Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
Alone On A Wide Wide Sea
How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship, all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye…That is all I remember of England. When six-year-old orphan
What does China think?
An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself — from democracy to the idea of a `peaceful rise`. It challenges all of our assumptions about China. We know everything
Londonstani
`ondonstani, Gautam Malkani`s electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents` generation. Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of
Bird Cloud: A Memoir Of Place
Annie Proulx, one of America`s finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. `Bird Cloud` is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of
Barkskins
From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world`s forests.In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a
Complete Guide To British Mushrooms and Toadstools
Collins Complete Guide to British Muchrooms and Toadstools allows everyone to identify mushrooms found in Britain and Ireland. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout, featuring the species you are most likely to see. By only covering Britain and Ireland, fewer species are included than in many broader European guides, making it quicker and
The Corrections
From the author of `Freedom`, a panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. The Corrections is now seen by many as one of the greatest American novels of the last decade. The Lamberts – Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn Iggulden’s Dangerous Book for Boys is destined to become a publishing classic. Writing for Harper Collins in his first non-fiction work, Iggulden writes with the verve and passion that his readers have come to expect. This book has been written with his brother as a celebration of the long summers of their youth and
A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My unlikely adventure in creating an organic farm in Sri Lanka
We’ll all, from time to time, wish we could get out of the rat race and have a go at living Tom and Barbara’s Good Life – self-sustained and environmentally-friendly. For most of us, that’s as far as the fantasy goes, but for BBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers such a thought was only the
Americans In Paris
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city`s four-year occupation. French troops withdrew in order to
Mosquito
A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice. When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife`s death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush landscape of his increasingly war-torn country. But as he sinks into life
Humble Pie
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story’ฆ`Humble Pie` tells the full story of how he became the world’s most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother’s heroin addiction and his failed first career as a footballer: all of
By Hook or by Crook – A Journey in Search of English
A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language. David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of `latter day Dr Johnson`, a populist linguist who has
Leviathan or, The Whale
In Leviathan, or The Whale, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare explores his own passion for whales and charts the troubled history of their relationship with man. He seeks to discover, on his own journey from the north of England to Cape Cod – and finally into the middle of the Atlantic – exactly why these
The Pike: Gabriele D`Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
The story of Gabriele d`Annunzio, poet, WWI daredevil and fascist; the book was the winner of two leading literary awards: the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction plus the 2013 Costa Award for Biography.In September 1919 Gabriele d`Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume, now Rijeka in
Eating Up In Italy
In an epic scooter trip from the South to the North of Italy, award-winning food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy, culinary culture and tumultuous history of a country.Taking as his starting point Melito Di Porto Salvo, the southernmost town on mainland Italy, Fort eats, drinks, and talks his way through Calabria, rich in
Tiger Who Came To Tea
This classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary tea-time guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published over 30 years ago. Now a new generation will enjoy this beautiful reformatted edition! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be?
