Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Headmasters Wager Pb
From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon, a patriot, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage. He is also a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible
Stuck
Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck in a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe
Living, eating and cooking in south-west France
While walking in South-west France, cook and journalist Orlando Murrin dreamed up the adventure of a lifetime: why not wave goodbye to the rat race and come to live in this rural paradise, where the only traffic is the boulangerie van delivering baguettes? His book tells the story of how he set up a boutique
Complete British Birds
A complete photoguide to all the birds of Britain from the best nature publisher in the UK Collins Complete Guide to British Birds makes bird identification easier than ever before. It is the most complete photographic guide to British birds ever published and the only one to be designed to give everything that you need
The New English Table
Building upon the ever-more-popular principles of The New English Kitchen and The Savvy Shopper, Rose Prince`s new book celebrates good British food and shows how to make the most of ingredients and leftovers. Hot chestnut and honey soup, whipped potatoes with Lancashire cheese, melted ale and cheddar to eat with bread, baked haddock soup, saffron
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About Food is Wrong
Now with a new epilogue, the UK`s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture. Buying `locally` does no good. Farmers` markets are merely a lifestyle choice. And `organic` is little more than a marketing label, way past its sell by date. This may be a little hard to
Sissinghurst
A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson`s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last
It`s Our Turn To Eat – The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong`s Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat, carrying a small mountain of luggage, it was clear something had gone very
Nature in Towns and Cities
The latest in the New Naturalist series documents the parks and green spaces unique to Britain`s cities – and the wildlife that has flourished in these habitats. Not since Richard Fitter`s landmark publication in 1945, `London`s Natural History` – volume 3 in the New Naturalist series – has there been a comprehensive guide to urban
The Yacoubian Building
Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, Alaa Al Aswany`s The Yacoubian Building is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -once grand, now dilapidated- stands on one of Cairo`s main boulevards. Taha, the doorman`s son,
Selling Your Father`s Bones
Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008. Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, `Selling Your Father`s Bones` is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA. In the summer of 1877, around seven hundred members
A Long Way Gone – Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone tells how, at the age of 12 years old, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in his home country of Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. At 13, he was picked up by the government army, and a gentle-hearted boy was forced to kill in the battles. At
Crow Stone:The Darker The Past,The Deeper The Secrets
A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath. Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath — a place as riddled with memories she`d rather forget as it is
India with Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar, creator and writer of The Kumars at No.42 and Goodness Gracious Me, embarks on an epic and uniquely personal journey through the heart of India for his namesake BBC2 series “India with Sanjeev Bhaskar”, unveiling a country of contradictions and surprises, where ancient and modern collide.Now we follow Sanjeev’s adventures through the country
Food for Free – Collins
A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes. First published in 1972, this updated edition of Richard Mabey`s cult bestseller has been revised to reflect the ever-increasing eco-awareness and popular interest in finding different, and more natural, sources of food.
Wildlife Of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
The Wildlife of Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda is the perfect companion for the safari enthusiast. This complete traveller’s guide to the wildlife of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda features 475 species of bird, mammal, snake, lizard, insect and tree. A must-have for all those considering a trip to the game reserves of this highly popular region.
Tender :V1 – A Cook & His Vegetable Patch
With over 400 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook`s garden, Tender: Volume I — A cook and his vegetable patch, is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from the presenter of BBC One`s Simple Cooking. `I would like to think I know more now than I did before I picked up
Complete British Wildlife
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for nature enthusiasts. Collins Complete Guide to British Wildlife allows everyone to identify the wildlife found in Britain and Ireland. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout, featuring the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.` Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, into broadsides
Complete British Wild Flowers
A complete photoguide to all the wild flowers of Britain to accompany the bestselling Complete British WIldlife. With over 1,000 main entries covering wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes Collins Complete Guide to British Wild Flowers is a definitive photographic reference guide for flower enthusiasts. Helpful information about habitats of wild flowers and
