Category Archives: Travel Guides
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
`Uproariously readable … Levy is a master of the group biography` Sunday Times`Teeming with satisfying gossipy details` Guardian`Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday` TLS1950s Rome. From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, style, boldfaced libertinism and titillating journalism. It`s the heyday of
The Woman on the Stairs
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her
The Complete Michael Palin Diaries.
Here are all three volumes of Michael Palin`s bestselling diaries, covering 30 years from 1969 to 1998. All three are boxed together and Michael Palin has signed the back.Volume I: 1969-79 The Python YearsVolume II: 1980-88 Halfway to HollywoodVolume III: 1988-98 Travelling to WorkThroughout his years in Monty Python, his many successful film appearances, the
Don`t Let Go
Picture the scene – an idyllic resort on the island of Reunion. Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze…Then Liane Bellion disappears. She went up to her hotel room between 3 and 4pm and never came back. When the room
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain`s Health
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation`s health, they warned; drugs, blood and medical resources would be in short supply; air raid shelters and evacuation would spread diseases; and the psychological effects of bombing raids would
The History of Wolves
How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda `Freak`, or `Commie`. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved
History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker PrizeFourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, she is mostly left to her own devices. So when a young family – mother, father and their little boy, Paul
The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of Nations
The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world`s leading financial centre. In the 19th century a vast
Belgravia: A Tale of Secrets and Scandal Set in 1840s London from the Creator of Downton Abbey
Julian Fellowes`s Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London`s grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on
A Steam Engine Pilgrimage
Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has travelled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendour of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives ever built. He
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Which lines on the map matter most? It`s time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. In Connectography, Parag Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity and borders are increasingly irrelevant. Travelling across the world, Khanna shows how twenty-first-century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and
England`s Historic Churches by Train: A Companion Volume to England`s Cathedrals by Train
The second millennium saw the spread and consolidation of Christianity in Britain. One means by which the Normans tightened their grip on Britain after 1066 was by the construction of magnificent cathedrals, thereby demonstrating their intention to remain here. In his earlier book – England`s Cathedrals by Train – Murray Naylor explained how these hallowed
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace meant Roman victory
London Underground Serial Killer: The Life of Kieran Kelly
The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains, and who finished up killing over thirty people. The book provides a
Question Time: A Journey Round Britain`s Quizzes
Which major UK retailer has the same name as Odysseus`s dog in Greek mythology?In the original version of the Band Aid hit `Do They Know It`s Christmas?`, who sang the opening line?Which is the only US state whose name can be typed on a single row of a QWERTY keyboard?Travel writer and quiz fan Mark
London Curiosities: The Capital`s Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places
London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in
Around Britain by Canal: 1,000 Miles of Waterways
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns.It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as the book clearly demonstrates. The
London`s Gangs at War
The 1950s and 1960s saw a changing of the guard in Londons gangland. A new and even more ruthless breed of criminal emerged to replace the ageing generation of likes of Sabini, Mullins and Hayes. Protection rackets on bookies, club owners and shops were commonplace. Prostitution and drugs offered rich pickings. Police corruption was all
Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste
Winner of the Women`s History Network Prize 2014 Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015 Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine, Anti-Caste. Published monthly from 1888, Anti-Caste published articles that exposed and condemned racial prejudice across the
Barbarians
It`s 1977. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high and the pound is at an all-time low. Paul, Jan and Louis are bored, broke and demoralized by the hand that they`ve been dealt. How will these young lads fair with the odds stacked against them? How will they cope? Cut off from society with no-where
