Category Archives: Travel Guides
Wild Places: Wales` Top 40 Nature Sites
Television naturalist Iolo Williams picks his favourite forty from the many nature reserves in Wales. From the Great Orme to Magor Marsh, from Oxwich on the Gower to Gronant Dunes, Williams criss-crosses Wales. His list includes coastal sites from estuaries to inaccessible cliffs plus Skomer and other islands valleys, mountains, meadows, bogs, woods and former
Just You and the Page: Encounters with Twelve Writers
`Just You and the Page` opens in 1971, with the dramatist Michael Wall hammering out his plays on a portable typewriter. It concludes in 2020, when the novelist and academic Josie Barnard is teaching students to compose novels on Instagram. Between them are Booker prize winners; a poet whose life was changed by a profound
Quick Travel Puzzles
This selection of word games, quizzes, spatial conundrums and number games is designed to provide diversion and entertainment while on the move. In addition to more than 90 individual riddles, tests and problems there is a challenging `mind maze` of 60 linked brainteasers.
Long Live the King
December 1901: With London Society in a frenzy of anticipation for the coronation of the new king, Edward VII, the Earl and Countess of Dilberne are caught up in lavish preparations. Yet Lady Isobel still has ample time to fret, and no wonder with a new heir on the way, an elopement, family tragedy, a
The Rise of Rome
Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the eighth century BC, through various forms of patrician government, up to Caesar`s victory in the Civil War that defeated the Roman Republic
Restoration: 1666: A Year in Britain
In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell`s Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a fascinating portrait of a country in the throes of social, political and cultural change
A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian`s Wall, AD 130
It is AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire and Hadrian its most complex and compelling ruler. Faraway Britannia is one of the Romans` most troublesome provinces: here the sun is seldom seen and `the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy`. What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you
Traitor`s Gate
Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the roar of tanks through empty streets; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco`s bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell. Arriving in his mother`s country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. Even
The Mangle Street Murders
Gower Street, London, 1882. Sidney Grice, London`s most famous personal detective, is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea, and glances outside, where a young, plain woman picks her way between the piles of horse-dung towards his front door. Sidney Grice shudders. For heaven`s sake – she is wearing brown shoes.
Rome: Eternal City
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history.”Vivid, pacey… Superb” The Times. “Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading” Guardian. From Romulus and Remus to the films of Fellini, Rome has always exerted a hold on the world`s imagination. Now Ferdinand Addis brings the city of Rome to
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany`s ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of `invasion scare` literature. Then when shots rang out in Sara-jevo on
The Curse of the House of Foskett
125 Gower Street, 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London`s most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emerging in the evenings for a little dry toast and
London: A City in Pictures
London: A City in Pictures forms a tour of the city`s historic streets of medieval and classical architecture, sumptuous palaces and distinctive bridges, and modern skyscrapers such as The Shard. This comprehensive and fully updated tourist memento presents a visual guide to the city`s pomp and pageantry, celebrations, carnivals, and glittering night life. It celebrates
Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 1
Outdoor Photographer of the Year is a stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2015 competition. Among a sea of excellent images, these are the photographs that exhibit that elusive extra dimension which elevates an image to greatness. The book offers a tour of the world`s extreme environments captured by those
From Dawn to Dusk: Mastering the Light in Landscape Photography
This photography guide has a unique structure that leads the reader on an hour-by-hour, picture-by-picture journey from dawn to dusk, and then on into the night. Each chapter focuses on the benefits and challenges of shooting in the available light at a particular time of the day, highlighting suitable landscape types, styles of photography and
Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio III
Outdoor Photographer of the Year: Portfolio III presents a stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2017 Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition. Featuring over 150 images from entrants based all around the world, it captures the magnificent diversity of our planet. A breathtaking variety of images is accompanied by detailed
British Wildlife Photography Awards 9
This dazzling collection showcases the very best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards, presenting over 150 of the winning, commended and shortlisted images from the 2017 competition. Featuring a range of photography from world-leading professionals as well as inspired amateurs, it is a book that captures the magnificent diversity of the British Isles. Now in
London`s Lost Battlefields
London`s Lost Battlefields hides the ghosts of bloodshed and rebellion from Boudicca to the devastating but little known Zeppelin attacks of the First World War. The Peasant`s Revolt of 1381 saw murder and plunder in central London, notably at The Savoy, where the present day hotel is located laid claim to thirty-two rebels who whilst
London the World`s Longest Dot-to-Dot Puzzle
Following the huge success of Ilex`s 1000 Dot-to-Dot series, we bring you the longest and most satisfying dot-to-dot puzzle ever! This beautifully designed hardback book concertinas into a stunning frieze of no fewer than 3000 dots, providing several satisfying hours of mindful dot-joining fun. The perfect souvenir of your trip to London, this fabulous original
