Category Archives: Travel Guides
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
The Times Memoir of the Year 2019″Discretion and honour emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner`s career as a royal servant, culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind” Guardian”I couldn`t put it down. Funny and touching – like looking through a keyhole at a lost world.” Rupert EverettThe remarkable life of
Soledad: From the Women`s Prize shortlisted author of `Dominicana`
“Nobody`s ever really given us such a revealing look at New York`s Dominican population before… Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights into family life” LA TimesAt eighteen, Soledad couldn`t get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she`s an
Let it Rain Coffee: From the Women`s Prize shortlisted author of Dominicana
Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home help and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Connolly`s raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you`d expect` Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played
The Whispering Muse
Translated from Icelandic by Victoria CribbThe year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilisation, has had the singular good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea.Among the crew is the mythical hero
The Art of Exploration: Lessons in Curiosity, Leadership and Getting Things Done Signed Copy
Signed by the author`Forget routine; now is the time to embrace the unknown, step out of your comfort zone and open the gateway to the Art of Exploration.`Britain`s best loved adventurer` (The Times) talks about his secrets of discovery for the first time in this revealing manual of what it means to be an explorer
The Making of Mrs Petrakis: A Novel of One Family, Two Countries
Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s… the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible thing, war. Against this backdrop of war and violence, the island`s inhabitants make the best they can of their lives, building friendships, falling in love, having children, watching people
The Dickens Boy
By the Booker-winning author of Schindler`s Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens` son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales, Edward discovers that his father`s fame has reached even there, as has
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe`s biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is there
My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors – A Journey of Discovery
Emperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle. They march up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They choose to breed in the depths of the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they introduce
Hot Stew: the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of `Elmet`
“Ambitious, clever, brilliant and very funny… If `Elmet` announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, `Hot Stew` confirms Mozley as a writer of extraordinary empathic gifts” Observer “A dazzling Dickensian tale… In an age when so many novelists of Mozley`s generation take refuge in the dystopian, she has reinvigorated large-scale social
The Drop & The List
Two Slough House Novellas**THE DROP**`It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today` Sunday ExpressOld spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he
The Catch: A Slough House Novella 2
`This tightly plotted tragicomedy will provide a welcome fix for addicts awaiting Herron`s seventh Jackson Lamb novel` The Times`Packed with Herron`s trademark witty one-liners and sardonic humour . . . it`s clear why Herron is a force to be reckoned with and the best thriller writer in Britain today` Daily Express`A slim serio-comic offering .
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth
`An extraordinary story – so cadenced and so moving.` — Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes`An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings – a journey across a long, complex and deeply painful arc of history, grippingly told – a wonderful melding of the personal and the political, the family and the
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
“An almost unbelievable story of bravery, endeavour, and humanity… you won`t be able to put it down.” Dermot O`Leary”Merriman takes us inside not only the tunnel, but also the personal lives of those who dug it. We feel we`re experiencing history as it happens. It`s a gripping story of bravery, determination and, ultimately, love.” Lindsey
Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and Revised to Celebrate the Author`s 75th Year
“Always the leader and always the best” Bear Grylls “Fiennes has so much to fit in, it`s a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring” Compass Magazine”Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped… compelling” Time OutSir Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous
Dining with the Durrells: Stories and Recipes from the Cookery Archive of Mrs Louisa Durrell
`We lolled in the sea until it was time to return for tea, another of Mother`s gastronomic triumphs. Tottering mounds of hot scones; crisp paper-thin biscuits; cakes like snowdrifts, oozing jam; cakes dark, rich and moist, crammed with fruit; brandy snaps brittle as coral and overflowing with honey. Conversation was almost at a standstill; all
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWith a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky.As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the real thing is even greater than fiction. Clanlands is the story of their
The Blue Fox
Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize `Enchantingly poetic . . . spellbinding . . . magical . . . exceptional` Independent The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. From there we`re transported to the world of
