Category Archives: Travel Guides
Of Things Gone Astray
Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight …On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place
The Homing Instinct: The Story and Science of Migration
The story and science of how animals find their way home. Home is the place we long for most, when we feel we have travelled too far, for too long. Since boyhood, acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year to a beloved patch of woods in his native western Maine. But while
The Last Grain Race
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last `grain race` of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent – set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 3: Collection 3
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2014 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories: * Earth and Space * Our Solar System * Deep Space * Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year And can also be
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. It has become influential in the western world for its insight into the process of death and dying. Translated by the Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and with a forward by the Dalai Lama.
The Sinking Admiral
The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club`s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. `The Admiral` is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. `The
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
A brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of `Wolf Hall` and `Bring Up the Bodies`. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain`s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth
No Man`s Land
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine`s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world. Adam Raine is a boy cursed
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world`s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff
Solomon Creed Hb
HIS PAST IS UNKNOWN. HIS FUTURE UNWRITTEN. WHO IS SOLOMON CREED? The first in an electrifying new thriller series from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne. Perfect for fans of Lee Child, and I AM PILGRIM, by Terry Hayes. A plane crashes in the Arizona desert. One lone figure emerges alive from the wreckage. He
The English Spy
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen
Flesh and Blood
No.1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta-a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself. It`s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta`s birthday, and while she`s enjoying a leisurely morning, a man is shot dead five minutes from
The Ice
An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees. `A memorable eco-thriller. This is a world of arms dealers, heroic arctic adventurers and power crazed captains of industry. And that`s just the ladies` The Times A frozen corpse emerges from a melting glacier and after three years
The Saboteur: True Adventures Of The Gentleman Commando Who Took On The Nazis
In the tradition of `Agent Zigzag` comes a breathtaking biography of WWII`s `Scarlet Pimpernel` as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant When the Nazis invaded France during the Second
Short Walks in the Peak District
The Peak District, with its the gentle limestone White Peak and the wilder more dramatic gritstone Dark Peak, is a superb walking area. This can be explored with these 20 walks, all are 5 miles or under in length and can easily be completed in less that 3 hours. This guide, produced in co-operation with
A Brief History of the Hobbit
This brand new, shorter edition of the critically acclaimed work includes J.R.R. Tolkien`s complete draft manuscript of `The Hobbit`, together with notes about its history, and is perfect for readers of all ages wishing to know more about how he came to write his beloved masterpiece. J.R.R. Tolkien`s The Hobbit is a tale that “grew
A People Betrayed: A History of 20th Century Spain
From the foremost historian of modern Spain comes the bloody, much misunderstood story of how, from 1874 to the present day the Spanish people were devastatingly betrayed by their political class, military and Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during
Forever Geek (Geek Girl, Book 6)
My name is Harriet Manners and I`ll be a geek forever… The FINAL book in the bestselling, award-winning GEEK GIRL series is here! Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. Modelling isn`t a sure-fire route to popularity. Neither is making endless lists.The people you love don`t expect you to transform into someone else.Statistically you
The Book of Lost and Found
In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. It`s when life started in earnest HERTFORDSHIRE, 1928 The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins a love story that finds its feet by
