Category Archives: Travel Guides
A Long Walk South: An Irishman`s Trek on the GR5
Patronising advice by a doctor at a retirement course to `walk a couple of miles a day` challenges architect Sean Rothery to take a proper walk and so, at the age of sixty-five, he sets out to walk the GR5, the Grande Randonee Cinq. From the steely grey North Sea to the intense blue Mediterranean,
The Part-Time Vegetarian
Whether for personal, practical or planetary reasons, more and more people are adopting a flexitarian diet that has less meat and fish, and is mostly vegetarian. In `The Part-Time Vegetarian` Nicola Graimes presents a collection of fresh new recipes, all vegetarian, but many with a Part-Time Option showing how to include meat or fish if
The Burren & the Aran Islands: A Walking Guide
The Burren and the Aran Islands, with their unique combination of flora, fauna and landscape, are explored by large numbers of walkers annually. This revised guide to the best walking routes in the region has clear descriptions and additional information to enhance enjoyment and appreciation of the place. From the rugged interior to spectacular coastal
Mowgli Street Food: Stories and recipes from the Mowgli Street Food restaurants
“Beautiful, tasty, delicious food that I could eat every day.” Simon Rimmer,ย Sunday BrunchThis unique collection of recipes and stories fromย Nisha Katona`sย Mowgli Street Foodย restaurants brings you the best of their beloved menu, and much more.Discover how to recreate the iconic Angry Bird, the signature flavours of the House Lamb Curry, and of course, the secrets of
Dublin & Wicklow: A Walking Guide
This guidebook describes the best walking routes in Dublin and Wicklow. From mountain landscape to scenic coastal paths, from woodland trails to challenging hill-walks, there are routes here for everyone. Trips vary from two-hour strolls to eight-hour treks, and are illustrated with sketch maps and colour photographs. This is an area of great scenic variety
Ireland`s Best Walks: A Walking Guide
In a country richly endowed with wild mountain ranges, secluded valleys and untamed coastlines, the best natural landscapes can only be explored on foot. Here are over sixty of the greatest one-day walking routes in Ireland, varying from short strolls to full-day treks. Every part of the Republic and Northern Ireland is featured. From rugged
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
“They say that the history of Vietnam can be found in a bowl of pho, and from his handcart- kitchen, Old Man Hu`ng makes the best in all Hanoi. But a striking young Vietnamese-American woman – Maggie Ly – wants more from him than a bowl of soup. Just a young girl when Saigon fell,
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens` London
“Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens`s London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you`ve read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.” Sebastian FaulksThe nineteenth century was a time
The White Tiger
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize 2008.Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: Indian servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer’ฆBorn in a remote Indian village, the son of a rickshaw-puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he smashes coals and wipes tables,
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma`s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, but the heart of their
Year Zero: A History of 1945
“Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness accounts and personal stories,
The Potter`s Hand
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah`s nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will
Foreign Bodies
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale`s life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape, by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens
Victoria: A Life
“When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique – an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead
Connemara & Mayo – A Walking Guide: Mountain, Coastal & Island Walks
Connemara and Mayo form an area known for stunning scenery and this guidebook describes some of the region`s best and most spectacular walks. A wide variety of walks and terrains are covered: easy two-hour walks on surfaced paths; two- to three-hour ?at island and coastal walks; two- to four-hour gentle hill and mountain hikes; and
Gold Mountain Blues
One Family. Five generations. An epic story of love and loss.China, 1879 With the Opium wars at their height, Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada, determined to make a life for himself and support his family back home. He will endure great hardship as he works to build the Pacific Railway and save every
Donegal, Sligo & Leitrim – Mountain and Coastal Hillwalks
The northwest of Ireland provides a diversity of walks, from the wild, untamed landscape of Donegal, with its mountains, sea-cliffs and glens, to the gentler hills, green valleys and picturesque escarpments of Sligo and Leitrim. This guidebook describes 30 walks of various grades in this fascinating part of Ireland that has inspired poets, and is
1222
After a train travelling from Oslo to Bergen train derails high in the mountains, the 269 stranded passengers take shelter in an old hotel during a deadly snow storm. On their first night in the hotel a man is found murdered and retired inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen finds herself at the centre of an investigation shrouded
Northern Ireland – A Walking Guide
This guide presents top-class walking routes in Northern Ireland. From rugged mountain peaks to spectacular coastal scenery, from challenging hill walks to shorter woodland and waterside excursions, there is something for everyone. Every part of the region is covered, from the mountains of Mourne to the Giant`s Causeway, from Fermanagh`s `lake district` to the rolling
Fear Not
The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent, a black note sounds. A boy`s body washes up near the shoreline of the city`s Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered
