Category Archives: Travel Guides
We Need New Names
`To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants to
The Marches
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017`This is travel writing at its best.` Katherine Norbury, Observer An Observer Book of the YearHis father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia. Now they have chosen to do their final walk together along `the Marches` – the frontier
The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
`On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.` Herein lie the problems: a stolen jewel, the inexplicable death of a young woman, the disappearance of one of the most remarkable racehorses in England, a missing butler, the curious symbols of dancing men, a broken
Reflections
This is updated and edited with a new introduction by Judith Adamson. Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene`s novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. To know war on any continent, read
Fifty Shades Freed
When Anastasia Steele first met Christian Grey they embarked on a passionate affair that changed both of their lives forever. Just when it seems that they have overcome every obstacle, fate turns Ana’s darkest fears into reality.
So, Anyway…
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter`s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable
Hannibal: Clouds of War
As Rome`s war with Carthage continues, two friends – now on opposing sides – confront each other in one of the most brutal sieges of all time. A new Hannibal novel by the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Legion series. 213 BC. Syracuse. Under the merciless Sicilian sun, a city is at war.
A Farewell to Arms
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield –
Haunts of the Black Masseur
“Haunts of the Black Masseur” is a dazzling introduction to the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping into the surf at Shelley`s beach funeral, Hart Crane, swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller and many more. In lively prose bursting with anecdote, Charles Sprawson leads us into a watery world populated
Storms of Silence
From an avalanche that wiped out his base camp to an encounter with a band of Khampas fleeing the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Joe simpson draws upon his own experiences to write this moving and far reaching book. / The book`s major theme is the nature of aggression. A skinhead in a Sheffield bar sets
Thrilling Cities
On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas …one suitcase …and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world…In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of “James Bond”, was commissioned by the “Sunday Times” to explore fourteen of the world`s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller
Plan D
October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government`s only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR`s chairman is found murdered – and all the clues suggest that
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
Described by Christopher Marlowe as the `She-Wolf of France`, Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered husband. But how did Isabella aquire this reputation? Born in 1292 she married Edward II
Once were Warriors
Alan Duff`s groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New Zealand and now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maoaris in New Zealand society. It is a raw and powerful story in which everyone ia
Heartbreak Hotel
From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this time set in a run-down B&B in Wales. When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. In possession of
Nothing but Grass
In the summer of 1875, two travellers walk south across the Lincolnshire Wolds to a village riven with dark secrets. When Norman Tanner kills his workmate on a cold February morning a century later, he thinks he`s got away with murder. But Norman doesn`t know about the workmate`s girlfriend, or the child that will come
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans. As Steinbeck said to a friend: `I must see how the country looks and smells and sounds.` The trip became Travels With Charley,
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare`s Globe
Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before. “Extraordinarily exhilarating …like no other Shakespeare criticism you have ever read”. (Margaret Drabble). “A tour de force by any standards”. (David Crystal). “Revelatory”. (James Shapiro). “Brilliantly original”. (Michael Pye). From the sixteenth-century Baltic to
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
This is the book behind the box office hit romcom starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton and Tom Wilkinson – for fans of Quartet and Song for Marion. Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new
Fifty Shades Darker
The second title in the popular Fifty Shades trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker continues the story of Ana and Grey. Ending the relationship, Anastasia starts a new career in a publishing house in Seattle. However Christian still dominates her every thought and they rekindle their affair, soon Ana must make an important decision.
