Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Snowman: Harry Hole 7 (Film tie-in)
36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDESoon the first snow will comeA young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf ‘“ wrapped around the neck of a snowman.And then he will appear againDetective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years.And
Montpelier Parade
Her house is on Montpelier Parade ‘“ just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Sonny is fixing a crumbling wall in the garden when he sees her for the first time, coming down the path towards him. Vera. Vera is older, wealthier, sophisticated, but chance meetings quickly become shy arrangements,
A Necessary Evil
India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham is visiting the kingdom of Sambalpore, home to diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun.But when the Maharaja’s eldest son is assassinated, Wyndham realises that the realm is riven with conflict. Prince Adhir was unpopular with religious groups, while his brother ‘“ now in line to the throne
The Parisian – Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Fiction, With a Sense of Place
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Fiction, with a Sense of PlaceLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction”A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful” Zadie Smith “`The Parisian` is a gripping historical novel, a poignant romance, and a revelatory family epoch. Above
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
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we`re going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out –
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Travel Memoir of the YearThe gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsMarie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the
Paris Echo
`The most impressive novelist of his generation` Sunday TelegraphIn Paris every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past… American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under
Blue Dog
When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust. However, after
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
From the winner of the 2014 Booker PrizeIn the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood
Three Tigers, One Mountain
`The next Bill Bryson` New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain – Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an answer, Michael Booth journeys across East Asia to explore the mutual animosity that frequently threatens
Spoils
It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for
The Noise of Time
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
Winner of the Wanderlust Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN`S BEST BOOKS OF 2018**Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain.The mysterious Ghost Orchid blooms in near darkness among rotting leaves on the forest floor. It blends into the background to the point of invisibility, yet glows, pale and ghostly.
The Shadow District
The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur IndridasonTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavรญk, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as ‘the shadow district’. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer.THE PRESENTAn elderly man is
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places
A timely collection of the best British nature writing newly commissioned by one of the great authorities on the subject.We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. How do we make our way through the ruins that we
Porno (Trainspotting 2)
Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting. Years on from Trainspotting, Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the
