Category Archives: Travel Guides
Paddington Abroad
Original adventures of the classic bear from Darkest Peru, soon to be a major movie star! Paddington is in charge of the “EYETINNERY” and, as Mrs Bird mutters darkly, “There`s no knowing where we might end up.” But Paddington is planning some very good holiday `doings` indeed for the Browns. And he even becomes the
Paddington at Work
The irresistible Paddington Bear, who was found on Paddington station, returns in this reissued novel, with a brand new cover design. Paddington has a knack for `smelling out things`, and his sharp nose, supported by marmalade sandwiches, leads him into many adventures. Whether it`s lending a paw to a famous Russian ballet dancer, or serving
A Fortune-teller Told Me
Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. William Shawcross in the
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy`s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedy`s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But
White Mughals
William Dalrymple’s fifth book, White Mughals, does not follow his usual technique of travelling and discovering and storytelling. Rather this work is a social history, an account of the much unknown warm relations that existed between the British and Indians in the 18th and early 19th centuries.During that time one in three British men living
Patriots and Liberators
A reissue of Simon Schama`s landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation`s desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic – a country once rich enough to be called the cash till of Europe and
Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia
Wilfred Thesiger, arguably last century`s greatest explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although he originally wanted it to be a book of photographs, his diaries contained enough information to accompany the pictures with a full narrative.He is not driven by the desire to conquer an unclimbed mountain, he is not a
Girlfriend in a Coma
Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear – all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all
Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution
`In Richard Fortey`s capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic – a remarkable and fascinating book.` SIMON WINCHESTER Richard Fortey is one of Britain`s leading popular scientists. Life: An Unauthorised Biography, was short-listed for the Rhone Poulenc prize and has been reprinted five times. In all
Emma`s War – Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
From the very start, Emma McCune`s unusual beauty and glamour set her apart from the other aid workers in the Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord, a man who seemed to embody everything she was working against. Emma`s choice led her into the hell of Africa`s longest
The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania
Travelling by bus, on foot, by mule and horse, staying with Albanians in their houses and crumbling Stalinist tower blocks, Robert Carver meets Vlach shepherds and village intellectuals, ex-Communist Special Forces officers and juvenile heroin smugglers, missionaries with jeeps and light planes, and ex-prisoners of Enver Hoxha who have spent 45 years in the Albanian
Interpreter of Maladies
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his
Cameroon With Egbert
The very stuff of travel writing. Trekking through the bush on a horse called Egbert, eating repulsive local delicacies, getting lost, falling ill, heat, storms and unplanned detours. Murphy and her teenage daughter`s journey is written up with sympathy, wit and perception.
My Life and Travels
Revered as one of The Twentieth Century`s great British explorers, William Thesiger`s exploratory zeal was enduringly established in early childhood. Encompassing over fifty years of travel, Thesiger recorded in several books of writing and biography his travels in some of the remotest and until then, largely unexplored regions of the world.Presented in three distinct instalments
Daughter Of Fortune
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of `The House of the Spirits`. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky
No Bones
A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, `Milkman`. Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of
The Language of the Genes
Steve Jones`s highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.`An essential sightseer`s guide to our own genetic terrain.` Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph `Superb and stimulating…an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts
The Glass Palace
Rajkumar is only a boy, helping out on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Thus begins this novel which grasps the reach and fall of empires. The history of the twentieth century is told across three
One Thousand Chestnut Trees
An epic tale of an enigmatic land -Korea – and one woman`s search for her past. Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met, a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his teenage niece Anna`s world upside down, disrupting her cosy existence with his
Miss Garnet`s Angel
The best friend`s death and the prospect of spinsterhood in Ealing galvanizes Miss Garnet into deciding, in a moment of romantic recklessness, to relocate herself to Venice. A lifetime habit of commonsense and emotional independence relaxes among the watery rhythms of Venice, as she abandons the guide bought at Stanfords to make her own mistakes
