Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Fatal Tree
London, the 1720s. Welcome to `Romeville`, the underworld of that great city. The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild, self-styled `Thief-taker General` who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime.Only two people truly defy him: Jack Sheppard, apprentice turned house-breaker, and his lover, the
The White Road
From the author of The Three, coming soon to your screen as a major BBC adaptation by Golden Globe winner Peter StraughanAdrenaline-junky Simon Newman sneaks onto private land to explore a dangerous cave in Wales with a strange man he`s met online. But Simon gets more than he bargained for when the expedition goes horribly
Starling Days: Shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Novel Award
“A singular novel from the poetic and painterly mind of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.” Sharlene Teo, `Ponti`”An exquisite rendering of love, sadness, and misunderstanding . . . I want to share this book with everyone I know.` The Paris Review `A quiet triumph – tenderly and disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love, loneliness, what it is
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
Forgotten edgelands, furious battles, suburban mysteries – discover the secret history of our green belts.Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society – between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress.Growing up on
Crimes of the Father
Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and has lived in Canada as a monk ever since. Twenty-five years later, back in Australia to give a lecture about celibacy and paedophile priests, he comes
Harry`s Game: The 40th Anniversary Edition
A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly
Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance
Winner of the Wanderlust Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2016.`Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller` Sir Ranulph Fiennes `Britain`s best-loved adventurer…he looks like a man who will stare danger in the face and soak up a lot of pain without complaint.` The Times Levison Wood`s most challenging expedition yet begins
Deliciously Ella Every Day
The Deliciously Ella way of eating isn`t about following a diet, it`s about enjoying delicious, natural food to help you look and feel your best. Luckily, Ella understands that nourishing your body with wholesome ingredients needs to fit in with your existing lifestyle and not feel like something difficult, which is why she has written
Gino`s Islands in the Sun: 100 Recipes from Sardinia and Sicily to Enjoy at Home
Join Gino on his trip to the islands of Sicily and Sardinia on a journey of discovery of authentic and delicious Italian food. Delving into the gastronomic history of these islands he will uncover the signature dishes, and secret recipes that encapsulate Sicily and Sardinia and their people. With over 100 mouth-watering recipes – using
Ruby
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS` WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** `LUMINOUS` Guardian `STUNNING` New York Times `EXCEPTIONAL` Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it
Spook Street: Jackson Lamb Thriller 4
WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER`Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven`t read him yet, you NEED to` Mark BillinghamNever outlive your ability to survive a fight.Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day.
Walker`s Guide To Outdoor Clues & Signs
The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look for.Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs.This top ten bestseller is the result of Tristan Gooley`s two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing.
Wonderland: A Year of Britain`s Wildlife, Day by Day
`Vibrant, fascinating, poetic – a year in living things: all the things we love, all the things we wish we could, all the little things we step over and never know – the best of British wildlife from two superb naturalists and writers` CHRIS PACKHAMFrom blackbirds, beavers and beetles to tawny owls, natterjack toads and
Stork Mountain
In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a child. His mission is to track down his grandfather and to find out why he suddenly cut off all contact with the family three years
Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter
`A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta…his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.` Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday `I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative and analytical. This is good history.` Gerard DeGroot, The Times At Runnymede, on
Dashing for the Post: Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve…But as his
The Age of Anxiety: A Novel
The debut novel by Pete Townshend, one of the world`s greatest rock starsA former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions.An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize`An extraordinary and original writer` A.S. Byatt on Sjon Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as
Ghosts of the Past
A family cloaked in secrets. A beguiling woman. A unique setting. Inspector Bordelli is back to solve one of the most difficult cases of his entire career in the sixth book in this atmospheric crime noir series – perfect for fans of Andrea Camilleri.Florence, 1967. It is winter, and one year has passed since the
