Category Archives: Travel Guides
Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling
“Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger`s commentary”Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems
Hearts And Minds: Suffragists, Suffragettes and How Women Won the Vote
FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 `START THE WEEK`. Set against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote, Hearts and Minds tells the remarkable and inspiring story of the suffragists` march on London. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impassioned
The Illness Lesson
“Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully-executed. With power, subtlety, and keen intelligence, Clare Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece.” Elizabeth GilbertIt is 1871. At the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION: the tender feelgood story of a man`s journey with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. It`s not the journey that counts, but who`s at your side.Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can
Big Sky
The highly anticipated return of Jackson Brodie, ex-military, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, now private investigator. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. It`s a picturesque setting, but there`s something
A Slow Fire Burning: The scorching new thriller from the author of `The Girl on the Train`
“From the first sentence to the last, this explosive, startling novel grabs you by the throat and doesn`t let go.” Kate Mosse”Gripping and intriguing, I loved every moment” S J Watson “Twists and turns galore…Paula Hawkins is a genius.” Lisa Jewell”What is wrong with you?”Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She`s seen
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper – Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeFive devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.”An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth.” GuardianPolly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are
Bridge of Clay
THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF`If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show… [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.` Guardian`This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.` Times`Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books
The Private Life of the Hare
“To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt… these are great things. Every field should have a hare.”The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They
The Secret Life of the Owl
`Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.`There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. They are the birds of ill-tidings,
Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut`s Photographs from a Year in Space
The first photo book by the Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking Year in Space. This is an awe-inspiring collection of the photos Scott took himself while on board the International Space Station, many of which have never been seen before. Scott Kelly has seen the world in ways most of us never
Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the `most stupendous experience of my life`. That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new
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
The Vanishing Hours
This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end.At a hotel bar in a quiet English town, two strangers meet by chance and share their stories. Hers is of an inconspicuous life, shaken by heartbreak and scattered
Eight Master Lessons of Nature
For too long we have set ourselves apart from nature, seeing ourselves as superior, removed, independent. But in doing so we have lost sight of all that the natural world can teach us.In Eight Master Lessons of Nature, Gary Ferguson reveals the wisdom of the natural world. By keenly observing and admiring wildlife and their
Kursk: Film tie-in
At 11.30 a.m. on Saturday 12 August 2000, two massive explosions roared through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. The Kursk, pride of the Northern Fleet and the largest attack submarine in the world, was hurtling towards the ocean floor.In `Kursk` (originally published as `A Time to Die`), award-winning journalist Robert Moore vividly
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
*Signed by Bill Bryson at Stanfords!*What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms
Where I Left My Soul
He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France`s armies in the Far East collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar, a captive commander in the very organization he is charged with eliminating. But
Bryant & May – London`s Glory: Short Stories
In every detective`s life there are cases that can`t be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal. Now Arthur Bryant has decided to open the files on eleven of these previously unseen investigations that
