Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Man in the Shed
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world imagined by his wife and pretends to be the man she loves. The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories
Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities
Shortlisted for a 2016 Edward Standford Travel Writing Award.Stanfords Children`s Book of the Month May 2016Learn to greet people around the globe in this interactive atlas of hellos. With over 150 languages, flaps to reveal pronunciation and fact-files explaining how to write `hi` in hieroglyphs and how to sign `hao` in Native American hand talk.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and security. Desperate to
In Focus: 10 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways
Stanfords Children`s Book of the Month July 2016Ten illustrators place ten subjects under the microscope to uncover what lies beneath the surface.From famous landmarks to fruit and veg and from the natural world to everyday inventions, In Focus investigates a fresh perspective by looking at 10 wonders of the world from the outside, in.
Let Not the Waves of the Sea
LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson`s account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope and of the unexpected places where healing can be found. Simon`s journey takes him from Edinburgh
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 100 PLACES
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part exploration of our national heritage, his wide-ranging selection of
Girl on the Stairs
Jane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding to have a child, they move to Petra`s hometown, Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane, at six months pregnant, finds herself increasingly isolated and preoccupied with the monuments and reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city
Sorry!: The English and Their Manners
Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners – holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do
Soldiers Sahibs
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India`s north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence`s Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East
Bright Shiny Morning
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey`s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters,
The Children who Fought Hitler
Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and cemeteries of `Flanders Fields`. Many married local women and their children
Adrift: A Secret Life of London`s Waterways
From deep winter to late autumn, from east to west, Adrift takes the reader on a tour of the people, politics, history and wildlife of London`s canals and rivers. Blending nature writing, social observation and memoir, Helen Babbs invites you on an eye-opening journey into a different side of the city. From Walthamstow Marsh in
To War with Wellington
The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative style that is his trademark, Peter Snow recalls how Wellington evolved from a backward, sensitive schoolboy into the aloof but brilliant commander.
The Chapel at the Edge of the World
Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in
Secret Britain : The Hidden Bits of our History
Some of our most intriguing history is missing. Perhaps there has been a conspiracy, a cover-up? Or maybe some stories have been lost, forgotten or were just too embarrassing to talk about at the time? But now they are back, revealed in all their glory: secret passages, events, societies, loves, identities and even dark secrets
Eating for Britain
`Who are these people? Look at what they eat.` Simon Majumdar travels the country to find out what British food – from Arbroath Smokies to Welsh rarebit to chicken tikka masala – reveals about British identity. Exploring the history of British food, he celebrates the wealth of fare on offer today, and meets the people
Serious Men
Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn`t surprise his neighbours in the vast tenement building in which he lives, where to be sober and employed practically makes a man a legend. He works as an assistant at the Institute of Theory and Research, where he studies with amusement and envy the
How Many Moons Does The Earth Have
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There`s a problem with the typical quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip – and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. Test
The Circle of Reason
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as various and
