Category Archives: Travel Guides
Heroes in the Evening Mist
War correspondent Colin Frere is on assignment in Malia, a Southeast Asian stateconsumed by civil conflict and revolution. He is abducted by the Communistguerrillas – actually by prearrangement. His mission is to understand the rebels andtheir charismatic leader – not least because his own elder brother once foughtalongside them. But he soon finds that idealism
Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England
In this book Ian Crofton makes a journey on foot from Gretna Green in the southwest to Berwick in the northeast, following as close as possible the Anglo-Scottish Border as it has been fixed since the union of the crowns in 1603. Much of the line of the Border runs through a wild, overwhelmingly unvisited
Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa
Check-in… To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday`s guests still lurk. Check-in… Lovers, aid workers, businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers,
Scotland`s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between highland and lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and farming. In
Vegan Love Story: Tibits and Hiltl: The Cookbook
Beautiful, delicious, innovative vegan restaurant dishes for you to embrace at home. `The Vegan Love Story` comes from two families sharing their expertise and passion for vegetarian and vegan cuisine: the Hiltl family, founders, in 1898, of the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the world in Zurich, and the Frei brothers of tibits, the award-winning restaurant
Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
A jailer`s love poems ghost-written by a prisoner… Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community… Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich… A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry…A sparkling anthology of short stories featuring the first twenty winners of the Caine Prize, Africa`s premier
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020
The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020 shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are: Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for Fisherman`s Stew, Remy Ngamije (Rwanda/Namibia) for The Neighbourhood Watch and Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria) for Grace Jones.The 2020 judging panel comprises: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp (Chair) has over 35 years` experience in
Hell of a Journey
`Hell of a Journey` describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. On one level it is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek – never attempted before – on another it celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the
Haggis Bible
Scotland`s National dish is the source of endless jokes and horror stories, yet continues to provoke curiosity around the world. With an ancient history and an eight-verse tribute penned by Robert Burns, haggis is a Scottish cultural icon. So how did it come to acquire its bad boy image and earn such mixed reviews, ranging
The Cairngorms: A Secret History
Secret Histories of the Cairngorms is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the
African Violet Caine Prize For African Writing 2012
Five short stories about Africa that the annual Caine Prize awards to authors for their stories which they are then published in this annual book.
The Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook
The Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook introduces a global spread of delicious low-impact vegetarian dishes. There`s something particularly enticing about a meal made up of several `small` dishes, as with Middle Eastern mezze or Spanish tapas. Troth Wells has taken this style of cooking and enjoying food and given it an exciting global dimension. Western livestock-rearing
Global Vegetarian Kitchen, The
The Global Vegetarian Kitchen starts from where you are, whether you only have a windowbox with some herbs, or an allotment, yard or other space to grow things. There are recipes for dishes you can make from your own garden, as well as popular foods from all parts of the world. With an emphasis on
Caine Prize For African Writing 2013
Now in its fourteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa`s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2013 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers` Workshop, taking place
Mail Obsession: A Journey Round Britain by Postcode
Each of the United Kingdom`s 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and treasure. Mark Mason has embarked on a tour of the country, immersing himself in Britain`s history on a roundabout journey from AB to ZE. On the lookout for interesting place names and unusual monuments, along
Under an African Sky: Journey to Africa`s Climate Frontline
The Sahel – the `shore` of the Sahara – is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest,
White Mountain
Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world`s religions. They are also a plant hunter`s paradise, a climber`s challenge, and a traveller`s
Identity: New Short Fiction from Africa
African Identities are too often defined for us and not by us. The call for this anthology asked writers from the continent and the diaspora for “innovativeshort fiction that explores identity, especially (but not limited to) the themesof gender identity and sexuality; that looks beyond the boundaries of expectation, into the truest definitions of ourselves.”This
The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979
Michael Palin`s diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner …Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates
Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing: 2018
This collection brings together the five 2018 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers` Workshop, taking place April 2018.The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the
