Category Archives: Travel Guides
Giants of Steam: The Great Men and Machines of Rail`s Golden Age
The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam`s glory days pushed its design and performance to remarkable limits, taking these powerful and beautifully designed machines to new heights
Quentin Blake`s Ten Frogs
`Ten Frogs/Dix Grenouilles` is Quentin Blake`s wonderfully illustrated counting book written in both English and French. Starting with `One Crow/Un Corbeau` and proceeding with more and more animals (`Two Goats/Deux Chevres`, `Three Dogs/Trois Chiens` etc) the pages get gradually more and more filled with animals until reaching `A Hundred Wasps/Cent Guepes`. A great way for
To Sea & Back
The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. In To Sea and Back, Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific knowledge to reveal, from the salmon`s point of view, both the riverine and marine worlds in which it lives. He explores this iconic fish`s journey to reach its feeding grounds in the northern oceans
Fantastic Stories
This amazing collection of stories, written by the hilarious Terry Jones and illustrated by Michael Foreman, will have both children and parents rolling with laughter. Meet a man who has eyes all over his body and sees everything but what is most important, a boy who is the best tickler in all of the land
The Spirit House
The Bangkok police have a confession from a nineteen-year-old drug addict admitting to the murder of the British computer geek (though judging from the bruises on the suspect`s face at the press conference, it appears they may have used more than a little gentle persuasion to get it). Case closed? Apparently so: only there are
Asia Hand
Bangkok – the Year of the Monkey. Vincent Calvino is spending the New Year on a call-out to Lumpini Park Lake, where the Thai cops have fished out the body of a farang cameraman. Calvino traces the American`s murder to an elite unit of old Asia hands – a set of foreigners with bad reputations
The China Lover
Ian Buruma`s epic novel is the richly imagined story of one woman`s struggle to survive in the face of war and occupation in the Far East during the Second World War. It should appeal to anyone who loved Memoirs of a Geisha. When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of
Aquariums Of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the `hermit kingdom` and tell his story to the world. This memoir reveals the human suffering in his camp, with its forced labour, frequent public executions and near-starvation rations. Kang eventually escaped to South Korea via China to give testimony to
Let it be Morning
A young journalist, recently married with a young child, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large new home in his parent`s hometown. It`s a complicated return – his wife hates his parents – but they are also moving back to live in an Arab village in Israel. Nothing
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn`t her father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle – to Lapland. There, under the northern
The Bethlehem Murders
For decades, Omar Yussef has taught history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing imminent execution Yussef sets out to prove his innocence.As Yussef falls
West – A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss
West tells the story of Jim Perrin`s life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a complex and sensual love-story, a celebration of the beauty and redemptive power of wild nature and an extraordinary account of one man`s journey towards the
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there – shocking his students, and surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters – with a mysterious Portuguese woman
The Cellist Of Sarajevo
Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Dragan, gripped by
The Fighter
From the author of Desperation Road, longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2017The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of abandonment now rests in a hospice.
Ascension
This is a new title from the author of the Richard & Judy bestseller “The Cellist of Sarajevo”. This is an unforgettable walk with Salvo Ursari, tightrope walker extraordinaire. Gripping from its very first heartstopping page, “Ascension” is a breathtaking novel about risk, fate and history; a dazzling feat of storytelling that takes us on
London A-Z Mini Street Atlas PAPERBACK
A-Z Mini Atlas of London in a pocket-size, paperback format at 1:21,477 (3″ to 1 mile), with central London also shown at 1:10,560 (6″ to 1 mile). Additional plates show access to London’s Congestion Zone and a diagram of the Transport for London network. The atlas also has an additional index of all the tube,
The Rebels` Hour
When Assani, a young cowherd, left his remote village in the Congo to pursue studies in the city, he learned that he was ethnically Tutsi. Though uninterested in politics or military life, he was soon forced to take sides in the bloody conflict rocking his country in the wake of the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.
James Joyce`s Dublin Houses and Nora Barnacle`s Galway
“James Joyce`s Dublin Houses” puts the author`s life in the context of his childhood and early formative years. It is the first concise survey of its kind and concentrates on the numerous places the Joyce family lived – it also pinpoints the haunts of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Vivien Igoe, an expert on Joyce,
New England
Whether you`re exploring the back streets of old Boston or skiing in Vermont, the “Rough Guide Map” provides invaluable information to help you find your way. Printed on waterproof and rip-proof Polyart paper, the map includes detail on everything from road numbers and railways to ski resorts and museums. With a “Rough Guide” map in
