Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Voyeur`s Motel
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor`s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. `Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,` the letter began, `I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to
The Enchanted Wanderer
This classic novel by Nikolai Leskov was originally published in 1873 and this Russian tale continues to reach new audiences today.
The Unfortunate Englishman
A thrilling portrait of 1960s Berlin and Krushchev`s Moscow, centring around the exchange of two spies – a Russian working for the KGB, and an unfortunate Englishman. Having shot someone in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a
Youth Without God
Originally published in 1938, Youth Without God explores the indoctrination of youth under a totalitarian regime. From the perspective of a disgruntled teacher, Horvath narrates a sinister tale of disillusionment, betrayal and dark despair. Set in a dystopian world of a pre-military camp for adolescents, names are replaced by letters; racial intolerance rages; freedom is
Wine Reads
A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney – bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden – selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine.Including
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family`s history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Emile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933,
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World`s Most Famous Museum
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they chronicle the history of Paris itself-a fascinating story that historian James
The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day and the Bridgehead
With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler s Atlantic Wall speak of the huge undertaking necessary for the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy. In this beautiful new full-color book, the reader goes on-site to the sacred battleground
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare,
Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey?
Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the midst
Pass Guard at Ypres
A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upright officer Freddy Mann, they are soon in the thick of it, burying the dead, experiencing
Mr Britling Sees it Through
A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Britling lives in the quintessentially English town of Matching`s Easy in Essex. He is a great thinker, an essayist, but most of all an optimist. When war
Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.Basho (1644-1694) a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty, is renowned in the West as the author of `Narrow Road to the Interior`, a travel diary of linked prose and
The Far Field
Winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for LiteratureShortlisted for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureAn elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman`s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning.In
Horse Crazy
The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of
Don`t Send Flowers
From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Diaz as `Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,` Don`t Send Flowers is a riveting novel centred on Carlos Trevino, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the
Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls
Irreverent and hopeful, `Solitude & Company` recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez, and of how Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez survived his own self-creation.The book is divided into two parts. In the
Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing
A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney – bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden – selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine.Including
