Category Archives: Travel Guides
Autumn (Seasons Quartet 1)
“I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your own way, you will experience things for yourself and
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2)
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, `Winter` is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard`s unborn daughter”It is strange that you exist, but you don’t know anything about what the world looks like. It’s strange that there is a first time to see the
The Morning Star: The New Novel From the Author of `My Struggle`
The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of `My Struggle`, “the literary sensation of the decade” Sunday TimesOne long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is
Don McCullin (Reissue)
The updated retrospective published for McCullin`s 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction – the definitive edition. McCullin`s reputation has long been established as one of the greatest photographers of conflict in the last century. In the fourteen years since the first publication of the book, McCullin has shed the role
Six Facets Of Light
`She`s a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.` Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the YearGoethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both confessed they didn`t. On the essential nature of light, and how it operates, the scientific jury is still out. There is still time, therefore,
Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household
Behind the Throne is a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to
Flights – Winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize`Flights`, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk`s most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.From the
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan
“The next Bill Bryson” (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries – Japan, South Korea and China – in this lively, absorbing travelogue”Three tigers cannot share the same mountain” – Chinese proverb China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? Europe
You Wouldn`t Want to be in the Great Fire of London
As if the plague wasn`t bad enough, here comes the fiery antidote! As famous diary-keeper Samuel Pepys, you`ll witness four days and four nights of fire and live to tell the tale. Find out how people lived in the London of 1666, how they coped in the aftermath and all importantly, whodunnit! – or at
The Starless Sea
The magical new novel from the bestselling author of `The Night Circus`.Are you lost or are you exploring?When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the ‘Father of China’, Sun Yat-sen, and
Scenes from a Childhood
SCENES FROM A CHILDHOOD is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway`s most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination.
Vivian
With VIVIAN, her second novel to be published in English, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique body of work only reached the public by chance. On the surface, Vivian Maier lived a quiet life, working as a nanny for bourgeois families in Chicago and New
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith `Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead`, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive,
Limbo
In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, LIMBO is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded, and trapped. Fusing family memoir with a meditation on creative block, depression, solitude, class, place and the intractable politics of our present moment, Dan Fox draws upon his experiences as a writer to consider
Surrender
Blending personal memoir with reportage, `Surrender` is a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West and the scavenger, rewilder and ecosexual communities, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana. In the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, Joanna Pocock, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, explores the changing
My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame
`My Favourite London Devils` is a gazetteer of influences and enthusiasms. A charge sheet. And a fragmented autobiography laid out through a series of portraits as picaresque as John Aubrey`s `Brief Lives`.Sinclair has assembled an accidental novel in the form of a dictionary of unreliable memories, passionate critiques and interviews with the London writers he
Counternarratives
Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives` stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. `An Outtake` chronicles an escaped slave`s take on liberty and the American Revolution; `The Strange
Bricks and Mortar
BRICKS AND MORTAR is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall
