Category Archives: Travel Guides
Cakes, Bakes and Biscuits
Cakes, Bakes and Biscuits is a treasury of modern and classic recipes from the National Trust that you can create in the comfort of your own home, on a lazy Sunday or with the kids. From classic favourites like Victoria sponge and simple fruit cake to treats for children, perfect preserves and even savoury breads
Secret Gardens of the National Trust
Collected here are stunning photographs of the National Trust`s idiosyncratic gardens, accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. This book includes secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens,
The National Trust Book Of Scones
Sarah Clelland brings you 50 scone recipes from the National Trust.History is best enjoyed with a scone, as everyone who`s visited a National Trust house knows. This book brings you the best of both. Scone obsessive Sarah Clelland has gathered 50 – yes 50 – scone recipes from National Trust experts around the country. And
Houses of the National Trust
This captivating book, fully revised and updated and featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior and exterior design. This new edition is fully revised and updated, and includes entries for eight new properties including: Dyffryn, Eyam Hall, Goddards, Leith Hill
A Cottage In The Country
A collection of the most fascinating and picturesque cottages from the National Trust.We all dream of escaping to a hideaway in the country – a green and pleasant idyll of country lanes with hawthorn hedges, a garden filled with hollyhocks and rosebushes, a cosy, flagstoned interior with a fire burning in the hearth… A Cottage
Marrakech Express
Back in 1969 when Morocco`s ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem `Marrakech Express`. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and one-time glamrock fan Peter Millar uses what is now the country`s best visited tourist destination as the embarkation point for a
Granta 141: Canada
From Canada`s global cities to its Arctic Circle – from the country`s ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure – the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation`s future.Margaret Atwood, Gary Barwin, Dionne Brand, Fanny Britt, Douglas Coupland, France
The Tapas Bar Guide
Tapas have become the most important phenomenon in Spanish culinary history and this movement is unstoppable due to the high quality Spanish cuisine promoted by the most important Spanish chefs, and this has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of Spanish restaurants in the five continents. In London there is an expanding array
Granta 144: Generic Love Story
Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women wantStella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debateFernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New YorkDebra Gwartney breaks her silenceOttessa Moshfegh gets what she wantsTaraShea Nesbit revisits her lost childhoodBrittany Newell deconstructs Paris Hilton`s sex tapeLisa Wells on the process of revisiting
The History of Wine in 100 Bottles: From Bacchus to Bordeaux and Beyond
Winemaking is as old as civilization itself and wine has always been more than just a drink. For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a vast global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes. This fascinating and
Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling
Granta 146 is guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi. We`re living through hysterical times. Rage, resentment, shame, guilt and paranoia are everywhere surfacing, as is the intemperate adoration or hatred of popular but divisive public figures. Political discourse suffers when people seem to trust only what they feel and can no longer be swayed
Anna Del Conte On Pasta
Nigella Lawson described Anna Del Conte`s book Portrait of Pasta as `The book that actually changed the way the English thought about Italian cooking…and the instrumental force in leading us from the land of spag bol, macaroni cheese and tinned ravioli`. Now Anna Del Conte has fully updated and revised that book, introducing many new
A Drinker`s Guide to Cardiff
Forget those tedious pub guides detailing what real ales are on tap or whether the food`s any good. With first-hand reports from 20 of the city`s boozers, A Drinker`s Guide to Cardiff captures what going to the pub is really all about: talking rubbish with your mates, consuming slightly more fizzy lager than is strictly
Insufficiently Welsh
In this informal guide to Wales, Griff Rhys Jones rediscovers “the land of his aunties”. Born in Cardiff but raised in Essex, Griff is returning home on a mission to explore the real Wales: the one beyond the tourist trail that exists in the deep beautiful countryside, full of hidden treasures and eccentric characters that
Au Reservoir: A New Mapp and Lucia Novel
The final part of Guy Fraser-Sampson`s trilogy of sequels to E.F. Benson`s hugely popular Mapp and Lucia series, Au Reservoir finds the residents of Tilling on fine form. The War has wrought great changes, and Lucia struggles to come to terms with rationing, exchange controls and, worst of all, a Labour Government. While Georgie and
The Buenvino Cookbook: Recipes from Our Farmhouse in Spain
For over thirty years, Jeannie and Sam Chesterton have lived high in the hills of Spain`s western Andalusia at Finca Buenvino, their welcoming pink farmhouse, which they have run as a guesthouse – achieving international acclaim for their cooking and also their cookery courses. On their 100-acre estate the Chestertons grow their own organic vegetables,
Cruising Along: Around the World in Eighty Years
Having an insatiable spirit of adventure and also a highly inquisitive mind most of Christian Lambs`s cruises were for a distinct purpose rather than just lying hedonistically on a deckchair in the sun. Sometimes she followed the routes of old seafaring explorers, other times visited sites of botanical interest (being a distinguished plantswoman), and on
Running the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon
It is the world`s most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon – and it`s an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it`s like
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and
Three Weeks, Eight Seconds: The Epic Tour de France of 1989
The 1989 Tour de France is arguably the greatest ever. It saw American rider Greg LeMond overturn a 50-second deficit to France`s Laurent Fignon on the final stage on the Champs Elysees to snatch the title by a mere eight seconds. After three weeks and more than 2,000 miles in the saddle, these few seconds
