Category Archives: Travel Guides
A Good Day for Climbing Trees
How two unlikely heroes inspired a whole townSometimes, in the blink of an eye, you do something that changes your life forever.Like climbing a tree with a girl you don`t know.Marnus is tired of feeling invisible, living in the shadow of his two brothers.His older brother is good at breaking swimming records and girls` hearts.
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama – `Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sentient beings`A Sunday Times must readA New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Best Pop Science Book of 2016One of the Week`s Best Science Picks, NatureWhat`s the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have
Walking with Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright.” So said Danish writer Sรธren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain’s most challenging trek: to walk from John O’Groats to Land’s End. But it wasn’t all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard villages and cosy bed and breakfasts. In this
Gaza: Preparing for Dawn
A coastal civilisation open to the world. A flourishing port on a major international trading route. This was Gaza`s past. Can it be its future?Today, Gaza is home to a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel, where tens of thousands once worked, and unable to flee in
The Return of the Young Prince
A beautiful tribute to the international bestseller The Little Prince, with specially commissioned illustrations by the award-winning artist Pietari PostiFew stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. But even princes from faraway planets eventually grow up. No longer content with his tiny planet, the
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he
Russia: A Short History
Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia.Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History begins with the origins of the first Slavic state, and continues to the present-day tensions between Russia and its neighbours, the
The Sellout – Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2016 Man Bokker PrizeA biting satire about a young man`s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, `The Sellout` showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of `The Sellout` spent his childhood
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. Jenni Murray presents the history of Britain as you`ve never seen it before, through the lives of twenty-one women who refused to succumb to the established laws of society, whose lives embodied hope and change,
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever.This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
Eccentric, shy aristocrat … or mad, bad and dangerous to know?Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
One day in November 1994, Lawrence Levy received a phone call out of the blue from Steve Jobs, whom he`d never met, offering him a job running Pixar, a little-known company that had already lost Jobs $50 million. With Pixar`s prospects looking bleak, it was with some trepidation that Levy accepted the position. After a
Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn`t managed to fulfil his dream of becoming a writer. Instead, he works in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time,
A Man for All Markets: Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street
A New York Times bestsellerIn a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world`s first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight, ushering in a revolution on
Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery
Rosie Strange doesn`t believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It`s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There`s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she
Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery
The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls, blood leaks from ceilings and rats besiege the dining room. Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights. But before Rosie Strange and Sam Stone can do their thing events turn darker. For
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the MonthAs religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose to power. They governed nations while kings fought in foreign lands. They ruled on behalf of nephews, brothers and sons. They negotiated peace between their warring nations. For decades,
The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love
Winner of the Marco Polo Outstanding General Travel Themed Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him
By Gaslight
*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017*LONDON 1885 – A woman`s body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the Thames. For two men, this event will push them to the very brink.DETECTIVE WILLIAM PINKERTON – `Thirty-nine years old, already famous and
Strange But True: 10 of the World`s Greatest Mysteries Explained
Prepare to have your mind blown! As you explore ten of the world`s greatest unsolved mysteries, you`ll witness a UFO encounter, search for the lost city of Atlantis, tour a haunted house and discover the kraken`s true form. Along the way, you`ll use the scientific method and sharp thinking to separate fact from fiction and
