of the hidden struggle waged by secret
In Cold Blood
In “Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences” is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews. `Dick became convinced that Perry was that
Collapse
From the author of “Guns, Germs and Steel”, Jared Diamond`s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive” is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond`s “Collapse” uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder – and what
Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles
Walking Home – Clare Balding`s unmissable new book of Great British Adventures. Clare Balding is on a mission to discover Britain and Ireland. She`s conquered over 1,500 miles of footpaths, from the Pennine Way to the South-west Coast Path. As well as blisters and a twisted ankle, she`s walked with extraordinary people – botanists, barefooted
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia
For decades, Colombia was the `narcostate`. Now it`s seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it rebuilding itself after decades of violence? Writer and journalist
Pakistan on the Brink
Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban, charts the latest developments in the dangerous trajectory of one of the world`s most strategically important, and volatile, countries – and the effects on its neighbours and us all. “An expert`s examination of the volatile region that gives the world`s policy-makers their biggest nightmare”. (Christina Lamb,
The Italians
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper`s marvellously entertaining and perceptive book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind – and often belie – the
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
This is a compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson – renowned American writer of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. `It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs`. “Fear and Loathing at Rolling
Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed
From John Bradshaw, one of the world`s leading experts on animal behaviour, and the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller, In Defence of Dogs, Cat Sense shows us the true, surprising nature of cats. Cats are the most popular pet in the world.They outnumber the dog, man`s `best friend`, by three to one. Yet today,
War Memorial: The Story of One Village`s Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003
Clive Aslet`s War Memorial: The Story of One Village`s Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003, is a powerful story of those who died in war. Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country? Where did they live – and how and why did they die? Such questions usually
Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-first-century City
In “Ground Control” Anna Minton reveals the untested – and unwanted – urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. Britain`s streets have been transformed by the construction of new property – but it`s owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D`IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving – and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so …French.
Junky
William S. Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict`s life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again.An original, first-hand account which outraged fifties America, Junky remains one of the
In The Country Of Men
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair
The Spanish Ambassador`s Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag
The Spanish Ambassador`s Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan – which hapless embassy
Midnight in Peking
Midnight in Peking by Paul French is the investigation of the brutal murder of the teenage daughter of a British, consul in colonial Peking in 1937. The police fail to find the perpetrator and as war looms the case is closed. The father of the victim, Edward Werner is left alone to uncover the truth.Seventy-five
