Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Girl Who Couldn`t Read
A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher New England, The 1890s When a young doctor begins work at an isolated mental asylum, he is expected to fall in with the shocking regime for treating the patients. He is soon intrigued by one
Tender :V2 – A Cook`s Guide to the Fruit Garden
With over 300 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II — A cook`s guide to the fruit garden is the definitive guide to cooking with fruit from the presenter of BBC One`s Simple Cooking. `When I dug up my lawn to grow my own vegetables and herbs I planted
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
Alexander Maitland’s Wilfred Thesiger in Africa is a unique hardback collection of essays and personal photographs of the explorer on what was known in his time as the ‘Dark Continent’. The book is a worthy testament to an exceptional life – and as an authorised biography it is also the last cry of Thesiger himself,
Croc Attack
A darkly comic novel about the bizarre realities of life in Israel today. `Why is everyone so paranoid in this country? Can`t dark guys get on buses with suit bags any more?` Eitan Enoch – `Croc` to his friends – is taking his usual bus to work in Tel Aviv one morning when a fellow
Chris Hoy: The Autobiography
The Autobiography of Sir Chris Hoy, Britain’s most successful ever Olympian, updated in this 2012 edition to include the Olympic Games in London and the moment which capped the cyclist’s extraordinary career ‘“ two more gold medals to bring his total to six.Chris Hoy relives his journey to these achievements and the challenges he overcame
Catching the Sun
Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim
Plague Child
The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. September 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and
GCHQ
A gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ). GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the war, it commanded more staff than MI5 and MI6 combined and
The Knot Pb
From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted `The Book of Fires`, an extraordinary tale of love and science. When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of fruit trees and flower beds, with a
Black Mamba Boy
Longlisted for the Orange Prize and winner of the Betty Trask Award. For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden, Yemen, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
William Kamkwamba’s ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” begins when Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
The second collection of stories from Yiyun Li, author of the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. The stories in this collection, like the stories in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century,
The Hungry Ghosts
A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui`s `Hungry Ghost` clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a
Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook
TV chef, dragon slayer and bestselling author Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot`n`spicy Caribbean cookbook. After winning over the business minds of The Dragon`s Den with little more than a song and a smile, entrepreneur Levi Roots has since sold more than one million bottles of his delicious Reggae Reggae Sauce
The Water Children
Four lives. Four defining moments which will bring them together. Owen Abingdon is haunted by nightmares of the Merfolk. He believes they have stolen his little sister who vanished while he was meant to be minding her on the beach, but he was only a child himself. Is it fair for his mother to blame
Just A Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes
After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears, chased by a naked man with a gun and stranded with severe frostbite, Rosie`s breathtaking 20,000-mile solo journey is as
The Bicycle Book
A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century`s great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote, adventure and lycra-clad pedalling is the perfect read for two-wheelers of all kinds. Two wheels. A frame. Two pedals. What could be simpler than a bicycle? And
The Thing Around Your Neck
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun” and ‘Purple Hibiscus”, comes twelve stories in which she turns her eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.In ‘A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor
Brindisa: The True Food of Spain
A major book on classic Spanish ingredients and home cooking. Brindisa, the renowned Spanish fine food import company, has become a byword for excellent Spanish food. `The Brindisa Spanish Cook Book` is the ultimate in contemporary Spanish cooking, including classic regional recipes, tapas dishes and information about the very best ingredients and food producers. Ranging
India: A History
India: A History by John Keay, relates thousands of years of events which took place in the land known as current day India. The country has a history longer than many other existing cultures on earth, but most historical work on India concentrates on the period after the arrival of Europeans, with predictable biases, distortions
