Category Archives: Travel Guides
It: film tie-in edition of Stephen King`s IT
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – Stephen King`s terrifying classic.`They float…and when you`re down here with me, you`ll float, too.`To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live.It is the children who
Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money
`A great subject for a cultural anthropologist and Bewes is a perfect guide` Financial Times, Book of the YearA brand new edition of the international bestseller, with new sections on the Swiss elections, the Swiss citizenship test and how Brexit has affected Switzerland. One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only
Kilted Yoga: THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER – yoga laid bare
FROM THE VIRAL YOGA STAR43 MILLION VIEWS IN JUST FIVE DAYS`Yoga can feel elitist but the book does not alienate. Partly because of its gentle humour, and partly because the language does not assume any knowledge of terms or sequences. It`s straightforward and to the point. And the scenery beats a sterile yoga studio.` –
Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World
Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them away and then steal their dinner. In the songs of many species of birds, and in skin patterns of squid, we find grammatical structures…If you are lucky, you might meet an animal that wants
The Odysseum: Strange journeys that obliterated convention
Explore the extraordinary stories behind some of the greatest – and strangest – adventures and explorations in human history.
Queenie Malone`s Paradise Hotel
An uplifting novel of mothers and daughters, families and secrets and the astonishing power of friendship, from the bestselling author of `The Keeper of Lost Things`. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran
Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.In 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London:… I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE
The Year Without Summer: 1816 – one event, six lives, a world changed
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2020`A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER` Guardian`SUPERB…BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN…UNFORGETTABLE` FT Weekend`SKILFUL` Sunday Times `RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED` Observer `VIVIDLY REALISED` The Times`A VISION OF THE PAST AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE` Irish Times`A VIVID SLICE OF HISTORICAL FICTION` Sunday Express1815, Sumbawa Island, IndonesiaMount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic
Walking to Jerusalem: Blisters, Hope and Other Facts on the Ground
2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin Butcher – along with ten other companions for the full route, plus another hundred
Moscow, Midnight
Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos – cynical, cantankerous and overweight – and something about his friend`s death doesn`t seem right. Then days after Macready`s flat is apparently burgled, Swift
Our Friends in Beijing
Old friends, new enemiesJon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. When, for the first time in years,
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
“Superbly explained” Washington Post”Fascinating” Sunday Times”Engrossing” Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution – from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America`s emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan
Two Steps Forward: a tale of love, self-acceptance and blisters
A smart, funny novel of second chances and reinvention from the author of `The Rosie Project` – two misfits walk 2,000 km along the Camino to find themselves and, perhaps, each other. Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France.
An English Christmas
`If I could work my will,` said Scrooge indignantly, `Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.`This year go carol-singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend church with a grumpy Samuel Pepys. Make
Swim Wild: Dive Into the Natural World and Discover Your Inner Adventurer
Brothers Jack, Calum and Robbie have been swimming together their whole lives, and have never lost the sense of wonder, excitement and relief that getting in open water brings. In this book, we learn about their swimming feats, from tackling the 145km River Eden to setting the world record for swimming in the Arctic. They
France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
`For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own` DAILY TELEGRAPHI can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child
Paradise Gardens: A Journey from India and Turkey to Morocco and Spain
A journey through some of the world`s most stunning gardens from Spain and Morocco to Turkey and India. An exploration of the beauty of Islamic gardens around the world with text by Monty Don stunningly illustrated with photographs by Derry Moore. In the Islamic tradition, a garden is a shaded place for rest and reflection
Rag and Bone: A History of What We`ve Thrown Away
`Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book` RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers. In a series of walks from
Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist
Following the success of the original `Zoo Quest` expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to record not
Teach Yourself to Fly: The Classic Guide to Flying a Plane
First published in 1938, Teach Yourself To Fly was not only one of the very first Teach Yourself books to be published but the first to actually change the world. It was used on the eve of the second world war to prepare pilot recruits and conscripts before they were called for service, and as
