Category Archives: Travel Guides
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner
In `Concorde`, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope
Orfeo: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of `Bewilderment`
By the atuhor of the Booker Prize Shortlisted `Bewilderment` and `The Overstory`Longlisted for the 2014 Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Folio PrizeComposer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab – the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in the most surprising places
Crazy Rich Asians
The acclaimed international bestseller soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn`t know
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world`s waterways. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by
Don`t Tell Mum: Hair-Raising Messages Home from Gap-Year Travellers
“The email home is an essential part of every gap-year backpackers journey. Where once the news of narrowly surviving a bus crash on the dirt-roads of India, waking up to gunfire in Honduras or fending off marriage proposals from complete strangers would have would have made it home only on the back of a slow-moving
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother`s rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America – from the Mojave Desert, through
The Listening Walls
A rediscovered classic of American noir — a suspenseful masterpiece about corrupted loveAmy Kellogg is not having a pleasant vacation in Mexico. She`s been arguing nonstop with her friend and traveling companion, Wilma, and she wants nothing more than to go home to California. But their holiday takes a nightmarish turn when Wilma is found
In a Strange Room
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet each
The Mystery of Henri Pick
In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it.The book is a
The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship to Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
`The Mindful Diet` is the first book to combine health psychology with cutting-edge nutrition research to deliver an up-to-the-minute method for eating mindfully and breaking the yo-yo diet cycle.Loaded with meditation exercises, behavioural techniques, nutrition advice and meal-planning charts, this book provides the tools to avoid cravings, stop emotional overeating and figure out when you
At Night All Blood is Black
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France`s German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst
Naked at Lunch: The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist
Naked at Lunch is one man`s cracklingly witty, compellingly odd and oddly life-affirming journey into the subculture of nudism. Celebrated journalist Mark Haskell Smith meets, and indeed joins, those shucking off social conventions by shucking off their clothes – he hikes bare-back in the alps with a naked rambler`s society; he buys baguettes in the
The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories
Joseph Roth`s sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas.In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows
Mazel Tov: The Story of My Extraordinary Friendship with an Orthodox Jewish Family
When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family`s Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules – `never come on a Friday, never shake hands with a man` – and quirks she had not seen before: tiny
The Marquise of O-
In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town`s citadel, in which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was rescued by Count F-, at which point she fell unconscious. Thrown out of
Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories
Although best known for his monumental novels, Tolstoy also wrote tightly compressed works of equal power. This new collection gathers perhaps his greatest novella, `The Death of Ivan Ilyich`, together with shorter masterpieces `Three Deaths`, `Pace-setter` and the fable-like story `Alyosha the Pot`.Whether writing from the perspective of an aged horse or plotting the travails
Mary Queen of Scotts
From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power struggles that shook the foundations of Renaissance Europe. Revered by some as the rightful Queen of England, reviled by others as a murderous adultress, her long and fascinating rivalry with her cousin Elizabeth I led
One Part Woman
A vibrant fable of marriage, caste and social convention from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Indian fiction”Unexpected and moving” Amitava Kumar, author of `Immigrant, Montana`”A major Indian write”` New York Times”A captivating story of love and desire” Vivek Shanbhag, author of `Ghachar, Ghochar`Kali and Ponna are perfectly content in their marriage, apart
Temptation
A hilarious and poignant rediscovered classic: the story of a young boy`s struggle and (mis)adventures as he escapes poverty in interwar BudapestBรฉla has never had much luck. Abandoned in foster care and almost starved by his guardian, he must fight for everything, from scraps of food to the right to go to school. At fourteen
Wild Swims
This is a collection resplendent with longing. In these compact pages, people meet without actually connecting, travellers set off but never seem to find home. We meet them on the fjords of Norway, in the bustle of Los Angeles, and among the lights of Copenhagen. Outsiders yearn to be on the inside, insiders are desperate
