Category Archives: Travel Guides
Holding
Graham Norton`s dark and masterful debut. Set in a remote Irish village, this is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets and loss. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn`t always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn`t always been
Jeremy Hutchinson`s Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley`s Lover to Howard Marks
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson`s greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and secrecy, and the advent of a more permissive society …Grant brings out the essence of each case, and Hutchinson`s role, with clarity and wit` Ben Macintyre,
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France
25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt – a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for Henry V, and at least one for the French. This is
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador included restoring order to sectarian conflict in Syria, helping to
A Presumption of Death
In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940. Harriet Vane – now Lady Peter Wimsey – has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and
My Outdoor Life
Ray Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. He is a private individual who shuns publicity whenever possible and would prefer to let his many skills tell their own tale – until now. In MY OUTDOOR LIFE, Ray tells
Don`t Stop the Carnival
It`s everyone`s dream: to leave behind the rat-race of the working world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colours, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. This is the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a
The Walker`s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
Tristan Gooley, winner of the BBC Countryfile Magazine “Country Book of the Year” Award 2014/2015 provides 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. This book is the result of Tristan Gooley`s two decades of pioneering outdoors
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII`s Most Faithful Servant
`This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendour.` Kate Williams, Independent Thomas Cromwell`s life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel`s bestselling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who was the real Cromwell? In this major
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
`He writes with gusto…the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever …this book sizzles.` The Times `The must-read biography of the year.` Evening Standard `The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.` Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill`s death, Boris Johnson explores what makes
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: The `magnificent` novel by the Costa-winning author of PURE
The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as `excellent`, `gripping`, `as suspenseful as any thriller`, `engrossing`, `moving` and `magnificent`.One rainswept winter`s night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain`s disastrous campaign against Napoleon`s forces in Spain.Gradually
Early Riser
Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite.Your name is Charlie Worthing and it`s your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring
Watching The English
In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The
Bob No Ordinary Cat
A special edition for children age 11 and above, featuring 8 pages of photographs. `We are all given second chances every day of our lives, but we don`t usually take them. Then I met Bob.` James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an
Love from Boy
`Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs …` So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster.For most of his life, Roald Dahl would continue to write
The Universe versus Alex Woods
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex`s story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you`ve ever read. Alex Woods knows that he hasn`t had the most conventional start in
Many Rivers to Cross
A skinny young boy is found dead – his body carelessly stuffed into wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was he discarded as rubbish, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one
The Devil in the Marshalsea
WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014. Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014. London, 1727 – and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors` prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him. It is, of course, all his own fault. He was happy
Breathe: a killer lurks in the worst fog London has ever known
`Donald combines historical events and fictional characters to superb effect, in a novel that deserves to win prizes` The Sunday Times`Remarkably accomplished . . . the most appealing, original protagonist I`ve read for some time . . . Donald`s depiction of the city`s thickening gloom is splendidly evocative . . . A very impressive debut`
