Category Archives: Travel Guides
Grow & Cook: The Ultimate Kitchen Garden Guide
The content of this book originally appeared in The New Kitchen Garden, published in 2015.`An endless selection of delicious produce you can plant, grow and then cook with.` Raymond Blanc OBENow you can create your own delicious edible garden at home!More and more people are being inspired to grow a little of what they eat
A Killer`s Confession: And a Mother`s Fight for the Truth
A mother`s story behind one of the most dramatic true crime cases in recent history.”I have lived every parent`s worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter`s 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. She had been found buried in a shallow grave
Fleishman Is in Trouble – Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal”Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I`ve never felt so seen” Grace Dent”Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching” David Nicholls”This book is a work of utter perfection” Elizabeth GilbertFinally free from his nightmare marriage,
The Lost Orchard: A French chef rediscovers a great British food heritage. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
`Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . [The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.` The Times`I began to dream about an orchard filled with thousands of fruit trees… Today we have an orchard with over 150 ancient varieties
A Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards
`In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries . . . a considered and moving book on the timely subject of how the dead are remembered, and how they go on working below the
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction”At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies … [A] valuable, discomforting book” The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the making, `Amity and Prosperity` tells the story of the energy boom`s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of
Scrublands
`Shimmers … a tortured tale of blood and loss` Val McDermid`Stunning … Scrublands is that rare combination, a page-turner that stays long in the memory` Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month)The #1 Bestselling Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane HarperIn an isolated country town ravaged by drought, a charismatic
My Family and the Galapagos
The Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the magic and diversity that inspired Darwin. Monty Halls first visited the islands almost twenty years ago and
A Sweet Obscurity
Bittersweet and startling, A SWEET OBSCURITY is a novel of childhood, love and the consequences of how lives are lived. `Intriguing and impressive. A memorable study of a child forced cruelly, even tragically, to grow up too soon` Sunday TimesSince her mother`s death, nine year old Dido has been living with her eccentric aunt, acting
The Facts of Life
Patrick Gale`s THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever – perfect for any reader of Armistead Maupin, or E M Forster`Absorbing . . . deftly characterised, deeply involving and relevant` The TimesGerman composer Edward Pepper escapes to England just
Do Not Feed the Bear
“Beguiling and astute” Sarah Winman”Astoundingly good” Deborah MoggachA life-affirming novel about broken but loving families, people making mistakes but doing their best, grief and getting stuck – for readers of `Eleanor Oliphant` and `The Trouble WIth Goats and Sheep`On her forty-seventh birthday, Sydney Smith stands on a rooftop and prepares to jump…Sydney is a cartoonist
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A Remarkable True Story of Courage, Hope and Survival
From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of `My House in Damascus` and `The Merchant of Syria`, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo.”I`ll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for humans has mercy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A special illustrated edition of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the bestselling magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman. Breathtaking illustrations by fine artist and illustrator, Elise Hurst. `Both a pitch-perfect fantasy and a moving examination of childhood memories and their effects on our adult selves … superb` The Times`Some books you
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book
`The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book` contains much that is new and revelatory and even several scenes that are not actually in the final television series.In 1990, dream literary collaborators Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman published `the funniest book they could write` about the end of the world. Now, Neil Gaiman
American Dirt: A BBC Radio 2 Bookclub Pick
“I couldn`t put it down. I`ll never stop thinking about it” Ann Patchett”One hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy” Stephen KingFear keeps them running. Hope keeps them alive.Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, `American Dirt` is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross
Whisky Island: A Portrait of Islay and Its Whiskies
Those who discover malt whisky quickly learn that the malts made on the Isle of Islay are some of the wildest and most characterful in the malt-whisky spectrum. In `Whisky Island`, Islay`s fascinating story is uncovered: from its history and stories of the many shipwrecks which litter its shores, to the beautiful wildlife, landscape and
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures
A beautiful collection of iconic talks by the world`s most remarkable mindsFor the first time, the prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been gathered into a rich and remarkable volume. Unearthing forgotten gems from their 70 year archive, as well as sharing the latest in intellectual thought, `Remarkable Minds` is a time capsule into our changing
Two Kitchens: Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome
Rachel`s first book, Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome, won the Andre Simon and Guild of Food Writers` First Book Award in 2015 and she has a weekly column in Guardian Cook.For the last twelve years Rachel Roddy has immersed herself in the culture of Roman cooking, but it was the
Lagom: The Swedish Secret of Living Well
Perfect for fans of The Little Book of Hygge and Norwegian Wood, find the balance in life that is just right for you. Let Lola A. Akerstrom, Editor-in-chief of Slow Travel Stockholm, be your guide to all things lagom. As the Swedish proverb goes, `Lagom ar bast` (The right amount is best). Lagom sums up
In Our Mad and Furious City
`What a voice. What an ear for language… a brave and original piece of work` Kit de Waal, author of THE TRICK TO TIME`A swaggering yet tender debut` ObserverGuy Gunaratne`s blistering first novel IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY is an unforgettable portrait of 48 hours on a London housing estate that will appeal to
