Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
Honey & Co the Baking Book
Our day is marked by what comes out of the pastry section, and there`s always something good on the way: sticky buns full of cherries and pistachios in the morning; a loaf of rich dough rolled with chocolate, hazelnuts and cinnamon that has been proving since dawn and comes out of the oven fresh for
Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome
Winner of the Guild of Food Writers` First Book Award and the Andrรฉ Simon Food Book Award 2015″`Five Quarters` stands out as particularly considered and evocative… Impeccably researched and transportive, it`s a proper read, rather than a quick flick.” AA Gill”Of course I thought Rome was glorious, but I didn`t want to stay. A month,
Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild
`Two of the UK`s most exciting nature writers. A thoughtful adventure in learning simple skills that help connect people to nature.` Guardian Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild is a book of simple skills that can help us to interact with nature, achieve a deeper connection with it and even step
A Street Cat Named Bob
When James Bowen finds a ginger street cat in the hall of his sheltered accommodation he is unable to resist taking care of the injured animal. Soon James and Bob form a firm friendship and become a regular site around London. A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving story about a friendship that helps
One Day – Gift Edition
This gift edition of ONE DAY is presented in a beautiful slipcase with head and tail bands and ribbon marker.`I can imagine you at forty,` she said, a hint of malice in her voice. `I can picture it right now.` He smiled without opening his eyes. `Go on then.` 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter
Walking Home from Mongolia
What else would one do after “Cycling Home from Siberia,” but walk more than 3,000 miles from the Gobi Desert to Hong Kong?Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six month journey, walking 3,000 miles across China. Along the way he and cameraman Leon brave the toxic
We Were Kings
In 1950s Boston, the best way to survive is keep your head down and your mouth shut. But Cal and Dante prefer to do the right thing, not the sensible one. When a body is discovered tarred, feathered and shot, it is dismissed as a gangland killing. But Cal O`Brien`s cousin, detective Owen Lackey, recognises
Gordon Ramsay`s Ultimate Cookery Course
“I want to teach you how to cook good food at home. By stripping away all the hard graft and complexity, anyone can produce mouth-watering recipes. Put simply, I`m going to show you how to cook yourself into a better cook.” GORDON RAMSAY Gordon Ramsay`s Ultimate Cookery Course is about giving home cooks the desire,
In the Woods
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened.
No Mortal Thing
Two young men – Jago and Marcantonio – both studying business and finance:Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the `Ndrangheta crime
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force in public life, they began to take up essential roles – from transport to policing,
Heart of the Hunter
The big man known as `Tiny` has a past littered with violence and death. An assassin`s past that he hopes never to face again.But when his best friend is kidnapped, Tiny suddenly finds himself on the back of a stolen motorbike, speeding away from his child and the woman he loves.Tiny has only 72 hours
The Ascent of Everest
`This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. `Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of one day, nor even of
Devil`s Peak
The former freedom fighter known as `Tiny` has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims are those guilty of crimes against children.He goes by the name of Artemis.Benny Griessel, a fading
Death in the Tuscan Hills
Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017. Spring, 1967. The trail of tragedy and destruction that followed the previous winter`s flood seems to have died down; Florence is beginning to recover.But Inspector Bordelli does not feel the same sense of relief – he has not had a moment`s peace since his investigation of a young
The Cloud Atlas
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell`s bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy`s 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim
