Category Archives: Travel Guides
Butcher`s Crossing
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher`s Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just
Remembering Babylon
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focusing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice. When you descended towards a city, and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak.
Thirst
This is from the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma. It is the winner of the Prix Femina Etranger. London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people
The Mars Room
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers – a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women`s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker. Inside awaits a world where women
Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews` expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval
Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World: Shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize”Hugely ambitious and beautifully written…destined to become a modern classic” Bee WilsonHow we search for, make and consume food has defined human history. It transforms our bodies and homes, our politics and our trade, our landscapes and our climate. But by forgetting our culinary heritage and relying on cheap, intensively
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini
Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents – including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges – were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far,
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and
Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45
Snow and Steel will be a huge reassessment of Hitler`s last great throw of the dice: `The Battle of the Bulge`, the battle for the Ardennes 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. This is an utterly fascinating five weeks when for a time it looked like Hitler had outflanked the allied armies pushing toward
Persuasion
In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour, insight and tenderness.Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* *Every year in the UK 18 million tonnes of food end up in landfill.*Why is this the case and what can we do about it?The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to
Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain`s Village Utopias
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of `model` villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A life-long fascination was born. From Scotland`s New Lanark Mills to the Arts and Crafts cottages of Port Sunlight, Yallop visits these utopian experiments to explore
Breakfast with the Borgias
`Hell is other people.` This is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it`s dark, and very foggy. Inside there`s no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic
In the Wolf`s Mouth
From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze In the Wolf`s Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer and Ray Marfione, a
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De` Medici
“A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence.” (Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year). 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a “Half-negro” maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its
The Hungry Empire: How Britain`s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
“A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire” Sunday TimesWinner of the Guild of Food Writers Book Award 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader’ฆ Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit’ฆ Diamond prospectors in
Boundless: Adventures in the Northwest Passage
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along this arctic passage, Winter witnesses the new mathematics of the melting North – where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding
