Category Archives: Travel Guides
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched, and now newly updated, up-to-the-minute biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking`s remarkable life – his childhood, the heart-rending beginning
I Am An Island: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Memoir of the year` – Vogue`A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose` Sunday Times`A fascinating memoir` – Daily MailWhen Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the
Enter the Aardvark: `Deliciously astute, fresh and terminally funny` GUARDIAN
`It`s a long time since I have enjoyed a novel so much. Fresh, witty and smart it also has a heart.` KATE ATKINSON `Sizzles with uproarious fun, from its snout to the sting in its tale.` INDEPENDENT`The perfect tonic for testing times.` GUARDIANWe all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down
Three Women and a Boat: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Title
Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym`Life-affirming and funny` GOOD HOUSEKEEPING`Bittersweet and charming` MAIL ON SUNDAYMeet Eve, who has departed from her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers…
`Endlessly fascinating.` – Bill Bryson `Eye-opening, informative and very funny!` – Chris Packham`Well-informed and downright funny` – Richard DawkinsHistory is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney. But when it comes to understanding animals, we’ve got a long way to go. Whether we’re watching a viral
Into the Water
Just days before her sister plunged to her death, Jules ignored her call.Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules must return to her sister`s house to care for her daughter, and to face the mystery of Nel`s death.But Jules is afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of this
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
READ THE REAL STORIES OF THE FIVE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER- THE No. 5 Sunday Times BESTSELLER- A New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine and Independent Summer read/History Book of the Year – LONGLISTED for the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION- SHORTLISTED for the Crime Writers`
Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond
Ponds: small bodies of water, both naturally formed and artificial, home to wondrous, multitudinous life-forms. Ponds define our childhood: frogspawn, goldfish, feeding the ducks, but also our village life, our farms, our landscape. And they are multi-layered – from carp circling the bottom to water boatmen, coot, and birds dragonflies overhead. In `Still Water`, John
The Waiter
`Delicious` New York Times `As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis . . . brilliantly exquisite . . . This book is a meal you won`t want to finish.` J. Ryan Stradal`A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.` Mail
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Written in diary format, `The Wood` is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul.For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt wood, a particular wood – three and half acres of mixed woodland in south
Expectation
“Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist`” The Guardian”A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition” Pandora SykesWhat happened to the women we were supposed to become?Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Book of 2020
Signed by the authorShortlisted for the 2021 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year in association with the Authors` Club.A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent BOOK OF 2020Now with colour photography by Michael Turek`Richly absorbing… An impressive exploration of Siberia`s terrifying past.` Guardian`Evocative and wonderfully original.` Colin Thubron Siberia`s
A Ladder to the Sky
`A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.` Hannah Beckerman, Observer*You`ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it`s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and
The Translation of Love
During the American occupation, the citizens of Japan were encouraged to apply directly to General MacArthur – “if you have a problem, write a letter, this is what democracy means” – and so write they did. MacArthur received over 500,000 letters, letters of entreaty, rage, gratitude, complaint, even adoration. Twelve-year-old Fumi Tanaka has a problem
Notes from a Small Island
In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
`The January Man` is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder’s ‘The January Man’. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he travels the country ‘“ from the
A Walk In The Woods: The World`s Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike
In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
`I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to` And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn`t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson`s first travel book, `The Lost Continent`, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In `Neither Here nor There` he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backback, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring such dangers – and yet
