Category Archives: Travel Guides
Bees and Their Keepers: Through the seasons and centuries, from waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping – packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift.Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moeller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees` natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject
Adolphe (riverrun editions)
`One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.`From Richard Sieburth`s preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fatal dance of self-destruction. In what is one of the earliest
A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible: A Heartwarming Tale of Love Amid War
A moving novel of love and war by the author of `The Beekeeper of Aleppo`It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance
Love in Five Acts
Five women attempt the impossible – to love, to be strong, and to stay true to themselves.Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn`t stop her looking for love online. Brida is a writer with no
The Road Trip: The heart-warming new novel from the author of The Flatshare and The Switch
`Joyful and uplifting` Sheila O`Flanagan`O`Leary`s best yet` Gillian McAllister`A charming, heartfelt story of love found and love potentially lost` Laura Jane Williams`This book is perfect` Rosie Walsh`So romantic and moving and brilliantly told` Louise O`Neill`O`Leary does it again! The Road Trip is another sure-fire hit, filled with characters you won`t forget` Mike Gayle`An achingly tender
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars
From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author`s favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly you need a huge telescope. There are big stars, small stars,
Lockdown: the crime thriller that predicted a world in quarantine
`They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren`t good.`A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law
The Man Who Loved Islands: Sixteen Stories by D H Lawrence
“Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence`s bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox`s brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace” Frances Wilson, from her Introduction to `The Man Who Loves Islands`The
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland
A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland.If `Clanlands` was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up the book to join us on a crazy camper van
An Inventory of Losses
“A cabinet of curiosities that can be dipped into with pleasure and profit” RUPERT CHRISTIANSENJudith Schalansky`s strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands
Madame Burova: the new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things
`Supremely upliftng …an absolute gem` – MIKE GAYLE `Stunning, immersive and absolutely wonderful` – ANNIE LYONS `Woke up early to finish this breathtakingly beautiful story … absolutely wonderful` – CELIA ANDERSONMadame Burova – Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years.Imelda Burova has spent a
The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind
“I absolutely loved this magnificent book” Sebastian Junger”[An] immersive, densely reported and altogether remarkable first book… `The Last Whalers` has the texture and colouring of a first-rate novel” New York TimesAt a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, `The Last Whalers` tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient
A Vagabond for Beauty: A John Murray Journey
INTRODUCED BY PAUL KINGSNORTH, Booker-shortlisted author of The Wake`I thought that there were two rules in life – never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.` Artist and wanderer Everett Ruess left home at the age of sixteen to immerse himself in the
Mississippi Solo: John Murray Journeys
INTRODUCED BY ADAM WEYMOUTH, award-winning author of The Kings of Yukon`A wonderful book — and a highly original contribution to the literature of travel` PAUL THEROUX`The Mississippi. Mighty, muddy, dangerous, rebellious and yet a strong, fathering kind of river. The river captured my imagination when I was young and has never let go.` Mississippi Solo
Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey – from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, `Burning the Books` shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself. “A wonderful book, full of good stories and
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the figure stands at less than half that. Meanwhile in the span of a lifetime, the human population has more than doubled. In Levison Wood`s `The Last Giants`, he explores the rapid decline of one of the
Eat, Gay, Love: `You`ve never read a travel memoir like this before` (SUNDAY TIMES `Pride Culture Guide`)
`You`ve never read a travel memoir like this before` The Sunday Times, `Pride Culture Guide`Sweet and fun, with real emotional depth and a rousing, feisty spirit`Matt Cain***In the spring of 2012, Calum finds himself single again after his relationship of six years comes to an end. Heartbroken, unhappy and unsure of what to do next,
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
`The Great Successor` is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world`s most secretive dictators. Kim`s life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly–he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way–to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his
Starve Acre
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby`s son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place.Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly
Outlandish: Walking Europe`s Unlikely Landscapes
Signed by the authorIn Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent`s largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe`s only true desert in Spain; and
