Category Archives: Travel Guides
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World
“Heida is a force of nature… Exactly the right sort of modern role model” Sunday TimesThe inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine Heida Asgeirsdottir has become a double prize-winning international bestseller.”I`m not on my own because I`ve been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested
Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel
How the golden age of Transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women`s lives across all classes – a vivid cross section of life on-board the iconic ocean liners from below decks to the captain`s table.Migrants and millionairesses, refugees and aristocrats all looking for a way to improve their lives. After WW1 a world of opportunity
Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals
This splendid and timely book will be invaluable to those visiting the battlefields, sites, museums, memorials and cemeteries of France and Belgium. It is intended for those planning and leading school groups and similar parties but is also ideal for individual/family visitors. Rather than list every site etc it provides realistic itineraries to the best
Today`s London Underground
The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Todays London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern day rolling stock in use, which
A Visitor`s Guide to Shakespeare`s London
A fresh and colourful look at Shakespeare`s London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright`s death. Readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare`s London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved and had fun. You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth
Visiting the Fallen – Arras North
Like Ypres, Arras was a front line town throughout the Great War. From March 1916 it became home to the British Army and it remained so until the Advance to Victory was well under way. In 1917 the Battle of Arras came and went. It occupied barely half a season, but was then largely forgotten;
A Spy`s London
In `this remarkable book` (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls `the espionage capital of the World`, to remind us that the history
The London Underground Serial Killer
Fred West. Ian Brady. Harold Shipman. These names haunt the national consciousness and yet none was as prolific as the little-known `Underground Killer`, Kieran Kelly. Operating without motive or rationale he pushed sixteen souls to their deaths on the tracks of the London Underground, before vanishing back into the crowd. Geoff Platt has painstakingly researched
London Underground Timeline
London Underground Time Line is the story of the London Underground network, from 1863 to the present day. The book charts the system as it evolved from the early cut and cover Metropolitan and Metropolitan & District Rlys, through to the early deep level tubes, such as the City & South London, Hampstead, Central London
City of London in the Great War
Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain`s war effort, both at home and abroad. A far as Germany was concerned, the city was their ultimate goal – the ultimate target that would bring them the sought-after victory they so desired. With the British Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, the
On This Day in History
On which day was history`s shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain go to bed on 2nd
A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside
?South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east. Each of these different landscapes has been shaped by human activities over the centuries. This
Elevation
“A quick, satisfying read… the sign of a master simply elevating his own legendary game yet again” USA TodayIn the small town of Castle Rock word gets around quickly. That`s why Scott Carey only confides in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition. Every day he`s losing weight – but without looking any
Rails Across Britain: Thirty Years of Change and Colour
Rails Across Britain is a collection of full-size colour photographs of trains that have operated in Great Britain over the last thirty years. Compiled by a well-regarded author of several successfully published books showing many varying classes of trains throughout the world, this book covers the period from 1986 to the present day. It brilliantly
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.Stephen King hates to fly.Now he and
Biography of British Train Travel: My Journey Behind Steam and Modern Traction
Biography of British Train Travel is a collection of mainly previously unpublished articles and short stories, covering a lifelong interest in railways. It spans a wide spectrum over the years, from the early days in Kent in 1960, through the many hours on the lineside on the Surrey Hills line and the South Western main
Japanese Gardens: A Journey
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Photography Travel Book of the YearThe complement to the BBC2 series, `Japanese Gardens`: beautifully produced with over 200 original photographs by Derry Moore and written by Monty Don, the duo behind the highly-acclaimed `Paradise Gardens`.Traditional Japanese gardens combine aesthetics with ethics, beauty with philosophy in a
Homes and Experiences: From the writer of hit BBC shows Ladhood and Pls Like
`A hilarious and unexpectedly moving book` Richard Roper, author of Something to Live For`Brilliantly written, properly funny and poignant, and such a great takedown of the more absurd aspects of life in the 21st century.` Tom Ellen, author of All About Us`Liam is a writer of vast intelligence and wit as well as an excellent
Sleeping Beauties
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is
