Category Archives: Travel Guides
The African Trilogy
Chinua Achebe is considered by many to be the father of African literature in English, and here is Achebe’s first and most famous novel, `Things Fall Apart` alongside `No Longer at Ease` and `Arrow of God`, under the collective title `The African Trilogy`.In `Things Fall Apart` the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, ‘strong man’ and tribal
His Dark Materials Trilogy
The book, resting somewhere between the fantasy and science fiction genres, with its rich and complex world, will captivate adults as well as younger readers. The story revolves around a pair of pre-adolescents, Lyra and Will, children from a parallel universe who share two common bonds: the loss of parents and the possession of objects
Troubles / The Seige of Krishnapur
Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857, “The Siege of Krishnapur” is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers. Eventually rescued after undergoing terrible privations, the leading characters all find their ideals tested and their smug assumptions of military and moral superiority severely shaken.
The Ambassadors
This complex tale of self-discovery, considered by the author to be his best work, traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.
Selected Writings
A new collection of the seminal writings of America`s first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement. AN EVERYMAN`S LIBRARY ORIGINAL.This volume of John Muir`s selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir`s account of his
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras`s formative experiences – including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband`s return from Nazi internment – revealing the personal
Berlin Everyman Mapguide 2016
A clever combination of text, photographs and clear cartography. It features 6 colour-coded districts, each with its own large-scale fold-out map. A spread at the front highlights the 10 sights you shouldn`t miss; one at the back highlights the 10 best things to do when in Berlin. It details of more than 100 restaurants, bars,
Rome Everyman Mapguide
All the practical advice you need including getting around and where to stay plus a transport map- Ten must-see sights- Themed walks- Rome in 3 days plus day trips close to the city- Rome on a budget
London Everyman Mapguide
All the practical advice you need including getting around and where to stay plus a transport map- Ten must-see sights- Themed walks including Pop & Rock, Regent`s Canal Towpath and Street Art- London in 3 days plus day trips close to the city- London on a budget
Stories of the Sea
This title includes classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London that mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray
Dog Stories
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling`s heroically faithful `Garm`, Bret Harte`s irrepressible scoundrel of a `yaller dog` and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem`s `Ava`s Apartment`. Here are stories which touchingly illuminate the dog`s role in the emotional lives of humans, such
A Bend in the River
Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved from the coastal settlement where he grew up to an unnamed country in the African interior (largely based on the Democratic Republic of Congo), settling on that very bend in the river where
New York Stories
Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed writers past and present, ranging from Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, John Cheever and Shirley Jackson to Jay McInerney, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz, introduce us
Fishing Stories
“Fishing Stories” nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling`s “On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art” and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx`s “The Wer-Trout” to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean`s “A River Runs Through It.”
Stories from the Kitchen
Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The menu includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Woolf`s To the Lighthouse,
Paris Stories
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the city`s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle the explosion of
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He is one of the few early adventurers whose name nearly everyone knows. His book was one of the best-loved works of the Middle Ages,
Spix`s Macaw: The Race to Save the World`s Rarest Bird
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.In December 1897 the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that `there are so many calls on a parson`s purse, that he cannot always treat himself to expensive parrots.` He was hoping to purchase
Right Ho, Jeeves
The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful climax in his drunken speech to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School. For Bertie Wooster`s old friend has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes
Made in Italy
An exquisitely designed volume of innovative restaurant dishes and old family favourites from Giorgio Locatelli, Britain`s best-loved Italian chef and restaurateur. Opening with an extensive guide to preparing antipasti and culminating in a mouth-watering selection of desserts – via soups, risotto, pasta, fish and meat dishes – Giorgio Locatelli`s masterpiece is the must-have contemporary Italian
