Category Archives: Travel Guides
Royalty`s Strangest Tales
A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known. Packed with royal stories from 2,000 years of history, from the immortality-obsessed first Emperor of China to our very own master of tact and diplomacy, Prince Philip, this book will leave the reader fascinated, entertained and occasionally
Greenpeace Captain: Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior
In over 40 years as a senior captain for Greenpeace International, Peter Willcox has been in the vanguard of the international environmentalist movement. He has led crews into battle for the good of the planet against whale killers, nuclear testing sites and deep sea drillers. The recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Guardian,
The Wren: A Biography
From the bestselling author of The Robin: A BiographyThe wren is a paradox of a bird. On the one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They are Britain’s most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also thrive up and down Britain and Ireland:
Walking the Song
Hamish Brown has been an outdoorsman for more than sixty years. The first person to complete an uninterrupted round of Scotland`s Munros, his account of the feat in Hamish`s Mountain Walk is a classic of Scottish mountain literature. Throughout those years he has contributed articles and essays to many journals and, in this selection, he
Pantsdrunk: The Finnish Art of Drinking at Home. Alone. In Your Underwear.
Pรคntsdrunk is a refreshing take on the personal-development genre. In Finland there is a special word ‘“ `kalsarikรคnni` ‘“ to denote ‘drinking at home, alone, in your underwear’. It is no coincidence Finland consistently rates in the top five in happiness ranking. In Finland, Pรคntsdrunk is considered a path to recovery and self-empowerment to help
Downhill from Here
Approaching his middle forties, Gavin Boyter wondered what his life was all about. A Scot living in London, single and with no kids, he was living for the job and the dwindling hope of a career in film. He had been a club runner all his life, pretty good but not at the front all
Kangaroo Kisses
It`s time for…bed! Not yet! Elephant must floss, to make his teeth gloss! Then I`ll brush furry bear. Please brush your own hair! Follow one mischievous child as she delays getting ready for bed, and has some amazing wildlife encounters along the way!
Short Ride on a Fast Machine
Short Ride on A Fast Machine is a quirky and engaging caper, the story of a young cycle courier from London who goes on an improbable journey to Norway, to pick up a stuffed owl for a mysterious client. For his oddest job to date, Sam enlists the help of his friend and fellow courier
Wings!
The sky is full of birds and ALL of them are SWOOPING AND SOARING…except Penguin. “I wish I could fly!” says Penguin sadly. Owl, Parrot and the other birds try their best to help, but NOTHING seems to get their friend off the ground! How can Penguin achieve his deepest desire, and fly?
Daniel Defoe`s Railway Journey: A Surreal Odyssey Through Modern Britain
Daniel Defoe`s Railway Journeys describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track in the UK. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. He is aided and abetted by the ghost of Daniel Defoe, writer,
Migrations: Open Hearts, Open Borders
As the world refugee crisis intensified, back in 2017 two teachers of Illustration at Worcester University had the idea of contacting illustrator friends around the world, asking them to draw and send an original postcard on the theme of Migration, to form an installation at the Biennale of Illustration at Bratislava, Slovakia. The response astonished
The Mud Monster
All the African animals were afraid of the Mud Monster. They knew it was huge and they knew it was horrible. But none of them had actually seen it. Until one day…The author`s royalties will be donated in support of wildlife habitat conservation projects in Africa.
The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction
Reluctant to observe a new family tradition, a boy finds himself stranded outside a graveyard on the night before Christmas…Three farming brothers, forced to relocate to the city by poor harvests, discover an unexpected demand for their green-fingered talents…Residents of a new apartment block are woken in the early hours by the eerie sound of
The Book of Tehran
A city of stories short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city of one of the most powerful nations in the Middle East, its literary output is rarely acknowledged in the West. This unique celebration of its writing brings together ten stories exploring the tensions
The Book of Cairo
A corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all existence… A young journalist struggles over the obituary of a nightclub dancer… A man slowly loses his mind in one of the city s new desert developments… There is a saying
The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction
Tbilisi is the largest city and capital of Georgia with a population of more than 1.5 million people. We will bring ten unique short stories from this overwhelming, vibrant, capital city to English-reading audiences in the next installation of our popular Reading the City series. Founded in the 5th century, Tbilisi is located at the
The BBC National Short Story Award 2017: No.12
There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O Connor wrote, an intense awareness of human loneliness. The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them:
Thirteen Months of Sunrise
A young woman sits by her father’s deathbed, lamenting her failure to keep a promise to him’ฆA struggling writer walks every inch of the city in search of inspiration, only to find it is much closer than she imagined’ฆA girl collapses from hunger at the side of the road and is rescued by the most
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018
Hung-over and grief-stricken, a man contemplated suicide at the edge of a cliff, until he is unexpectedly distracted by the sight of a woman emerging from the water below…A group of art students protesting the demolition of a housing block decide to turn its destruction into a creative act…Waiting in her car for the rain
Protest: Stories of Resistance
Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, twenty authors have assembled to re-imagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants
