Category Archives: Travel Guides
A Long Way From Douala
On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when, at a pit stop, Simon goes wandering in search of grilled caterpillars. At the police station
In the Company of Men: The Ebola Tales
Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer`s potions nor the medical team`s treatments could cure. Compounding the family`s
Things Are Against Us
“The worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers…” `Things Are Aginst Us` is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann. It is everything you might expect from such a
Ducks, Newburyport – Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker PrizeLatticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of `happy couples`, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and
Bird`s Eye London
A showcase of stunning aerial photography by Paul Campbell, revealing new perspectives of London and its numerous famous landmarks. More than 150 single and double-page images of the city are published here for the first time, each revealing the full extent of the ever-changing capital and what it has to explore. A wonderful reference book
Art 500 Bar Globe
THIS ITEM IS ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE – WE DO NOT KEEP STOCK IN OUR STORESIf you`re looking for a lavish addition to your home environment, the Cortes is the perfect purchase. With only a limited amount made each year, this stunning bar globe is ideal for someone looking to make a statement. Featuring a striking
Versus Avio Globe
THIS ITEM IS ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE – WE DO NOT KEEP STOCK IN OUR STORESThe Versus Floor Globe with 60cm Blue/Grey Ocean Globe Ball captures the essence of Italian style and design and is the perfect globe to make a statement in any contemporary room. The map, updated by the team of cartographers at Zoffoli
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China`s Surveillance State
China today. Tomorrow, the world?In China`s shiny new `Smart Cities`, citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an orange without the government knowing about it, and tweeting satirically about the Glorious Leader`s dumpling-like features can land you in jail.It`s often assumed that capitalism and the internet automatically bring freedom and democracy. But Strittmatter shows
Versus Warm Grey Globe
THIS ITEM IS ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE – WE DO NOT KEEP STOCK IN OUR STORESThe Versus Floor Globe with 60cm Grey Ocean Globe Ball captures the essence of Italian style and design and is the perfect globe to make a statement in any contemporary room. The map, updated by the team of cartographers at Zoffoli
London`s Architectural Walks
London`s Architectural Walks is a unique guide to the most celebrated landmark buildings in one of the world`s major cities. In thirteen easy walks it takes you on a fascinating journey through London`s diverse architectural heritage with historical background and clear maps.Some of the capital`s most beautiful parks are visited, plus palaces, theatres, museums and
Insurrecto
In 1901, Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison in Balangiga, on the island of Samar, and American soldiers created `a howling wilderness` of the surrounding countryside in retaliation, mudering thousands of the inhabitants of Balangiga. In the 1970s, the American filmmaker Ludo Brasi went missing in Samar while shooting a movie, `The Unintended`, inspired by
Winterkill
THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES`Jonasson is an automatic must-read for me … possibly the best Scandi writer working today` Lee Child`The best crime writer in the world today … truly a master of his genre` The Times`The engaging Ari Thor returns in this darkly claustrophobic tale. Perfect mid-winter reading`
Hurricane Season – Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait
Axiomatic
How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past – ours, our family`s, our culture`s – wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin`s `Axiomatic` tells true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother`s quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him
Dark Satellites
International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with `Dark Satellites`, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany. A train driver`s life is upended when he hits a laughing man on the tracks on his night shift; a lonely train cleaner makes friends with a hairdresser in the train station bar; and a
Box Hill
On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker taking a nap under a tree. Ray immediately takes control of the situation, and Colin moves in with him that night. A sizzling, sometimes shocking and strangely tragic
Grove
An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. She recalls her travels in 1970s Italy, which she
The Velvet Fox (Clockwork Crow Book 2)
After rescuing Tomas from enchantment, orphan Seren Rhys is enjoying her first summer at Plas-y-Fran. But as autumn arrives, it brings with it a mysterious new governess who seems intent on drawing Tomas away from Seren and his family. Dangerous figures from a bewitched toy carousel stalk the house and, fearing the worst, Seren calls
The Disoriented
Having fled his homeland 25 years ago for France, Adam returns to the East for the first time to see a dying friend. Among the milk-white mountains of his homeland, the past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life – and some now have blood on their
