Category Archives: Travel Guides
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
“A moving, multilayered memoir’ฆ extraordinary, ambitious… its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.” Simon Callow”A marvellous book… an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.” Simon Jenkins”There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice,
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
`Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.` New York TimesA riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usClemantine Wamariya was six years old when
The Secrets We Kept
“Tantalising” Sunday Times”Thoroughly enjoyable” Guardian”Irresistibly charged” Mail on SundayNo one looks twice at the women in the typing pool.No one knows that two of them are trading secrets.The secret is a book, the size of the one in your hands, and within its pages, a love story that could change the world.But where there is
The First Woman – Winner of the Jhalak Prize 2021
Winner of the Jhalak Prize 2021″Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller” Reni Eddo-LodgeFor one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has.Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women.
Rule Britannia
The first book in a light-hearted historical adventure series set during the mid-twentieth century.”An immensely readable treat!” Alexander McCall SmithErnest Drabble, a Cambridge historian and mountaineer, travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell – a macabre artefact owned by Dr Wilkinson. Drabble only tells one person of his plans –
The Ultimate Insult Generator: Over 60 million hilarious zingers and stingers
This fabulously fun flipbook allows you to generate 68 million brilliantly beastly insults for all occasions. Wacky, zany, and sometimes plain silly, this book will ensure you`ll always have the last word, not to mention the last laugh! Hilarious heckles for silencing sassy siblings Teasing taunts to make best friends snigger Madcap comebacks to confuse
The Balkan Trilogy
`So glittering is the overall parade – and so entertaining the surface – that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement` Sunday Times`A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war`
Silver Sparrow
A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of `An American Marriage`”My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.”This is the breathtaking story of a man`s deception, a family`s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. James Witherspoon has two families, one public, the other a closely guarded secret. But
Hoakes Island: “A Fiendish Puzzle Adventure “
Henry Hoakes has gone missing and Hoakes Island Amusement Park is in grave danger. This notebook, a hastily assembled collection of diary entries, notes, puzzles and clues, is the only key to find out what`s happened to Henry and stop the dastardly developers who want to knock down the park. Solve the puzzles and discover
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France
The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes `Our Lady of Paris` the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? What
Let`s Go Swimming on Doomsday
I tell myself I`ve chosen to live, but the water knows the truth. Waves brush my arms, soft as shroud linen.The water knows I have to die.Three years after his older brother is recruited by the Somali militia group Al Shaabab, Abdi and his family are kidnapped by Americans. In exchange for their freedom, he
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers
From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic
Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain
“The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge`s `Why I`m No Longer Talking to White People About Race` and Owen Jones`s `Chavs`.” Andrew Marr, Sunday Times”In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
`The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.`Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens
City of Jasmine
Syria – a country at warAmal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new life elsewhere?From one of Germany`s most
Tirzah and the Prince of Crows
A hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970sSet in a remote valley in Wales, this is 1974, and Tirzah is sixteen, pretty, witty and wise. Brought up in a staunchly religious family, she has lived a sheltered life. But then she meets a boy. As she begins to struggle against
On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America
Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being.Now, in his first book, he draws on his own experiences – of growing up without his mother, with
Patsy
From the award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn, a brave, stirring portrait of a Jamaican woman who leaves everything behind for a new life in AmericaWhen Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it`s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for
Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules
Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn`t do and would see the world bend before they did.In 1872 a mesmerising psychic named Victoria Woodhull shattered tradition by running for the White House.
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
Jenni Murray gives the lie to Thomas Carlyle`s infamous declaration that `the history of the world is but the biography of great men.` Women have played just as great a role in the story of humankind, only for their own tales to be marginalised, censored and forgotten. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops.Marie
