Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Yacht Guru`s Bible: Service Manual for Every Yacht
As a yacht stew for over 20 years, Alene Keenan has traveled the world and served on world-renowned yachts, and has provided yacht owners and charter guests with the most memorable holidays imaginable.Alene shares her unique expertise, practical tips and guidelines, insider knowledge, and accompanies it all with photos, illustrations, checklists, and more. With the
Busy Baking
With lots to see and heaps to do, in Busy Baking children can join in by pushing, pulling and turning the tabs to bake some treats for a party. Collect the ingredients, beat the eggs and decorate the cake with lots of strawberries. Children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with
Death at Sea
Adapted for BBC4`s Inspector Montalbano.A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano`s investigations into Sicily`s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri`s trademark wit, and Montalbano`s typical appetite. From the title story, Death at Sea, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even
Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell`s Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance
The Darkest Day
`The Darkest Day` is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hรฅkan Nesser.It’s December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate a big family birthday. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it’s not
Animalphabet
A hugely entertaining animal ABC guessing game with peep-through pages and amazing fold-out flaps, by the bestselling Julia Donaldson, author of `The Gruffalo`, and award-winning illustrator Sharon King-Chai.With eye-catching artwork and an exotic array of animals to marvel over, this is a gorgeous book to treasure and read over and over again ‘“ can you
The Outside Lands
`Astonishing – jagged, fresh and startlingly alive` Daily Mail Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden accident that robs them of their mother leaves them adrift, with only their father to guide them. Jeannie seeks escape in work and later marriage to a man whose social connections propel her into
The Lotterys Plus One
Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets – all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is the organizer of the family and is looking forward to a long summer of fun. But when their grumpy and intolerant grandad comes to stay,
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe`s Lost Country
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year”He is a master of the art of making history both funny and fun, with never any loss of seriousness. Once again he brings Germany bouncing back to life.” Simon Jenkins, author of `A Short History of Europe`.At the heart
Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year”No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe” Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority…France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of `the French` as one nation is relatively recent and –
The London Noisy Tube
Young children will love to press the sound button and hear an authentic mind the gap message as they journey through the sights of London by tube. Visit Madam Tussauds and Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street, the Natural History and Science Museums at South Kensington and the bustling theatres at Leicester Square. With funny
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotland, and France. After most of its population
Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes
`Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes` is packed full of sweet treats, healthy snacks and simple meals – all based on the bestselling picture book `The Gruffalo` by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Is your tummy beginning to rumble? Make your own owl ice cream, scrambled snake and roasted fox, and of course… Gruffalo crumble! With
Wilding: The return of nature to an English farm
Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary PrizeHighly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize`A passionately personal, robustly argued and uplifting book . . . One of the landmark ecological books of the decade.` Sunday Times `Books of the Year`In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the `Knepp
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
In `Wilding`, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.Forced to accept that intensive farming on
Bread
Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of breaking bread together to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures
Bushcraft Illustrated: A Visual Guide
From Dave Canterbury – wilderness expert, New York Times bestselling author, and YouTube sensation – comes a fully illustrated guide to everything you need to know to hone your bushcraft, or wilderness survival skills, from types of shelter, to useful tools, to edible plants-and much more!Before you venture into the wilderness, learn exactly what you
Egg
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker`s `Egg` relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so
