Category Archives: Travel Guides
Letters to Camondo
Signed by the author63 rue de Monceau, ParisDear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal`s forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with
Once There Were Wolves: The Instant New York Times Bestseller
A wild and gripping novel about one woman`s quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any costInti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Highlands with fourteen grey wolves, a traumatised sister and fierce tenacity.As a biologist, she knows the animals are the best hope for rewilding the ruined landscape and she cares little for
To Kill A Mockingbird
`Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.` A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee`s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem
Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers` Award for PoetryAmanda Gorman`s powerful and historic poem `The Hill We Climb` read at President Joe Biden`s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.”Stunning” CNN “Deeply rousing and uplifting” VogueOn 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a
Falling in Love
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon`s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy`s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli – then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name,
Conclave
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world`s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the
Go Set A Watchman
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – `Scout` – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that
Red Sky at Noon
`An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridiculously good` Dan Snow`The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire …`Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden
Islands of Mercy
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE BOLD NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GUSTAV SONATAShe was `The Angel of the Baths`, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of `1000 Years of Annoying the French` and `A Year in the Merde`. `The French Revolution and What Went Wrong` looks back at the French Revolution and how it’s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to
An Astronomer`s Tale: A Bricklayer`s Guide to the Galaxy
A Bricklayer`s Guide to the Galaxy …The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Perfect for readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks – as well as fans of Brian Cox and the BBC`s Sky at Night.Gary Fildes left school at sixteen,
Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)
Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer`s earliest short stories, published together in book form for the very first time. A treat for all fans of Georgette Heyer, and for those who love stories full of romance and intrigue.Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; affairs of the
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020″Djinns aren`t real, but if they were, they would only steal children because we have the most delicious souls”Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he`s smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss
The Spy
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family
In this heartfelt memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his boyhood home in Song County, Henan Province, painting a richly detailed portrait of rural China during the Cultural RevolutionIt is a hard but loving childhood. Yan`s family carve out a modest existence, though food is often so scarce they have to find edible bark
The Last Migration
“An extraordinary novel… as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I`ve ever read” Emily St. John Mandel”An adventure of a wilder sort” Vogue USA dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last
Redhead by the Side of the Road
From the bestselling author of `A Spool of Blue Thread`: an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection Micah Mortimer isn`t the most polished person you`ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating
A Little History of British Gardening
Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores? This lively `potted` history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and `outdoor rooms` today.It tracks
No Map Could Show Them
`When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps – we make the routes we follow disappear`. The poems of Helen Mort`s second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows
A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shadeNapoleon`s gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine`s gardens
