Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Story of Jane Austen: The Girl with the Golden Pen
In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned quietly into a genius… The modest, obedient youngest daughter of the Reverend Austen was to grow up to be one of the
The Good Stuff: Delicious recipes and tips for happier and healthier children
With child obesity on the rise, and more and more young people struggling with anxiety, mood swings, learning and behavioural issues, this is a timely, important book. Bombarded by advice about healthy eating, many parents are left confused: Lucinda Miller offers the lowdown on everything, from which fats are good and which are bad, the
The Story of Emily Davison: The Woman Who Died for the Right to Vote
Emily was angry. She worked as hard as any man, but she couldn`t change laws that affected her – laws made by men. Because women didn`t have the right to vote. She and the other suffragettes had patiently put their argument to the government, but they were ignored. Now it was time for direct action:
A Nazi in the Family: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany
WARTIME BERLIN: The Niemann family – Karl, Minna and their four children – live in a quiet, suburban enclave. Every day Karl commutes to work, a business manager travelling around inspecting his “factories”. In the evenings he returns home to life as a normal family man.Three years ago Derek Niemann, born and raised in Scotland,
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A memoir
Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspiration and types “secondhand bookshop Scotland” into Google…Soon, Jessica finds herself halfway across the world, in Wigtown on the west coast Scotland, working for the handsome
Two Weeks in November: The Astonishing Untold Story of the Operation That Toppled Mugabe
`Two Weeks in November` is the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies – a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer – who team up to help unseat one of Africa`s longest serving dictators, Robert Mugabe.
The Imperial Tea Party
Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria`s favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian entente that would last until the Russian Revolution of 1917. `The Imperial Tea Party` draws back the curtain on the three extraordinary meetings that took place
Stronghold: One Man`s Quest to Save the World`s Wild Salmon – Before It`s Too Late
Salmon, one of the most determined, single-minded creatures on earth, have for hundreds of thousands of years succeeded in returning from the sea to their birth rivers to spawn – no matter the conditions or obstacles. But in recent years increasingly fewer are returning due to steady incursions into their habitat from dams, industry, and
The Secret Life of Snow: The Science and the Stories Behind Nature`s Greatest Wnder
How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman? Where is the snowiest place on Earth? When will the last snowflake fall? Snow has a lot in common with religion. It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an alternative reality and brings on irrational behaviour in humans. But unlike most religions, snow
Lost Luggage
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers – sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others` existence. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona and they share the fact that their father, Gabriel Delacruz – a truck driver – abandoned them when they
Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal
“Things of such magnitude deserve respect and understanding. They deserve to be remembered…”Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small wonders of the wood behind her home in Devon. This book is an exact replica of her original black Moleskin journal, a rich illustrated memory of
The Beggar and the Hare
Vatanescu, an impoverished construction worker, wants a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. So he decides to head north to a cold, dark country where there is money to be made. Taking up with a Russian human trafficker, he joins the bottom rung of a begging ring in Finland.
The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life
“Inspirational” – The Daily Mail”Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace is a balm for our troubled times. I loved every page
D-Day: Minute by Minute
The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the people swept up in this crucial moment in history. From soldiers, French villagers and journalists, to schoolchildren and nurses, thousands were placed in extraordinary situations when the Allies landed
Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent
Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent provides a ground-breaking new account of the expedition which finally conquered the world’s highest peak. Drawing on first-hand interviews and unprecedented access to archives, the author Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was actually beset by crisis
TEN MILLION ALIENS
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It`s weirder than we are capable of imagining.And we`re all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven`t had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears:
A Paris Christmas: An Improbable Tale of Good Food and True Love
A Paris Christmas is the charming tale of how a man who was raised on white bread – and didn`t speak a word of French – unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Having fallen in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to
Hitler`s Last Day: Minute by Minute
On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos…Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move – concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis – and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who orchestrated this nightmare is in his bunker beneath the capital, saying his
Ordnance Survey The Great British Colouring Map: A Colouring Journey Around Britain
Colour your way around Britain with this exclusive book in association with the Ordnance Survey. The first colouring book based on official OS maps, it has 55 maps including iconic cities, recognisable tourist spots and historical locations across England, Scotland and Wales via plus a huge double size fold out map of central London and
Match a Track: Match 25 Animals to Their Paw Prints
Show off your best animal-tracking skills in this brilliant matching game. The task is to match 25 tracks to their animal owners. Has an elephant just crossed your path or was it an echidna? Can you track down a coyote, make out the trail of a peacock and recognise the paw-print of a panda? Beat
