Category Archives: Travel Guides
Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world: Survival techniques for everyday life from an SAS hero
SAS hero Chris Ryan tells you how to keep your family safe in a dangerous world. In today`s increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. In 2016, Chris Ryan`s family was targeted by a terrorist cell. He didn`t know who they were, or where they might strike. All he knew
A Keeper
Shortlisted for the National Book AwardsFrom the bestselling author of `Holding` comes a masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on the coast of Ireland.Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I`m not really sure how to begin . . .The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns.Elizabeth
Home Stretch: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH POPULAR FICTION AWARD
`[A] compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner.` THE SUNDAY TIMES`Beautiful and heartbreaking.` PANDORA SYKES`A real page-turner, the kind of warmth and magical storytelling that puts me in mind of the late, great Maeve Binchy… a writer of real strength and talent.` LORRAINE KELLY`intelligent and tenderly observed` THE TIMES`Full of heart and humanity and I loved every
Home Stretch: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
`Graham Norton`s new novel has me in floods… His gift for characterisation is positively Binchy-esque! Such nuance and warmth! It`s GORGEOUS` MARIAN KEYES`Full of heart and humanity and I loved every single page. What a storyteller!` ELIZABETH DAY`I loved HOME STRETCH … one of those books that stays with you so long after you`ve finished
The Rhine: Following Europe`s Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearThe Rhine is one of the world`s greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France,
Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year”Compelling, thought-provoking, and courageous, this epic-poetic journey peels back layers of collective emotional and imaginative inheritance. Jubber gets under the skin of our complicated continent and his timing is dead right” Kapka Kassabova”A genuine epic” Wanderlust`The prose is colourful and
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe`s Winds from the Pennines to Provence Signed Copy
Signed by the authorShortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearNick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe`s winds across the continent. His wind-walks begin on Cross Fell, the highest point of the Pennines, as he chases the roaring Helm – the
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
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert
The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it`s a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century
Wild Signs and Star Paths: The Keys to Our Lost Sixth Sense
`Beautifully written… I promise you will feel more in tune with the world around after reading only one chapter of `Wild Signs and Star Paths`, let alone the book in its entirety` – Royal Institute of Navigation`A beautifully written almanac of tricks and tips that we`ve lost along the way` – ObserverTristan Gooley, author of
Towers in the Mist
Set in Elizabethan times, Faithful, a poor Londoner, heads for Oxford. He`s bright, cheeky and good-looking, has a tremendous love of learning and hopes to be an Oxford scholar. When he is taken in by Canon Leigh and his family, Faithful begins to fulfil his dreams. In this coming-of-age tale, the excitement, squalor and beauty
Incredible Journeys: Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019
“David Barrie, who himself has sailed the oceans using a sextant, is passionate about navigation and describes in delightful detail the myriad ways in which animals get around … eye-opening book.” Frans de Waal, New York Times “Only a sailor could relate the navigational powers of both humans and animals with such appreciation, excitement, and
London Rules: Jackson Lamb Thriller 5
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER`The UK`s new spy master` Sunday TimesLondon Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.Cover your arse.Regent`s Park`s First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he`s facing attack from all directions himself:
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
`Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining` – Wall Street JournalTHE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020`This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles and world domination, the real story of the Freemasons is one of male eccentricity.`The Craft is a superb book that often reads like an adventure novel. It`s informative, fascinating and often
The French Exchange Whale and Other Rejected Book Ideas
It`s said that everyone has a book inside them. Cal King doesn`t have just one though; he`s bursting with ideas for everything from children`s books to (in his mind) prize-winning novels.Unfortunately for Cal, his ideas are all a bit silly. However, refusing to be deterred by rejections from publishers and agents (or the laughter of
WTF
There has been a people`s revolt against the way the West has been run. Brexit, Trump, the recent British and French elections saw millions of people shouting that they were sick to death of things never getting better. In WTF Robert Peston gives us his highly personal account of what those who have ruled us
The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery
`We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .` `Beguiling` StylistThe year is 1831. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and London`s vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman
