Category Archives: Travel Guides
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tells the tale of journalist Hunter S Thompson and his ‘attorney’, the Samoan, driving to Las Vegas to find the dark side of the American dream.Roaring down the desert highway from Los Angeles, they realise there’s only one way to go about such a perilous task: getting very, very
Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
The inspiration behind `Life of Pi` director Ang Lee`s `Brokeback Mountain` is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales. `Brokeback Mountain` is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist
Mushrooms & Toadstools
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material. This is the perfect pocket guide for nature and foraging enthusiasts keen to identify the most commonly found mushrooms and toadstools in Britain and northern Europe. Authoritative text, beautiful photographs and detailed illustrations show the distinguishing features
Tree Guide – Collins
The definitive, fully-illustrated guide to the trees of Britain and non-Mediterranean Europe. This brand-new field guide to the trees of northern Europe contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced. The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, and these provide the starting point for
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s ‘Purple Hibiscus” was longlisted for both the *2004 Man Booker Prize* and the *2004 Orange Prize*; a haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer.The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili`s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates
The News From Paraguay
A rich historical novel – part love story and part tragedy – about the Irish courtesan Eliza Lynch, and how she became mistress to one of South America`s first, and most extravagant, dictators. 1854. In Paris, Francisco Solano – the future dictator of Paraguay – picks up a blue feather fallen from the hat of
The Other Queen
A dramatic novel of passion, politics and betrayal from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Mary, Queen of Scots, fights to regain her kingdom whilst under the guard of Queen Elizabeth`s trusted accomplice, Bess of Hardwick. Mary is Queen of Scotland but she has been forced to flee her land and take refuge in
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. They came from every corner of Britain and its Empire. They were the best of their
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh- A Woman in World History
From the author of `Britons`, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh — an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. Linda Colley`s new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories and global history. This is
Garden Birds
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material. This is the perfect pocket guide for keen birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts to identify the diverse range of birds that inhabit their gardens. Authoritative text and beautiful photographs show the distinguishing features of each bird, including information
Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles` success in the late Seventies. `Hotel California` is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth account of the
Freshwater Life: Britain & Northern Europe
A beautifully illustrated guide to the wide variety of species found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Britain and Europe. Covering northern Europe, including the mainly freshwater environment of the Baltic Sea, `Pocket Guide Freshwater Life` describes and illustrates over 900 species of plant and animal visible with the naked eye, from damsels and
Butterflies and Moths
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material. This is the perfect pocket guide for nature enthusiasts keen to identify the most commonly seen butterflies and moths in Britain and northern Europe. Authoritative text, beautiful photographs and detailed illustrations show the distinguishing features of each
Liberty`s Exiles
`More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty`s Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian`s most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.` Niall Ferguson Liberty`s Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Early in the afternoon of 25 November 1783, the American Revolution was finally over; the British
Food for Free
Food for Free is a mini paperback version of Richard Mabey`s bestselling guide. Small enough to easily fit in your pocket or bag, the book identifies, with illustrations, photographs and descriptions, over 100 edible plants, berries, mushrooms, seaweed and shellfish. Advice on when to gather, what to pick and how to prepare/cook is also provided
Mog in the Dark
An all-time classic Mog story refreshed with a new cover and format. Join Mog for a fantastical adventure with mousedogbird! Mog sat in the dark. Mog thought in the dark. But the dark was not where Mog wanted to be…And who else was there in the dark? One night Mog`s imagination takes her on a
An Experiment in Love
Following `A Change in Climate`, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of `Wolf Hall` is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge
Fludd
From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of `Wolf Hall`, this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhoughton is a drab, dreary town somewhere in a magical, half-real 1950s north England, a preserve of ignorance and superstition protected against the advance of reason by its impenetrable moor-fogs. Father
The Barefoot Emperor: an Ethiopian Tragedy
A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. On one of Addis Ababa`s main roundabouts today sits a huge recently installed mortar. This is a replica of `Sevastopol`, a 70-ton lump of ordnance commissioned by one of
The Chains of Heaven – An Ethiopian Romance
When Philip Marsden first went to Ethiopia in 1982, it changed the direction of his life. What he saw of its astonishing antiquity, its raw medieval Christianity, its extremes of brutality and grace produced in him a restless curiosity, and made him a writer.But Ethiopia at that time was torn apart by civil war. The
