Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
The Shed That Fed a Million Children: The Mary`s Meals Story
Mary`s Meals is born from acts of love. If you put all those many acts of sacrifice together it creates a beautiful thing. Mary`s Meals tells the inspirational and compelling story of how a cripplingly shy fish farmer from Argyll, Scotland, became the international CEO of a global charity that now feeds over 800,000 children
A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III
From the one of our best-loved food writers and the presenter of BBC One`s Eating Together, A Year of Good Eating is a completely fresh take on seasonal cooking. The third instalment of Nigel Slater`s classic Kitchen Diaries series, A Year of Good Eating explores the balance and pleasure in eating well throughout the year.
Moonglow
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the Year * An NPR Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the Year `Probably Chabon`s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will
Love Monster and the Last Chocolate
A delicious new story about Love Monster, the only monster in Cutesville, from award-winning picture book talent Rachel Bright. When Love Monster finds a mystery box of chocolates at his door, he can`t believe his luck. But he`s soon thrown into a whirlwind of turmoil. Should he keep the chocolates for himself? Or risk the
Planisphere: Latitude 50 N – for Use in the UK and Ireland, Northern Europe and Canada
A star finder that allows visible stars to be identified for any date and time for locations in the Northern Hemisphere. Compiled by astronomical experts, Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion and approved by the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Easy-to-use practical tool to help any astronomers identify the constellations and stars every day of
Epitaph for the Ash: In Search of Recovery and Renewal
The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces. But tragically ash dieback, a disease from mainland Europe, now poses a serious threat to the trees` survival. And their grave prognosis took on a personal resonance when, while writing this
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017Shortlisted for the Hellenic Prize 2017Winner of Prix Mediterranee 2018From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son`s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer`s epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel`s course on
Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre: Curtain Up
A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world`s most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Published in celebration of Agatha Christie`s 125th birthday, Curtain Up! is an essential purchase for Agatha Christie fans worldwide. Everyone knows that The Mousetrap is the world`s longest-running play,
The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells`. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time
Life of a Chalkstream
This delightful book records a year in the life of an essentially English waterscape, one that is home to a vast array of wildlife and natural habitat of the keen angler – the chalkstream. Simon Cooper grew up in Hampshire, where he first fell in love with fly fishing. Only after moving away did he
Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes
Refresh your life with a tiny little adventure that`s close to home and easy on your pocket. Inspiration is abundant in this brilliant and beautifully-illustrated guide. What exactly is an adventure? Something that`s new and exhilarating. Something that launches you from your comfort zone into a different place altogether. An adventure changes you and how
The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Henry Stuart`s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years` War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous. NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2 DOCUMENTARY The Best King We Never Had By 1610,
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK`s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. When Kathleen Kennedy sailed to England after her father had been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, her wit, aloofness and sexual charisma at once became the source
End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war …will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity`s future rather than its past? World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast population growth endangers the world`s food supplies? Or our
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery – intricate, complex and fascinating` The Observer `A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves` The Economist#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science. Before they even had the right to vote, a
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after
War Cry
`That time is upon us. I can feel it coming. That evil barbarian will not be satisfied until he has engulfed the whole world in war and death. I fear for us all.`In a triumphant return to his much-loved Courtney series, Wilbur Smith introduces us to the bravest new member of the famed family, Saffron
The Unamericans
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENGLISH PEN DEBUT FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD `The UnAmericans` is a debut story collection of great poise A former dissident from Communist-era Prague fears his daughter`s new play will cast him in an unflattering light. A divorced dry cleaner tries to move on, bemused by his daughter`s reawakened
