Category Archives: Travel Guides
Algarve Flexi Map
This easy to use, full-colour, water-proof map is all you need to navigate the Algarve. It also includes handy destination detail on Portimao and Vilamoura, and tips on top attractions and getting around.ยท Combines clear, up-to-date cartography with destination detail, stylish design and stunning photographyยท The main map is at a scale of 1:220000, with
Milan Flexi Map
Insight Guides Flexi Map Milan:This easy to use, full-colour, water-proof map is all you need to navigate Milan. It also includes handy destination detail on Milan environs and tips on top attractions and getting around.ยท Combines clear, up-to-date cartography with destination detail, stylish design and stunning photography ยท The main map is at a scale
Vienna Flexi Map
Insight Guides Flexi Map Vienna:This easy to use, full-colour, water-proof map is all you need to navigate Vienna. It also includes handy destination detail on Vienna environs and tips on top attractions and getting around.ยท Combines clear, up-to-date cartography with destination detail, stylish design and stunning photography ยท The main map is at a scale
Orlando Flexi Map
Flexi map Orlando is laminated, durable and has its own index that has been categorised for ease of use.Inside Flexi Map Orlando:- A list of recommended sights, divided by theme and linked to the mapping by numbered markers.- A handy information section with concise details on getting around, tourist offices, money, tipping, opening times, public
The Snow Angel
Lauren St John`s stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal.Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena has only one dream: to climb Mount Kenya like her hero,
In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide
The independent kingdom of Scotland flourished until the beginning of the last century. Its great trading port of Challaid, in the north west of the country, sent ships around the world and its merchants and bankers grew rich on their empire in Central America. But Scotland is not what it was, and the docks of
Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon
Sally Gardner`s enchanting new series, illustrated by Nick Maland, is a fairy tale full of traditional ingredients. When Betsy K. Glory, the daughter of a mermaid and an ice-cream maker, meets the mysterious Mr Tiger they have a giant challenge: a moon to turn blue, berries to collect and wishable-delicious ice-cream to create. The sort
Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football
Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell`s Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian phenomenon… From the author of The Dark Heart of Italy, Blood on the Altar and A Place of Refuge. Italy`s ultras are
Forget My Name
You are outside your front door. There are strangers in your house. Then you realise… You can`t remember your name. She arrived at the train station after a difficult week at work. Her bag had been stolen, and with it, her identity. Her whole life was in there – passport, wallet, house key. When she
Ten Nasty Little Toads: The Zephyr Book of Cautionary Tales
A full-colour gift book of ten darkly-comic and hilarious cautionary tales by Astrosaurs author Steve Cole, illustrated by Tim Archbold.In these delightfully humorous tales of a decidedly blackish hue, ten follysome toads can never change their beastly habits despite the efforts of goodly witch Madame Rana who reminds them `It`s never too late to change.`
Court of Lions
Sometimes surrender is more courageous than resistance.Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she`s happy with her new life ‘“ but how could
The Secret Surfer
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the YearRecovering from a hip replacement operation, and suffering from a mid-life crisis, Iain Gately sets out to catch a tube. This is no London underground train, but rather that evanescent space, beneath the lip of a breaking wave, that
The Story of the Great British Bake off
Take one tent. Fill with 12 amateur bakers. Garnish with one venerable cookery writer, one blue-eyed bread-maker, and two comedy queens with a love of innuendo. And there you have the recipe for the most popular show of our times. When The Great British Bake Off made its debut in August 2010, it had the
Great Books of China
Great Books of China offers concise introductions – each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question – to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such classics as The Book of Songs and
City of Light
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugene Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann`s renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a `City of Light` – characterised by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares
May We Borrow Your Language?: How English Steals Words from All Over the World
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings` Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawak, Cantonese, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Inuit and Erdu –
The Plots Against Hitler
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler`s dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged – soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians, even a carpenter – who
Black Robe
Laforgue felt his body tremble. What can be keeping them? Has the Commandant refused? Why has he not sent for me? Is this God`s punishment for my lie about my hearing? Father Laforgue, an idealistic Jesuit, embarks on a desparate mission to relieve an isolated priest in danger of his life in the wilds of
Found in Translation
“Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence” George Steiner.It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture exists in isolation; all writers are part of the intertwining braid of literature.`Found In Translation` brings together one hundred glittering diamonds of world literature, celebrating not
False Lights
`Georgette Heyer meets William Boyd … Intrigue, murder, love and betrayal – I couldn`t put it down` Diney Costeloe. Napoleon has won the Battle of Waterloo and England is under French occupation… A half-drowned girl washes up on a Cornish beach, escaping French soldiers after the murder of her black sea captain father. An aristocratic
