Category Archives: Travel Guides
Abigail
A teenage girl`s difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war. Of all her novels, Magda Szabo`s Abigail is the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was written, it appears for the first time in English, joining Katalin Street and The Door in a loose trilogy about the
The Capital
The prize-winning satirical bestseller – more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide.”I enjoyed The Capital so much… A major book” New York Times”First-class satire” Guardian”A deliciously vicious and timely satire” Financial Times”Mischievous yet profound” Economist`The Capital` is a brilliantly entertaining satire, a crime story, a comedy of manners… and a wild pig chase. This is the
Echoes of the City
A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen`s crowning achievement – an intricate and utterly compelling narrative.Christensen is one of Scandinavia`s finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his career to writing about the city of his birth. As Oslo slowly emerges from a period of
The Bell In The Lake
“Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel” MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees”An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your heart behind”
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint`s treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.In 1890 Stevenson settled in Upolu, an
The Rock Blaster
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life
The Girl in the Spider`s Web: Book 4
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit whose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation will never respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning journalist. Mikael Blomkvist. A lone wolf whose integrity and championing of the truth bring him time and again to the brink
Around Australia On A Triumph
Geoff Hill and Colin O`Carroll take on Australia`s legendary Highway 1 on their trusty Triumph motorbikes, circumnavigating the country from Adelaide to Adelaide. At over 15,000 miles long, Highway 1 is the world`s longest national highway, covering practically every major inhabited part of Australia – capital cities, busy holiday resorts, dramatic coastlines, tropical forests, scrublands
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
By Norway`s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. “An intricate story about war, family, secrets and, yes, wood … An engaging, satisfying read” The Times”So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion” ScotsmanEdvard grows up on a
A Naturalist`s Shetland
One of Britain`s natural treasures, the Shetland Islands are spectacular with their varied geology, wonderful landscape, and special flora and fauna. They are peopled by a culture distinct within the British Isles. Despite their isolation, the islands have evolved many particular species. This book is only the second to describe all the wildlife of the
South Shetland Islands BAS
This double-sided map features topographic detail with a satellite image mosaic backdrop. It covers the South Shetland Islands in three separate map panels. The map shows topographic information including: Coastline and offshore rocks; bathymetry; elevation information as contours and selected mountain summit heights; all UK place names; permanent and summer-only scientific research stations; Antarctic Specially
The Black Path
The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetrask in northern Sweden. She has been brutally tortured, but the killing blow was clumsy, almost amateur. The body is quickly identified, raising hopes of an open-and-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is disinterred, Rebecka Martinsson and Anna-Maria
Accabadora
When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed – she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new `soul mother` is keeping something hidden from her, a secret life that is intimately bound-up with Sardinia`s ancient traditions and
Holy City
A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Rio de la Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by Buenos Aires` criminal classes. As the kidnapping of three foreign businessmen sends stock markets into freefall, the job of solving the chaos falls onto the weary shoulders of Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza
Exile
For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi`s International School, it`s all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents – drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed – are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out
1990: Russians Remember A Turning Point
Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party`s monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell. It charts
Bookshops
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des
Cry, Mother Spain
Aged fifteen, as Franco`s forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit). Montse lives in a small village, high
