Category Archives: Travel Guides
Jamaica Collins Road Map
Detailed, up-to-date, full colour road map of the whole of Jamaica from the countries national mapping agency. Includes tourist sites, points of interest and maps of major towns and resort areas. A detailed map at 1:250,000 of Jamaica perfect for touring the country, planning vacation or finding your way around. The detailed map includes the
Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a debut from a uniquely talented author.Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents’ bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favourite
Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. The curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a series from a uniquely talented author.Tilly Pages is a bookwanderer; she can travel inside books, and even talk to the characters she meets there. But Tilly’s powers are put to the test when fairytales start leaking book magic and causing havoc… On a
Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales (Pages & Co., Book 2)
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. The curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a series from a uniquely talented author.Tilly Pages is a bookwanderer; she can travel inside books, and even talk to the characters she meets there. But Tilly’s powers are put to the test when fairytales start leaking book magic and causing havoc . .
The Reservoir Tapes
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet
I-Spy for Grown-Ups: I-Spy Pets: When Human Friendship Is Not Enough
From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it`s like the `I spy with my little eye` game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about `something beginning with`, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to
The Call of the Road: The History of Cycle Road Racing
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos.Since the first road race in May 1869, revealed here for the very first time, cycle road racing has been dominated by iconic cyclists who redefined endurance and fortitude. The battles facing these cyclists are not fought over just one race, but an annual
English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues, coastlines and sporting arenas, Ben Fogle takes
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and Significant
We live in a world that prizes the fast over the slow, the new over the familiar and work over rest. Birds Art Life Death is Kyo Maclear`s beautiful journey to stake out a sense of meaning amid the crushing rush. One winter Kyo Maclear felt unmoored. Her father had recently fallen ill and she
Scotland Collins Pocket Map
Handy little full colour map of Scotland. Excellent value and very detailed for its size. Double-sided folded map with the Central Belt, southern Scotland and northern England on one side and northern Scotland including Orkney and Shetland on the reverse. FEATURES:* Clear mapping at a scale of 8.7 miles to 1 inch.* National Tourist Routes
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian`s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE `This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit` Adam Nicolson Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and
The Black Ridge: A Journey Amongst Skye`s Cuillin Ridge
Peaks and pinnacles, jagged crests and fantastic outlines; a wilderness of weird shapes, dark, solemn and awful. Sunshine occasionally illuminates their rugged crests… but the darkness of eternal night dwells in their gorges.C.R. Weld The iconic ridge of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye is the UK`s most challenging mountain range. Over 11
Four Mums in a Boat
The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way, proving it`s never too late to go on a life-changing adventure, experience the beauty and power of the elements, push the very limits of your abilities and rediscover who you
The Peregrine
Reissue of J. A. Baker`s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.J. A. Baker`s extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
`A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement` Charles Foster Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In `The Hidden Life of Trees` Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARDWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence – street cricket, barbecues, painting windows… A young man is in love with a neighbour who does
Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time.Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of `Columba` – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
`THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR` Sunday Times `You will not read a more important book about America this year` Economist `The memoir gripping America…Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America` Sunday Times `Hillbilly Elegy` is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of
I-Spy for Grown-Ups: I-Spy the UK: While It Lasts
From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it`s like the `I spy with my little eye` game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about `something beginning with`, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to
I-Spy for Grown-Ups: I-Spy Signs and Instructions: You Must Obey
From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it`s like the `I spy with my little eye` game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about `something beginning with`, there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to
