Category Archives: Travel Guides
Fried Eggs and Rioja: What to Drink with Absolutely Everything
From sofa suppers and comfort food to celebration meals and festive feasts, Victoria Moore helps you choose the wine that will taste most delicious with whatever you`re eating. Based on the bestselling `The Wine Dine Dictionary`, this new guide also includes Moore`s favourite at-home recipes, portraits of the top twelve best-loved grapes, plus quick-look lists
People in London: One Photographer. Five Years. The Life of a City.
London is one of the world`s greatest cities. Filled with people of all races, religions and nationalities, and packed with energy, it is a dynamic melting pot and a colourful testimony to the human spirit. Over five years, photographer Richard Slater has traversed the streets of the city, photographing, meeting and talking with ordinary Londoners
Hitler`s Forgotten Children: My Life Inside the Lebensborn
`More than 70 years ago I was a “gift” for Adolf Hitler. I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments: Lebensborn.` The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler: an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race, leaving behind thousands of displaced victims
I Will Never See the World Again
“The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of
Salvador
El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb `to disappear` and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign
Miami
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion`s darkest book, in which she explores American efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, Miami`s civic
OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany
Translated by Georgia ThomsonAn Ostarbeiter was an `Eastern Worker`, rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is estimated that approximately 3 million to 5.5. million Ostarbeiter were forced to work in guarded work camps, many of them younger than 16 years
The Topeka School
“To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here” Sally Rooney”An education in the sympathetic imagination, a deep and bracing intellectual challenge, a powerful political statement… This is a novel to cherish.” The Observer Guide to the Best Autumn Culture”Ben Lerner is arguably
Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and
Orwell`s Roses
“Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening” wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics
Stillicide
First heard on BBC Radio 4.Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland
Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number (two hundred and sixty five) of (mostly) very small museums. Founded in the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets or memorials to lost friends, these museums tell the story of an enchanted island where bridges arrived only at the beginning of
Imperium
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the entrance of Soviet
The Manningtree Witches – Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021- Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award”Riveting, appalling, addictive” Megan NolanEngland, 1643. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation. In Manningtree, depleted of men since the Civil War began, the women are left to their own devices and Rebecca West chafes against the drudgery of her days. But
The Wild Places
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months, while other ephemeral creatures only fly for three days. Several are virtually
Island Song
1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Protected only by her father and Nanna, Helene must carve out a life on the island for the length of the war. Forty years
The Radetzky March
`a 20th Century masterpiece`– The Telegraph`”For sheer, epic sweep, I love reading The Radetzky March… I can`t recommend it highly enough” Jeremy PaxmanSet during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history
Weather – Longlisted for the Women`s Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020″This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy” Ocean Vuong”What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I`m funny”Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a
Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are
Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances – as a husband and father with his wife and small child in tow. Kaag travels to the peaks above Sils Maria where
