Category Archives: Travel Guides
Our Friends in Berlin
“A gripping espionage thriller” ObserverLondon, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country.He soon receives a promising lead in Amy Strallen, whose life is a world away from
Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People
`One of the most important and compelling books I`ve ever read, by one of Britain`s most gifted writers` – OWEN JONESNow We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in British politics by taking a radically different perspective: the people`s.From a warehouse in Manchester to a pub in Essex, from the outskirts of
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
A Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year’Winterson’s winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavor to leave you aglow’ – Guardian For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the twelve days
Shadowplay – Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Ficiton
Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year”Breathtaking… A hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship and love” GuardianLondon, 1878. Fresh from life in Dublin, Bram Stoker ‘“ now manager of the Lyceum Theatre ‘“ is
Late in the Day
Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead.In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves
Slack-Tide
“When two people meet is it need, fantasy or love? `Slack-Tide` takes us on an urgent journey and kept me reading late into the night.” Esther Freud”By midsummer the thing between us was finished, and it was as if a storm had torn the roof from over me.”It is four years since the loss of
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one of the greatest deal-makers alive. His companies possess extraordinary political and cultural power. Whether it is the Sun and the rise of Thatcher, BSkyB and the transformation of football, or Fox News and the
Apple and Knife
A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce and fabulous female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, `Apple and Knife` is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power
The Palomar Cookbook
Enjoy more than 100 utterly delicious recipes from award-winning restaurant The Palomar, with dishes influenced by the rich cultures of Southern Spain, North Africa and the Levant. This debut cookbook includes recipes for the restaurant`s signature dishes, alongside recipes drawn from family tradition, mothers and grandmothers, from influences, encounters, places travelled to and places evoked
Zoe`s Ghana Kitchen
Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.Ghanian food is always fun, always relaxed and always tasty! From Pan-roasted Cod with Grains of Paradise and Nkruma (Okra) Tempura to Coconut & Cassava Cake and Cubeb Spiced Shortbread, this is contemporary African food for simply everyone. If you`re already familiar with good home-cooked Ghanaian food,
Clock Dance
A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue ThreadWilla Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother’s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave
Complete Bordeaux: 3rd edition
“A fresh and authoritative addition to the Bordeaux library.”Eric Asimov, The New York Times”This new edition is the ultimate guide to perhaps the greatest wine area in the world. Whether you use the book in your local wine store or tote it on a journey to Bordeaux itself, this book is definitive. And magnificent.” Huffington
China Dream
One of China’s greatest living novelists’ GuardianBlending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he
Feasts
In Feasts, the highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning Persiana & no. 1 bestseller Sirocco, Sabrina Ghayour presents a delicious array of Middle-Eastern dishes from breakfasts to banquets and the simple to the sumptuous. Enjoy menus and dozens of recipes for celebrations and occasions with family & friends, such as summer feasts, quick-fix feasts
The Last Samurai
`A triumph – a genuinely new story` A. S. Byatt`Destined to become a classic` Garth Risk Hallberg`The funniest book I`ve read in years` SpectatorEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludo`s been reading Greek, Arabic, Japanese and a little Hebrew since the age of four; but reading Homer
There There
One of Barack Obama`s best books of 2018, a searing novel about contemporary America from a bold new voice.Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That`s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle`s death, while Edwin is looking
Mac and His Problem
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matas`s new novel is perhaps his greatest: `playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists` Colm ToibinMac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner – delighted by
The Limehouse Golem
NOW AN UNMISSABLE FILM STARRING BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH AND OLIVIA COOKE. `Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant` Daily MailBefore the Ripper, fear had another name.London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious `Limehouse Golem` strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer
The Testaments – Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize
Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize”Gripping” Guardian”Powerful” The Times The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power but it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women come together, with potentially explosive results…”`The Testaments` is Atwood at her best… To read this book is
The Overstory – Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeA wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe”The best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period” Ann Patchett”Dazzlingly written’” Robert MacfarlaneAn artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits,
