Category Archives: Travel Guides
First Person
From the winner of the 2014 Booker Prize.Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks.Kehlmann
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind`s Greatest Invention
Signed by the authorFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind`s greatest invention: the city.`Brilliant…enchanting` Evening Standard `Exhilarating` New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us
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,
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
`Sapiens` showed us where we came from. `Homo Deus` looked to the future. `21 Lessons for the 21st Century` explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe`s Deep Establishment
`One of the greatest political memoirs of all time` (Guardian) — The Sunday Times Number 1 BestsellerWhat happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe`s hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufakis sparked one of the
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945
“A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane”. (Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph). What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting`s pioneering study, we begin to find the answers to this age-old question. Though rarely remembered
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING…With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrere begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and
`Cherry` Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan`s Blossoms
`Sympathetic and engrossing… a portrait of great charm and sophistication` Guardian The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown EnglishmanCollingwood Ingram, known as `Cherry` for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change.
The Novels
While Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. Here we see a writer exploring human life, from its freedoms to its limits, in ever more exhilarating and unexpected ways.In On the Black Hill, twin brothers begin to realise that the world beyond their
So Much Life Left Over
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War – and its effects on their marriage – behind them.Back in England, Rosie`s sisters are dealing with impossible challenges in their searches for family,
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Hell Yes! This is one of those books that has the potential to change things ‘“ a monumental piece of research” Caitlin MoranImagine a world where’ฆ…Your phone is too big for your hand…Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body…In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.If any
Labels and Other Stories
Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. The collection includes `Gunter Weber`s Confession` which revisits characters from Captain Corelli.Full of wit, warmth and charm, Louis de Bernieres` Labels and Other Stories features tales from throughout his career as a masterful storyteller
Small Country
`A luminous debut novel… This is a book that demanded to be written… With a light touch, Faye dramatises the terrible nostalgia of having lost not only a childhood but also a whole world to war` GuardianBurundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother
The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before. We hear the
The Day the Sun Died
The reality of life in China today contrasts with the sunny optimism of the `Chinese dream` in this gripping, gruesome dystopia.One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that something strange is going on. As the residents would usually be settling down for the night, instead
