Category Archives: Travel Guides
Island of Wings
Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. 1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save the souls of the pagan inhabitants; his pregnant wife speaks no Gaelic and, when her husband is away, has only the
Hotel K
Hotel K by Kathryn Bonella, tells the gripping inside story of Bali’s most notorious jail and its inmates.The darkness within its walls conceals tales of violence like the killings passed as suicides; of corruption of the guards organizers of ‘sex nights’; of the bizarre jail’s ecstasy factory. This is the squalid reality shared by people
Blossoms and Shadows
Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But the Western powers are now at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan
The Vintage Caper
Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth is the victim of a world-class wine heist – and he is devastated. Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime, is called in by Roth`s insurance company, now saddled with a multi-million-dollar claim. His leads take him first to Bordeaux`s magnificent vineyards and then to glorious
The Conviction Of Cora Burns
With the power and intrigue of Jessie Burton`s `The Miniaturist` and Sarah Schmidts `See What I Have Done`, Carolyn Kirbys stunning debut takes the reader on a heart-breaking journey through Victorian Birmingham and questions where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts.Birmingham 1885: Born in a gaol and raised in a
Child Wonder
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when `men became boys and housewives women`, the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a
In the Gold of Time
Set between Normandy and Arizona, In the Gold of Time is a seductive tale of silences and dark, half-revealed secrets, and a haunting elegy for innocence lost in a lost world. A young father holidays by the sea near Dieppe with his reproachfully perfect wife and their twin daughters. Returning from the local shop, he
Short History Of Europe: A Pocket Essential
What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different ideas, philosophies, religions and attitudes. Nonetheless, it has a common thread of history running through it, stitching the lands and peoples of its past and present together into one fabric. This narrative
A Walk Across the Sun
Ahalya Ghai and her younger sister Sita are as close as sisters can be. But when a tsunami rips through their village on India`s Coromandel coast, their home is swept away, and the sisters are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent many miles away.
Blackwood
For years, Colburn has been haunted by his father`s suicide and the rapid disintegration of his childhood home. As a teenager, Colburn fled Red Bluff, Mississippi, eager to escape his trauma and start fresh elsewhere. But when he returns to town as an adult, lured by an unshakable desire, he finds that his demons have
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year
1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. The world had just emerged from a war that had killed millions of people and a global pandemic that had ended the lives of tens of millions more. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later.Empires
London Underground Manual: Designing, Building and Operating the World`s Oldest Underground Rail Network
The London Underground, or Tube, is an icon: it is the world`s oldest underground rail network and remains one of its largest and busiest. The Haynes London Underground Manual provides a detailed insight into its design, construction, operation and maintenance, featuring fascinating photographs and drawings from the archives along with essential technical details and an
The Third Reich
The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age.
The Dinosaur Feather
Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis in his lap. Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is assigned to unravel what
Ten Year Stretch
The twenty brand new crime stories in this book have been specially commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest, described by the Guardian as “one of the 50 best festivals in the world.” Contributors come from around the world and include the legendary Maj Sjowall who, together with partner Per Wahloo, was the originator
The Language Of Secrets: A Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty Mystery (Book 2)
Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada`s Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. For months, INSET has been investigating a local terrorist cell which is planning an attack on New Year`s Day but their undercover informant, Mohsin Dar, has been murdered. Khattak can`t let Mohsin`s murder slide, so he
A Short History Of The Anglo-saxons
In July, 2009 amateur metal detectorist Terry Herbert made an incredible discovery. He was searching a field in Staffordshire with his metal detector when he stumbled upon the single greatest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silverwork ever found. His amazing finds, known collectively as the Staffordshire Hoard, focused a spotlight of interest on the history
The Emperor Of Shoes
From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a transfixing story about an expatriate in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring dramatic political change.Alex Cohen, a twenty-six year old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their familyowned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm
Tapping The Source
People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike looked into the shadows and found parties that drifted
Everywhere We Went: Top Tales from Cricket`s Barmy Army
Boxing Day, Melbourne 2010: a packed house of over 80,000 sits down to watch the crucial fourth Test unfold. Three days later, only 12,000 remain – and it`s just the Barmy Army, celebrating as England retain the Ashes. They run through their full repertoire of songs, cheering on England`s success. Meanwhile, the England players salute
