Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
History of Violence
The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violenceI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his
Only to Sleep
Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe’s name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure?The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is living out his retirement sipping margaritas and playing cards when in saunter two men dressed
Heads of the Colored People
“Makes you shake your head in delight… Her stories feel simultaneously like the poke of a stick and a comforting balm; a smack followed by a kiss. I`m so into it” Bim Adewunmi, Guardian`Heads of the Colored People` interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens black Americans,
Mcglue
They said I`ve done something wrong?…And they`ve just left me down here to starve. Haven`t had a drop in days more so…Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation – he may have killed a man. That man may have been his
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
Now a major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds – often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through the new world of international organised crime, from gunrunners in Ukraine to money launderers in Dubai, by
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse`s Story
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever` Adam Kay, author of This is Going to HurtChristie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the
The Eight Mountains
The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn
Smoke and Ashes
`Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjee`s best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil – beautifully crafted.` CJ SANSOM**From the winner of the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award**India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he
Bee Quest
A hunt for the world`s most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places hidden right under our noses: the abandoned industrial estates where great crested newts roam; or the rewilded estate at Knepp Castle, where, with the aid of some hairy, bluebell-eating Tamworth
Ghosts Of The Tsunami
**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**’You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.’ Economist ‘A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.’ Times Literary Supplement’A future classic of disaster journalism.’ ObserverOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea
Midwinter Break
Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what remains of their lives. But amongst the wintry streets and icy canals we see their relationship fracturing beneath the surface. And when memories re-emerge of a troubled
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail
Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter`s brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively
The Thirst: Harry Hole 11
THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job.
On Chesil Beach
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of
Nutshell
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She`s still in the marital home ‘“ a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse ‘“ but not with John. Instead, she`s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy`s womb.
Hame
Hame, n. Scottish form of `home`: a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of originAfter her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write the biography of Grigor McWatt, the
The Schooldays of Jesus
When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and
Men Without Women: Stories
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same
