Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Hero`s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to explore Italy`s past and present.In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy`s legendary revolutionary hero, was finally forced to abandon his defence of Rome. He and his men had held the
Machines Like Me
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment,
Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey
Shortlisted for the 2021 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year in association with the Authors` Club.An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight MountainsPaolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted
A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet
For seventeen years, as part of his daily writerly routine, the author and naturalist Mark Cocker has taken a two-mile walk down to the river from his cottage on the edge of the Norfolk Broads National Park. Over the course of those 10,000 daily paces he has learnt the art of patience to observe a
First Person Singular: Stories
A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of `Norwegian Wood` and `The Wind-up Bird Chronicle`.The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to
White on White
“Marvelous.” Lauren GroffA student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio.In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner cafรฉ, the kitchen at
Pussy
Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no
The Landscape
After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. McCullin`s pastoral view is far from idyllic. Though the woods and stream close to his house in Somerset have offered some respite, he has not sought out
Metropolis: A History of Humankind`s Greatest Invention
A dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind`s greatest invention: the city.From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social,
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
The Garden Jungle is about the wildlife that lives right under our noses, in our gardens and parks, between the gaps in the pavement, and in the soil beneath our feet. Wherever you are right now, the chances are that there are worms, woodlice, centipedes, flies, silverfish, wasps, beetles, mice, shrews and much, much more,
Greenery: Journeys in Springtime
A masterpiece of nature writing from the author of The Running SkyGreenery begins in a midsummer in the middle of a winter. One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee watched swallows and those birds set him off on a journey in pursuit of the spring as it moves north, bringing swallows and all the
Frankissstein: A Love Story – Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker PrizeFrom “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desireIn Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love ‘“ against their better judgement ‘“ with Victor Stein,
The Volunteer
An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling.The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts
Eating to Extinction: The World`s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
“We all need to pay more attention to what we are (and are no longer) eating. Dan Saladino inspires us to believe that turning the tide is still possible.” Yotam Ottolenghi`Eating to Extinction` is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, a love letter to the diversity of global food cultures,
Waypoints: A Journey on Foot
Signed by the authorA spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of pilgrimage, wilderness and walking.Unhappy in his office job, Robert Martineau craves an experience that will shake his feeling of inertia. Aged twenty-seven, he buys a flight to Accra, and begins to walk. He walks 1,000 miles through Ghana, Togo and Benin, to Ouidah, an
Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China
Guy Delisle`s work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in `cold and soulless` hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang,
Live a Little
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of `The Finkler Question`.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything ‘“ including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with
Orwell on Freedom
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world’s most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the unjust sufferings of the poor and unemployed, warned against totalitarianism and defended freedom of speech.This selection, from both
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it`s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat – female journalists – are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands,
Independence Square
A complex, contemporary political thriller from the bestselling author of Booker-shortlisted `Snowdrops`Twelve years ago, Simon Davey prevented a tragedy, and ruined his own life.Once a senior British diplomat in Kiev, he lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is travelling on the Tube when
