Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Kashmir Shawl
An epic story of wartime, family secrets and forbidden love, set against the stunning exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime…Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the exquisite heart of Kashmir
The Ancient Ship
The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People`s Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time. Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, The Ancient Ship immediately caused a sensation in China. Wei`s award-winning first novel is the story of three generations of
Death or Victory
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain`s empire in North America. Military history at its best. Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec — in 1759 France`s capital city in Canada —
A Book of Britain
In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions. Over its 600 gloriously illustrated pages, Johnny draws on his wisdom and knowledge to reveal a forgotten culture, and encourages us all to rediscover a beautiful Britain. “I always think of nightingales
Telegraph Avenue
From the bestselling author of `The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay`; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging in there, co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth
Grasshoppers and Crickets
The latest volume in the highly acclaimed New Naturalist series, this is a detailed and up-to-date account of the behavior and ecology of grasshoppers and crickets. Renowned expert in the field Ted Benton offers a comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behavior, habitat, life-cycles, and distribution of all the native British species of bush-crickets, crickets,
The Piano Teacher
Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, `The Piano Teacher` is a combination of `Tenko` meets `The Remains of the Day`. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful
The Elephant Keeper
In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a wealthy landowner, they are taken to his estate in theEnglish countryside. A stable boy, Tom Page, is given the task of caring for them. `The Elephant Keeper is Tom`s account of his life
My Kitchen – James Martin
My Kitchen is a brand new collection of James Martin`s favourite seasonal recipes. Be inspired in your kitchen all year round with more than 100 of James`s tried-and-tested favourites. Face of TV`s Saturday Kitchen, James Martin knows good British food, but when the cameras are turned off and it`s time to swap the studio kitchen
Fine The Way It Is
`Fine Just The Way It Is` marks Annie Proulx`s return to the Wyoming of `Brokeback Mountain` and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern
Freedom
Freedom” is the story of Walter and Patty Berglund, their children Jessica and Joey, and their friend Richard Katz.The book is about how we use and abuse our freedom; the beginning and ending of love; teenage and adult lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; competition amongst friends and family; betrayal of those closest; and why
Scottish Birds
An ideal pocket guide to over 180 bird species commonly found throughout Scotland Unlike many field guides, Collins Scottish Birds does not cover birds which only visit occasionally, or which occur in such small numbers and are so difficult to identify that only experienced birdwatchers can spot them. Instead, it concentrates on more common species
Ocean Devil
The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety — only to die tragically in early 1945. The author, James
Evening is the Whole Day
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan is an exuberant, magical vision of post-colonial Malaysia and a vibrant portrait of a country coming of age, as well as a strong and urgent story about caste and unfairness, centred around a family struggling to deal with its past.The dismissal of the Rajasekharan family’s servant girl
The Street Philosopher
An elegant, powerful novel, set in Victorian England, a time not so different from our own! perfect for fans of THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER and THE SHADOW OF THE WIND Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier`s man on the ground. It is a dangerous place,
The Devil`s Acre
A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher. What price to take hold of the devil`s right hand? Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. He acquires a
The Sea of Tranquility
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel `The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Netherland
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq
Home Cooking
TV chef Lorraine Pascale, author of the phenomenal bestseller Baking Made Easy, is back with her second cookery book – this time packed with simple and delicious recipes for relaxed home cooking that go far beyond baking. The queen of cookery is back with 100 scrumptious and seriously easy recipes, from cosy soups and roasts
A Year In Tibet
`A Year in Tibet` follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet. Sun Shuyun, a Chinese writer and historian, takes the reader to a tiny and isolated village in Tibet, known for its anti-Chinese stance. She and a team who were half Chinese and half Tibetan, lived and
