Category Archives: Travel Guides
Portrait of a Man
Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster`s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of
Independence: An Argument for Home Rule
Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world. Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand
Snakehead
THE FOURTH CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING PETER MAY – AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. SUFFOCATED A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror, and find out why. SUMMONED Detective Li Yan – an even more unwelcome
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Winner of the Fortnum and Mason Best Debut Food Book 2018Sunday Times Food Book of the Year and New York Times bestsellerWhile cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key principles that her fellow chefs would always fall back
Someday We`ll Tell Each Other Everything
It is summer 1990, only months after the border dividing Germany has dissolved. Maria, nearly seventeen, moves in with her boyfriend on his family farm. A chance encounter with enigmatic loner Henner, a neighbouring farmer, quickly develops into a passionate relationship. But Maria soon finds that Henner can be as brutal as he is tender
Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen
`Sous Chef` takes you behind the swinging doors of a busy restaurant kitchen, putting you in chef`s shoes for an intense, high-octane twenty-four hours. Follow him from the moment he opens the kitchen in the morning, as he guides you through the meticulous preparation, the camaraderie in the hours leading up to service and the
A Journey To Nowhere
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is
Philosophy in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
Philosophy in Minutes distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections. The core information for every topic – including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx, and introductions to morality and ethics.It is explained in straightforward language, using illustrations to
Economics in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
Economics in Minutes condenses key economics concepts into 200 short and easily digested essays. Featuring not only fundamental ideas, such as the role of money and how the stock market works, but also subjects that are increasingly important to us today including unemployment, government debt and corporate tax avoidance.Key topics are succinctly described and accompanied
Rituals
In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned lends him the curiousity, and impartiality, to survey others` lives and rountines. Inni`s opposite, the one-eyed downhill skier Arnold Taads measures his life by the clock,
In The Dutch Mountains
A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous Alpine ranges in the south. Kai and Lucia are circus illusionists, and when Kai is kidnapped, Lucia must rescue him from the
The Saffron Trail
Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic. After the death of her beloved mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the colour and chaos of Marrakech. Her marriage may be on the rocks, but exploring the heady delights
Look Who`s Back
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break
Judges
Camilleri, best known for his Inspector Montalbano series, presents the charming Judge Surra who moves to a small Sicilian town in the late nineteenth century. He does not quite understand the quirky welcoming gifts from the locals, but nothing stands in the way of his quest for justice – and pastries. Lucarelli brings us a
Elephant Complex
Stanfords Adult Book of the Month August 2016Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its regions – some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes –
An Englishman in Madrid
Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be
The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
When the manager of the village bar absconds, a succession of would-be heirs descend – with disastrous results. One by one, they are seen off by adultery, insolvency or the outraged morals of the general community, until Matthieu and Libero, native sons disillusioned with their philosophical studies, return to take up the reins. At first
All Over Creation
Yumi Fuller hasn`t set foot in her parents` farm in Idaho since she ran away when she was fifteen. Now, twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter – and now a struggling single mother of three – is returning home, desperate to win back the love of her ailing father and to confront her best friend
They Eat Horses, Don`t They?: The Truth About the French
The centuries-old, love-hate relationship with our closest neighbour has spawned a plethora of myths and stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French – land of the sophisticated lover, the wine-fuelled lunch, the gitane-puffing philosopher, the hairy female armpit and the rebarbatively squalid toilet – has been replenished by a new
Classical Civilization: A History in Ten Chapters
A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilisation, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of
