Category Archives: Travel Guides
Homemade Cocktails: The essential guide to making great cocktails, infusions, syrups, shrubs and more
`This book is dangerous: I had a Boulevardier in my hand five minutes after opening it`Victoria Moore, Wine correspondent, the Daily Telegraph and BBC Good Food`Cocktail making demystified at last! What a useful book`India Knight The cocktail scene has exploded in recent years and the bars are booming. From the classics to modern-day twists with
The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2
`”Is it really possible, do you suppose,” said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, “that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?”` So begins `The Adventure of the Brown Box`. Even better than his first collection, twelve new stories from the
Quick and Delicious Vegetarian Meals
It is specifically designed for busy people who want to serve good, healthy food but do not have much time to do so.It contains both vegetarian and vegan recipes for all tastes and all occasions and from all around the world – pasta dishes and bruschetta from Italy, curries from India, tagines from North Africa,
Crap Kitchen: Boiled Gannet, Calf-Brain Custard and Other `Acquired Tastes`
The worst cookbook ever, packed with truly bizarre and utterly disgusting recipes from all over the world Ever since humankind produced its first foodie, the culinary world has dished up some staggering confections which could best be described as `acquired tastes`: dishes such as Virgin Boy Eggs (eggs soaked in the urine of prepubescent boys);
Istanbul: A Traveller`s Reader
Istanbul, A Traveller`s Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained
Super Food for Superchildren: Delicious, Low-Sugar Recipes for Healthy, Happy Children, from Toddlers to Teens
There is so much dietary advice out there, much of it conflicting, that it can be difficult for busy parents to make sense of it all.Medical doctor and sports scientist, Professor Tim Noakes, chef and long-distance swimmer, Jonno Proudfoot, and dietitian Bridget Surtees, a specialist in paediatric nutrition, cut through the clamour to provide clear,
The Ludicrous Laws of Old London
London abounds with all manner of ludicrous laws, and not all of these curious statutes have been relegated to the past. Despite the efforts of the Law Commission there are medieval laws that are still in force, and the City of London and its livery companies have their own legal oddities. Laws are made in
The Worst Journey: Life and death aboard the Royal Navy`s Arctic convoys, 1941-5
During the terrible voyage, from the extreme north-west of Scotland to Russia`s Arctic coast, the sailors faced 50- and even 100-foot waves, icebergs and hurricane-force winds. Such winds could peel the steel shields from the ships` guns and regularly blew men overboard. In summer, Oerlikon gunners would be at their guns for twenty hours a
Growing Up Wild: 30 Great Ways to Get Your Kids Outdoors
Have you ever noticed how much calmer and more engaged your children are when they are outside in the natural world? A growing body of evidence is pointing to the need for children to spend more time outside. Being outdoors has the potential to energise, entertain and educate our children, often with minimal input from
The Street Food Secret: The World`s Most Exciting Fast Food in Your Own Kitchen
Celebrating classic dishes enjoyed every day by generations of people the world over, as well as more modern fusion food creations, this book is packed full of exiting recipes ideal for sharing with friends and family. Following the success of his previous two books, author Kenny McGovern has ventured abroad and developed his repertoire of
Great British Pub Dogs: From Dachshunds to Great Danes, the Canine Residents of Britain`s Pubs
This beautifully photographed collection tells the stories of the much-loved dogs, of all kinds, that live in pubs all over Great Britain, not least the Pub Dog Capital of Britain, Whitstable. Locals love their pub dogs and landlords often say that people come in as much for the dog as for anything else. Dogs make
The City in Darkness
Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It`s unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry
Sibanda and the Rainbird
When a gruesomely vulture-mutilated corpse is found in the Park near Thunduluka Lodge, DI Jabulani Sibanda – a hard-boiled, bush-loving, instinctive crime fighter – is on the case. With Sibanda are his sidekicks: Sergeant Ncube, an overweight, digestively challenged, severally married angler and mechanical genius, and Miss Daisy, an ancient, truculent and eccentric Land Rover
The Adventuress
In this newest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily Hargreaves travels to the south of France where an apparent suicide may be something far more sinister. Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion – the engagement party of
A Death in the Medina
`Clever, captivating and colourful; an absorbing thriller rich in atmosphere` Philip Gwynne Jones, author of The Venetian Game and Vengeance in VeniceDeath stalks the medina of Marrakech . . .Marrakech, August. It is the start of Ramadan, the hottest in memory. Among the few foreigners left in the sweltering city are a riad owner, her
The Venetian Game: a haunting thriller set in the heart of Italy`s most secretive city
`An unputdownable thriller` Gregory Dowling`It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice… art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax` Daily MailA game of cross and double-cross in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities on earth.From his office on the Street of the
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery
The second novel in Ovidia Yu`s delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin.What we came to think of as the betel nut affair began in the middle of a tropical thunderstorm in December 1937…Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII`s abdication to marry American heiress Wallis
November: A Novel
1989. Salvadorian society is immersed in the horror of civil war. On a fateful November dawn, a group of armed men entered the Universidad Catolica and murder six Jesuits priests and two women in cold blood. Survivor of the massacre Father Tojeira is forced to take the reins of control in the sinister days following
A Dead Man in Tangier
The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series. Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa? Isn`t the death of a Frenchman there something for the local police? Well, yes and no. The local police are answerable to the International Committee, of which the chairman is
The Blood: What secrets lie aboard?
`Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!` Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Primrose PathA world of secrets, murder and betrayal lie behind the London waterfront . . . Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find
