Category Archives: Travel Guides
Stalin`s Meteorologist: One Man`s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was
Beautiful Animals
The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another`s lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and
Numero Zero
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce`s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a
The Litten Path
The Litten Path is a sweeping debut that provides an intimate view of the miners` strike of 1984 as it unfolds through the eyes of two families on either side of the struggle. The Litten Path is a novel of the strike as much as about the strike, knitting the intense emotional and political terrain
The Manchester Trilogy: Book 2 ZERO HOURS
In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes of his colleagues. Only after rescuing and acquiring a pet tortoise does he realise what is most lacking in his life:
The Third Reel
Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living
The Squeeze
Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceauescu, and 2013, `The Squeeze` travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this ยญmulti award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers.Marta, a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh. Mats, a Norwegian businessman, who
The Tidal Wife
Kaddy Benyon`s second collection, The Tidal Wife, is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms and as emotional states; the need to retreat and be cut off as much as the need to reconnect and come to trust the pulse of one`s internal tide. The poems address the day-to-day realities of being wife, mother, daughter,
Snegurochka
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Cicerone Fiction, with a Sense of Place”Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.”Kiev 1992. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of the apartment`s balcony, she develops obsessive rituals to
Best British Short Stories 2019
The nation`s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in
Good Day? – Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019In a world where we present our diverse selves through social media, chatbots and messaging, this dark novel listens in on intimate secrets, desires and adultery.This novel-within-a-novel charts the writing of a story about Richard and Anna, a middle-aged professional couple, who face the biggest crisis of their twenty-five-year marriage
Haverscroft
Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House in an attempt to salvage her marriage. Little does she realise, Haverscroft`s dark secrets will drive her to question her sanity, her husband and fatally engulf her family unless she can stop the past repeating itself. Can Kate keep her children safe and escape
Best British Short Stories 2021
The nation`s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.`Best British Short Stories` invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based
Bodies of Water: Working Progress, Working Title: Automystifstical Plaice
After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up and eager for the restorative calm of
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain`s Hidden Landscapes
Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Britannia Obscura is the untold story of Britain`s hidden landscapes. The outline of the British Isles, looking a little like a wingless dragon, is instantly recognisable. But jostling within that familiar profile are countless vying maps of the country. Some of these maps are founded on rock, or
Rooted in Dishonour
The fifth novel in the DI Yates series Eighteen-year-old Ayesha Verma disappears from her home in Spalding just a few days after her parents have introduced her to the cousin they`ve arranged for her to marry. There has been a nation-wide police campaign to raise awareness of `honour killings`. Conditioned by this, DI Tim Yates
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times
New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017 The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers Jen Campbell`s `Most Anticipated Books of 2017` Jean Bookish Thoughts `Most Anticipated Releases of 2017` A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923:
God`s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
This book is Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. A Times Book of the Year. An Observer Book of the Year. A woman awakes in a prison cell. She has been on the
The Chameleon
John is infinite. He can become any book, any combination of words – every thought, act and expression that has ever been, or ever will be, written. Now 800 years old, John wants to tell his story. Looking back over his life, from its beginnings with a medieval anchoress to his current lodgings beside the
The House of Journalists
A fashionable house in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is renowned around the world as a place of refuge for exiled writers who have fallen foul of oppressive regimes. Run by Julian Snowman, successful writer and broadcaster, its fellows include the newspaper editor Mr Stan whose hands were smashed with hammers; a journalist
