Category Archives: Travel Guides
What Money Can`t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
“What Money Can`t Buy” is the Top Ten “Sunday Times” Bestseller from `the superstar philosopher`, Michael Sandel. Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? In recent decades, market values
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective`s notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him.Though Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most bizarre and extraordinary cases – the disappearance of the race horse Silver
Americana
David Bell embodies the American dream. He`s twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America`s screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David`s dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and
The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions is the classic story of an English man – Ashton Pelham-Martyn – brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess; of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West.This
Shadow of the Moon
M.M. Kaye, author of “The Far Pavilions”, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. “Shadow of the Moon” is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector,
A History of Venice
Renowned historian, and author of “A Short History of Byzantium”, John Julius Norwich`s classic history of Venice “A History of Venice” tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world`s busiest and most powerful
A Short History of Byzantium
In 330 AD, the first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great, moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. This concise book, an abridged version of the author`s acclaimed three-volume history, uses character sketches and vivid descriptions bring history to life. A real-life epic of love and war, accessible to anyone – Independent
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
`Inspirational` Buzz Aldrin When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang – and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in one of many worlds? What`s more, how can we prove any of this? This book is all about how we – any of us
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, as I Walked out One Midsummer Morning, a Moment of War
This is a beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee`s celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. `I was set down from the carrier`s cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.`
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
The author of `Cider with Rosie` brings us an autobiographical tale that takes him away from home to new unfamiliar places.”The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep`s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the
A Moment of War
“In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France – two days on foot through the snow.”Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain`s civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a
The Sign of Four
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later
An Ice Cream War
“An Ice-cream War” is William Boyd`s hilarious bestselling novel of love and battle. `We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!` British soldier, East Africa, October 1914. As millions are slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign is being waged in East Africa – a war they continued after the Armistice
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
Nick Lloyd`s Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal
Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
`When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth`. In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide readers with the thrill of the chase.
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster`s delightfully satiric comedy of manners “A Room with a View” is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. `You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you…` Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte,
A History Of The World In 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor`s “A History of the World in 100 Objects” takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, “A History of the World in 100 Objects” begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady`s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he`ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or
Wide Sargasso Sea
`There is no looking glass here and I don`t know what I am like now… Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?`If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman.
Austerlitz
“Austerlitz” is W. G. Sebald`s classic novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as
