Category Archives: Travel Guides
Gary`s Banana Drama
Gary is desperate for a banana. Could that be one singing in the tree? No! It`s a bird`s beak! Is that a banana whizzing through the air? OUCH! NO! It`s a boomerang from Billy`s show! Where ARE the real bananas? Alone and hungry, Gary is about to give up until . . . WAIT! Could
A Talent for Murder
`I wouldn`t scream if I were you. Unless you want the whole world to learn about your husband and his mistress.` Agatha Christie, in London to visit her literary agent, boards a train, preoccupied and flustered in the knowledge that her husband Archie is having an affair. She feels a light touch on her back,
A Different Kind of Evil
`A heart of darkness beats within this sparkling series. Fizzy with charm yet edge with menace, Andrew Wilson`s Christie novels do Dame Agatha proud. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Philip Kerr` – A. J. FINN, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW`Do you have a secret side, Mrs Christie?` In January 1927,
You Me Everything: A Richard & Judy Book Club selection 2018
*** THE FEEL-GOOD NOVEL OF THE SUMMER AND A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION *** `Wow. Just wow. If you liked Me Before You, you`ll love You Me Everything` Sunday Times bestseller Clare MackintoshSet in the French countryside over one hot summer, You Me Everything is a tender novel about finding joy and
Love x Style x Life
Garance Dore – `the best thing to happen to style since Grace Coddington` (the Guardian)- is an ambassador of French taste and fashion, whose knack for making fashion accessible and fun has captivated millions of fans worldwide. A fashion A-lister, beloved by top fashion editors and aspiring fashionistas alike, she takes a candid and self-deprecating
The Village News: The Truth Behind England`s Rural Idyll
`An entertaining book, written with Fort`s characteristic conversational style… A real pleasure to read` – BBC Countryfile `A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book` – The Literary Review `Meticulously researched and seasoned with wry humour, this is a perceptive and richly rewarding read` – Mail on Sunday We have lived in villages a long time.
Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth
Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world`s greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the
In Byron`s Wake
A Sunday Times Book of the Year`This magnificent, highly readable double biography…brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life` The Financial Times`A gripping saga of a double-biography` Daily Mail`A masterful portrait` The Times`Vastly enjoyable` Literary Review`Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched` The Oldie In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious
The History Of Modern France
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary sequence of events of this period from the end
The Hourglass Factory
1912 and London is in turmoil…The suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch but for broke Fleet Street tomboy Frankie George, just getting by in the cut-throat world of newspapers is hard enough. Sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly laced acrobat and follows her across London to a
The Tears Of The Rajas Pa
The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated with
The Breakaway
A retirement statement from a sports star rarely causes a flicker, but Nicole Cooke went out as she rode her bike: giving it her all. The contrast could not have been greater – as Lance Armstrong, a fraudster backed by many corporate sponsors and feted by presidents, was about to deliver a stage-managed confession to
A Week in Paris
A compelling story of war, secrets, family and history that will draw you into the heart of Paris and its troubled past. Paris, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. Soon she is swept off her feet by a handsome
Tokyo Station
1922, Tokyo. Harry Niles is a `wild child`, an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents, he begins to lead his life in the Tokyo underworld. One night, he is charged with delivering a painting to an enigmatic figure, the samurai Ishigami. It is an encounter that will haunt Harry Niles
Three Sisters, Three Queens
“There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never take our eyes off each other. In love and in rivalry, we always think of each other.” When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With
The Last Tudor
`How long do I have?` I force a laugh.`Not long,` he says very quietly. `They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don`t have long at all.` Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his
The First World War: A New History
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world`s foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world`s foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which
The Undertaker`s Daughter
`On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small town on the Kentucky and Tennessee
Walking the Nile, with 16 pages of colour photographs
A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He will cross seven, very different
The Last Secret of the Deverills
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR – be swept away by the Deverill Chronicles. It is 1939 and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. But much has changed for the Deverill family and now a new generation is waiting in the wings.Martha Wallace came to Dublin from
