Category Archives: Travel Guides
Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories
The perfect Christmas gift: three festive tales from the brilliant pen of Kate Atkinson.
Lost Property: The most uplifting debut of 2021
`An enthralling read, full of rich descriptions and characters you can`t help but love.` Hazel Prior`A wonderfully rich, funny and brimming with heart book.` Beth Morrey Dot Watson has lost her way.Twelve years ago her life veered off course, and the guilt over what happened still haunts her. Before then she was living in Paris,
Wahala
`Sex and the City` with a killer edge for fans of `Queenie`, `Expectation` and `My Sister, Serial Killer`.”Funny, shocking, unputdownable. I loved it” Paula Hawkins, author of `The Girl on the Train` and `A Slow Fire Burning`”Terrific. I just raced through `Wahala`. Nikki May writes so well about friendship, food, fashion and the many ways
Dodger`s Guide to London
Roll Up! Roll Up! Read All About It! Ladies and Gents, Sir Jack Dodger brings you a most excellent Guide to London! Did you know…? If a Victorian couldn`t afford a sweep, they might drop a goose down their chimney to clean it! A nobby lady`s unmentionables could weigh up to 40lbs! Parliament had to
Northern Lights – The Graphic Novel: Volume 1
`Without this child, we shall all die.` Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle – a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch
Rose Rivers
A wonderful new story starring old friends and new from the much-beloved Victorian world of Hetty Feather.Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy – beautiful dresses, horse-riding lessons, books – but she`s not satisfied. Why can`t she
Northern Lights – The Graphic Novel
The incredible story of Lyra Belacqua will begin, and continue, in The Book of Dust. Now you have the opportunity to revisit her adventures in The Northern Lights, with this graphic novel adaptation of a masterpiece, which comes to life with incredible full-colour art. Follow Lyra`s story once again, in a way you`ve never experienced
I Am An Island
`The memoir of the year` – Vogue`Completely astonishing…the fragility of life transcended and restored by the triumphant pull of a determination to survive` – Juliet NicolsonWhen Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying
The Wee Free Men: Gift Edition
Every land needs its own witch.There’s a monster in the river, a headless horsemen in the drive. And now Granny Aching has gone, there’s only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries.It’s her land. Her duty.But it’s amazing how useful a horde of unruly pictsies can be . . .
Shelf Life
“An impressive, Sally Rooney-esque debut novel” New Statesman”`Shelf Life` is whip-smart, slyly heartbreaking, and I felt the truth of it in my bones. Franchini dissects ideas of love, dating and identity in a way that feels both ruthless and humane. I loved it.” Sophie Mackintosh, `The Water Cure`Launching an intelligent, perceptive new voice in fiction,
A Hat Full of Sky: Gift Edition
We seeo you. Now we are you. No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty. Tiffany Aching does. And there`s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can`t die. To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of
Pine
“It`s both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end.” Sophie Mackintosh, author of `The Water Cure`They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in
The Book Of Echoes
“A searing, rhapsodic novel. `The Book of Echoes` is filled with beauty, devastation and the power of ancestral connections that ripple through the ages” Irenson OkojieNarrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of historyOver two hundred years ago in Africa, a
Wave Me Goodbye
September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn`t know where she`s going, or what`s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she`s going on `a little holiday`. Shirley is billeted in the country,
Great Circle – Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker PrizeFor fans of `The Goldfinch`, `All the Light We Cannot See` and `The Girls`: this monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen. “Outrageously gifted” Richard Russo”Ferociously clever” GuardianFrom the days of giant passenger ships
Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival
Thought to be the only complete book written within Auschwitz itself, Eddy de Wind`s account of his time in the concentration camp is for readers of `The Cut Out Girl` and `The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz`.With an Afterword by John Boyne, author of `The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas`Eddy de Wind, a
Little Stars
Hetty Feather has begun a new chapter in her life story. Escaping from Tanglefield`s Travelling Circus with her dearest friend Diamond, Hetty is determined to find them positions as glamorous music hall artistes. Hetty and Diamond quickly become the Little Stars of Mrs Ruby`s show, alongside many colourful acts – including an old friend from
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
Signed by the author`London Clay` is an exploration of the stories that make a city. Written in rich and vivid prose, Chivers leads us on a journey to find the source of his memories, and to discover lost rivers, secret woodlands, the marshes and islands long buried beneath the city he loves.”Tom Chivers, with the
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: In Search of Russia`s Remarkable Survivors
“`A sparkling debut by an outstanding and gifted author. A brilliant guide to Russia of the past and the present, set around an extraordinary search for the heart, soul and lost keyboards of centuries gone by.” Peter Frankopan”An extraordinary, cadenced journey into music, exile and landscape.” Edmund de Waal”An elegant and nuanced journey through literature,
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
One hundred years on… The Battle of Passchendaele, fought from July to November 1917, epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front in the First World War. This was the war of attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious. The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not diluted the power
