Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Dead Fathers Club
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband`s brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip`s life crumble away when his father`s ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.Arming
A Long Island Story
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children – are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to cause problems for Ben and Addie. Both begin to
Sal
This is a story of something like survival.Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
`If I vanished he wouldn`t notice, if I died he wouldn`t care. I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all. I love him, and my love torments me. There are times when I feel like a ghost beside him; as if he alone is real, and I`m just
London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City
“London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you`re lost.” Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents
The Valley at the Centre of the World
Longlisted for the Highland Book PrizeShetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him. A place that Alice has fled to after the death of her husband. A place where
The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk
When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies – mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans – a magical world emerged. Men were rescued by seals in stormy seas, took seal-women for their wives and had their children suckled by
The Penelopiad
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband`s return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story – a tale of lust, greed and murder.
Weight
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson`s retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal questions about the nature
Bloody January
How much is the truth worth?When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. This was not a random act of violence.McCoy must enlist the help of his criminal underworld connections to find out the truth. How long
Hell: Dante`s Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante`s `La Divina Commedia` describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante`s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme.Accessible, modern and sublimely decorated, this remarkable edition told in three parts yokes
The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.Lister-Kaye`s joyous childhood holidays – spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden – were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions:
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Steppes Travel Adventure Travel Book of the YearThere are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, `To the River` is
Black Lamd & Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
`Impossible to put down` Observer`One of the great books of the century` Times Literary SupplementRebecca West`s epic masterpiece not only provides deep insight into the former country of Yugoslavia; it is a portrait of Europe on the brink of war. A heady cocktail of personal travelogue and historical insight, this product of an implacably inquisitive
The Tartar Steppe
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of
The Discovery Of Slowness
Sten Nadolny is the author of four novels and two collections of essays. `The Discovery of Slowness` (1983) is regarded as his masterpiece. It has been translated into all major languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide, and was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Nadolny`s masterpiece, `The Discovery of Slowness` tells
Life Of Pi
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal Bengal
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERINCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh,
There Are Little Kingdoms
This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country
