Category Archives: Travel Guides
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
`Ottolenghi changed the way we cook in this country just as surely and enduringly as Elizabeth David`s A Book of Mediterranean Food had in 1950. It brought into our kitchens bold flavours, a vivid simplicity, a spirited but never tricksy inventiveness and, above all, light.` Nigella LawsonInspired by their childhoods in West and East Jerusalem,
I Never Knew That About Britain: the Quiz Book
Over 1000 Questions and Answers About Our Glorious IslesBestselling author and quiz master Christopher Winn is here to test your general knowledge of Britain with over 1000 quiz questions to perplex and puzzle about our glorious islands. Covering a myriad of subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries and
A Race Too Far
The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race – now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszIn 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race-an incredible test of endurance never before attempted-a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop.This remarkable challenge inspired those daring
The Bear and The Nightingale
** Voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017 **`Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.`In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the
I Never Knew That About New York
In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures. You can learn about the extraordinary people who built New York into one of the world`s great cities in just 400 years. New York is one
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler`s Atomic Bomb
It`s 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don`t have enough `heavy water` – essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world`s sole supplier of heavy water. Under threat of death,
The World the Railways Made
Across American prairies, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some, the `Iron Road` symbolized the brute horrors of modernity;
The Man on a Donkey
In 1536, Henry VIII was almost toppled from his throne when Northern England rose to oppose the Dissolution of the Monasteries. For a few weeks Robert Aske, the leader of the rebels, held the fate of the entire nation in his hand…The Man on a Donkey is an enthralling novel about a moment in history
Finisterre
Germany, September 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out. Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender, German intelligence launch Operation Finisterre – a last-ditch plan to enable Hitler to deny the savage logic of a war on two fronts
The Council of Egypt
Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, `invents` an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian history. Over the ironies of plot and character, hangs
And I`d Do It Again
With the world at her feet and Californian railroad fortunes in her purse, Aimee had a tale or two to tell. Here, she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo, avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong and outwitting murder in Shanghai. Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin, shame or vice, Aimee
The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in
The Beast
Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain`s mightiest tabloid. Returning from holiday, he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside the paper`s Kensington offices. Two male terrorism suspects have escaped from a mosque disguised as women; recently suspicion and fear have made everyone alert. Jeremy`s casual observation sets off a chain of
The Black Watch: Fighting in the Frontline 1899-2006
Formed into a regiment in 1739 and named for the dark tartan of its soldiers` kilts, The Black Watch has fought in almost every major conflict of nation and empire between 1745 and the present, and has a reputation second to none. Following on from The Highland Furies, in which she traced the regiment`s history
100 Walks in Staffordshire
Staffordshire offers a wide range of delights for the walker – from the windswept Peak District through riverside walks to picturesque villages. This collection of 100 walks ranges from between three to eleven miles in length, with routes to suit all walking abilities. Full-colour mapping is included which is sourced from the Ordnance Survey.
Artemis
Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon…`Fascinating` Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut——————————————WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon.Population 2,000. Mostly tourists.Some criminals.Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now
Three and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel.In the autumn of 1936,
Low and Slow: How to Cook Meat
“If you have ever cooked a steak medium-well instead of medium-rare, a chicken that ends up dry and tasteless, a stew that`s tough or stringy or a rack of ribs that falls a little too much off the bone then this is the book that will make your life that little bit better. “This book
I Never Knew That About Wales
The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and unearths the hidden gems that they each hold. Discover where history
Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams
He promised her the earth. She found herself in hell. Handsome Frank Rossi took Matty Gilbie away from her working class roots in Bermondsey, East London and promised her fame and fortune. In America, the Cockney Canary would become a movie star. As his wife, she would be half of a power couple, feted and
