Category Archives: Travel Guides
History of the World in 100 Animals
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals – from the blue whale to the mosquito – that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are
Supermarket
The Number One New York Times BestsellerThe stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic.”Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. `Supermarket` is like `Naked Lunch` meets `One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest`
White City Blue
Winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award “Beautiful and brilliant” Tony Parsons Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf – White City, Shepherd`s Bush – as `Frank the Fib`. He`s a liar – but one who always tries to tell the truth. Frankie has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser,
Here We Are
It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack – Jack Robinson, as in `before you can say` – is everyone`s favourite
I`m Sticking With You: A Funny Feel-Good Classic to Fall in Love With!
Shortlisted for Oscar`s Book Prize 2021Shortlisted for Children`s Illustrated Book of the Year at The British Book Awards 2021″A wonderful, warm bear-hug of a story with sumptuous illustrations. A modern classic.” Jim Field, illustrator of `Oi Frog`Wherever you`re going, I`m going too.Whatever you`re doing, I`m sticking with you.It`s wonderful to have good friends to see
The Thirteen Treasures
While visiting her grandmother`s house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby – a girl Tanya`s grandmother will not speak of. Fabian, the caretaker`s son, is tormented by the girl`s disappearance. His grandfather was the last person to see her alive, and has
The Thirteen Curses (13 Curses)
The Thirteen Treasures have become the Thirteen Curses. When fairies stole her brother, Red vowed to get him back. Now trapped in the fairy realm, she begs an audience with the fairy court where she strikes a bargain. Her brother will be returned – but only if she can find the thirteen charms of Tanya`s
The Other Passenger
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE, WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD`The Other Passenger is just brilliant; gripping from the first page with an incredible first person narrative and a sense of place that pulls you through the pages fast enough to make your head spin. Louise Candlish just
A Cat`s Christmas Carol
It`s Christmas Eve and all the staff in the department store are on their way home for Christmas. All except one . . . Clawdia, the department store`s security cat! She doesn`t see the point in silly festive celebrations and would much rather prowl the corridors making sure everything is in order. But when three
A Sprinkle of Sorcery
From the bestselling author of A PINCH OF MAGIC comes another spellbinding adventure that will take your breath away and make you believe in magic. A missing sister, a secret island and … a sprinkle of sorcery. The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to leave
A Tangle of Spells: Bring the magic home with the bestselling Pinch of Magic Adventures
It should have been a fresh start for the Widdershins sisters, Betty, Fliss and Charlie, who have left the misty gloom of Crowstone for a new life in the pretty village of Pendlewick. But all is not as it seems and as one of their own begins to slip away from them, the sisters find
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The International Bestseller
Translated by Jamie ChangKim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames
The Killing in the Consulate: The Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi
After Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed going in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, he was never seen alive again. What happened next turned into a major international scandal, now finally pieced together by Channel 4`s BAFTA award-winning Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.Described by Donald Trump as the `worst cover-up ever`, this is
Zimbabwe
In recent years, under the despotic rule of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe became a byword for chaos, corruption and cruelty, but when a German geologist discovered gold there in the 1860s it was touted as the home of the biblical King Solomon`s mines or the domain of the Queen of Sheba. So what really is the
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran ***1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and
The White Darkness
One man`s perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton. Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 19th-century polar explorer, who tried to become the
The A303: Highway to the Sun
`Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move` Sunday Telegraph`A lovely book…At last someone has celebrated the romance of the British road` GuardianThe A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English
The Sun and Her Flowers
A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller `the sun and her flowers` by Rupi Kaur, author the #1 New York Times bestseller `milk and honey`. Her long-awaited second collection of poetry is a vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honouring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father`s War and What Remains
`Beautifully told` John le Carre `More than just history` Michael Palin `Truly exceptional` Jon Snow `Absolutely remarkable` Edmund de Waal In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father`s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and
Wordy
`Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the
