Category Archives: Travel Guides
You Only Live Once: Gracie Dart book 1
The start of a hilarious new teen series for fans of Geek Girl.Gracie Dart has always worked hard and she`s got a wall covered with revision timetables and French verbs to prove it. But now GCSEs are behind her and she suddenly starts to think: what was the POINT of it all?When Gracie thinks she`s
Beasts of Olympus 7: Gods of the North
Seventh book in the fun and funny Greek mythology BEASTS OF OLYMPUS series. The Greek gods and goddesses meet the Norse gods in this beastly mythical mash-up. Demon must travel to Asgard, to help save Odin`s boar, Goldbristle – without his shining light, nothing can grow and all of Asgard will wither and die. But
Hawksmoor at Home: Meat – Seafood – Sides – Breakfasts – Puddings – Cocktails
“`Hawksmoor at Home` should be covered in fingerprints and splashes of food, as it`s a great hands-on book to use every day.” Heston Blumenthal`When we started out we had a simple plan – to open the best steak restaurant in London. We travelled the world searching for the perfect steak, but discovered that beef from
Beasts of Olympus 8: Unicorn Emergency
Eighth book in the Greek mythology BEASTS OF OLYMPUS series. Artemis, goddess of the hunt, has a unicorn emergency . . .Artemis, goddess of the hunt, has a unicorn emergency – something is sickening her wonderful wild herd, and if Demon, Official Beastkeeper to Olympus, can`t save them, they`ll become extinct. There`s just one teeny
J Sheekey FISH
In the heart of London`s Covent Garden, J Sheekey has been offering the finest fish, oysters, shellfish and other fruits de mer since the 1890s. Josef Sheekey was a market stall holder given permission by Lord Salisbury to serve fish and seafood in his 1896 property development in St Martin`s Court, on the proviso that
The Wild Robot Escapes
`An Iron Man style fable for our age` Piers Torday on THE WILD ROBOTThe sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter BrownRoz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home,
Comptoir Libanais
For over a decade Tony Kitous has been Britain`s most passionate provider of contemporary Lebanese and North African food. His restaurants were the first in London to merge traditional Arabic cooking with easy contemporary eating. There are now five Comptoir Libanais restaurants in London with six more planned in the next 18 months. The success
Time Travel Diaries
From the million-copy-selling author of The Roman Mysteries comes a nail-biting time-travel adventure in Roman London – where past meets present.Billionaire Solomon Daisy is obsessed with the skeleton of a blue-eyed girl from Roman London. He has managed to invent a Time Machine so that he can go and find her, but it`s estimated that
The Forbidden Temple
To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything – even another climber`s life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no
Secret Chamber
People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa – the impenetrable forests of northern Congo. But when a brilliant young English doctor vanishes, alarm bells really start to ring. Intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson Luca Matthews (“The Forbidden Temple” hero) in the Himalayas
Timeless Land
Rosie Highgrove-Jones grows up hating her double-barrelled name. She dreams of riding out over the wide plains of the family property, working on the land. Instead she`s stuck writing the social pages of the local paper. Then the horrible death of her fiance sparks a series of shocking revelations for Rosie and her family. As
I Am Justice – A Journey Out Of Africa
Eighty miles off the Libyan coast water is leaking rapidly into the bottom of a dilapidated wooden boat. Twenty-seven men, crammed in side-by-side, desperately attempt to bail it out, but the boat is sinking. In the distance one of their number spots a ship and, forcing the last moments of life from the engine, they
Lost Voices from the “Titanic”: The Definitive Oral History
Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff`s shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations of the owners, the realities of construction and the anticipation of the first sea-tests, revealing that
All At Sea
“All At Sea” is a celebration of the epic absurd, an attempt to explain just how out of hand things can become from a very simple starting point. The book follows the author`s death-defying 200-mile journey in his antique Thomas Crapper bath – not just across the Channel, but around Kent – right up to
Up With The Larks
In Up with the Larks, Tessa Hainsworth tells how she gave up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, to move to a remote part of rural Cornwall with her young family. Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle; within months, she is almost ready to return to London, tail between
Rebel Heiress
Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother`s estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history – and for butterflies in particular. Her
On The Slow Train
This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. “On the Slow Train” will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from
The Mango Orchard
As a child, Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmother`s stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver and a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew, and so he set out to follow in the footsteps of
Hannibal: Enemy of Rome
“Enemy Of Rome”: The great Carthaginian general, Hannibal, has never forgotten the defeat and humiliation of his father by Rome. Now he plans his revenge and the destruction of the old enemy. “Soldier Of Carthage”: While Hannibal prepares for war, the young son of one of his most trusted military commanders goes on an innocent
England`s Maritime Heritage from the Air
England has a long and involved relationship with the sea. It has provided a final line of defence against invasion, the route over which the country`s global trade has travelled, the source of a bountiful harvest of fish and seafood that has sustained the population, the essential links in the empire that saw Britain emerge
