Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Eye in the Door (WWI Regeneration Trilogy, part 2)
The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker`s classic Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men – pacifists, objectors, homosexuals – conflict with his duties as a soldier,
The Ghost Road (WWI Regeneration Trilogy, part 3)
The Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker`s Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care – particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with
Dead Aid – Why Aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
Dambisa Moyo`s excoriating and controversial “Dead Aid” reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West`s eyes, to a childlike state of beggary.Dead Aid suggests another way; using evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of `Girl, Woman, Other`
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of `Girl, Woman, Other`Longlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize 2009Finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award 2010″A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think `The Handmaid`s Tale` meets `Noughts and Crosses` with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of
The English and Their History
In `The English and their History`, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric `dreamtime` through to the present day. If a nation is a
The Tesseract
In less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husband`s car, and thirteen-year-old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street-kids` dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide…
A Fraction of the Whole
From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset – mostly unintentionally – an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and bad kinds), one labyrinth, first love, a handbook for criminals, a scheme to make everyone rich and
The Elephanta Suite
This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux`s characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds relief in Mumbai`s reeking slums. A young woman
Napoleon the Great
Awarded The Prix Du Jury Des Grands Prix De La Fondation Napoleon 2014 From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October
The Last Train to Zona Verde – Overland From Cape Town to Angola
In The Last Train to Zona Verde, Paul Theroux grippingly and compellingly examines the places and people he encounters as he journeys by bus from Cape Town to Luanda. From there, he plans to travel by train to the Green Zone, where African traditions and values, and wild animals survive. By doing so, he shows
State of Emergency
The book behind major BBC2 series “The Seventies”, Dominic Sandbrook`s “State of Emergency – The Way We Were: Britain 1970-74” is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020`You`d be crazy not to read this book` The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyFrom the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes
Darwin`s Sacred Cause
In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor. Darwin was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family`s deeply held beliefs. It
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
In `The Old Ways` Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove – roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of
Warrior of Rome II: King of Kings
“Warrior of Rome II: King of Kings” is the second in Harry Sidebottom`s vivid five-part series. AD256 – the spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervour have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is alive with the machinations of dangerous and powerful men. All the
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017`A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force` Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard`The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age … The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but
Holy Land, Unholy War
Updated in 2006, “Holy Land, Unholy War” disentangles myths and realities and gives a brilliantly clear and thoughtful picture of an unhappy place.There are few more compelling issues in the world today than the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. The land, desperately crowded and with few resources, has been a focus for so many years
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
“I Never Knew There Was a Word For It” gathers all three of Adam Jacot de Boinod`s acclaimed books about language (The Wonder of Whiffling, The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo) into one highly entertaining, keenly priced compendium.From `shotclog` a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks
The Corfu Trilogy: Three Classic Tales of Childhood on an Island Paradise
The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved
And The Land Lay Still
“And the Land Lay Still” is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson. “And the Land Lay Still” is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson`s breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to
