Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Flying Man
Meet Maqil – also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel – a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in
Travelling With Pomegranates
An engrossing, touching and uplifting travel memoir from the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and her daughter. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turning point in her life. What emerged was a quest for Ann and Sue to redefine themselves
Deadline
When Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul`s famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Walking in the steps of the great Agatha Christie, Ikmen experiences fear and hatred which have echoes deep in his own past.
The Paris Winter
Imogen Robertson`s break-out novel – a deep, dark and opulent tale of Belle Epoque Paris, and the secrets and dangers hidden beneath its luxurious facade. Maud Heighton came to Lafond`s famous Academy to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris eats money.
The Book of Summers
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it`s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary. It
A Year of Marvellous Ways
A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the unforgettable and completely captivating new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she`s taken to spending her days sitting on
The Dog Stars
Shorlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013. THE ROAD – but with hope. Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for – his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He`s just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China`s Hidden Mountains
In a mist-shrouded valley on China`s invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the “Kingdom of Women,” where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of
The Nile: History`s Greatest River
The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world`s leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river`s mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers
The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d`Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers” is a reader`s journey along this fabled coast,
Britty Britty Bang Bang: One Man`s Attempt to Understand His Country
Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being “British” meant for nearly a decade, ever since his friend Ardal O`Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised, teased, vaguely insulted or possibly all three – because it
The Tangier Diaries
`Tangier, the white city poised atop the dark continent which turns out to be the continent of light.`Tangier in the 1960s and `70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the `Interzone`, became muse and escapist`s dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom
Road to Rouen
Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family`s been attacked by a donkey, had a run-in with a death-cult and, after a near drowning and a calamitous
Between Heaven and Texas
Welcome to Too Much – where the women are strong-willed and the men are handsome yet shiftless. Ever since Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale were children, their Aunt Velvet warned them away from local boys. But the females in Mary Dell`s family have two traits in common – superior sewing skills
Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated History
A detailed history with fascinating insights and a gorgeous visual reference, this book tours the sacred Egyptian sites, from theimpressive mortuary temples of the pharaohs to those dedicated to the many gods and goddesses.It includes an in-depth examination of the crucial role that religious belief and mythology played during this intriguing period of ancient history.The
Small Island
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh`s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn`t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else
Treasure Islands
Pamela Stephenson (psychoanalyst, ex-comedienne, wife of Billy Connolly) follows in the intrepid footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis. They have much in common – a fascination with the South Seas, and a thirst for adventure, a fearlessness and great humour in the face of adversity and unpredictable husbands.
An Island Parish: A Summer on Scilly
The Scilly Isles, one of the most remote parts of England, are in crisis. With the small population constantly leaving the islands for the mainland, those left behind are having to work harder and harder to make a living, and this summer is crunch time for many of them. Nigel Farrell is our guide through
Britain`s Best Drives: Journeys Back to the Golden Age of Motoring
Richard Wilson follows some of Britain`s best drives from the Wye Valley to Rob Roy`s Highlands, in this BBC TV tie-in. Back in the fifties, motoring was a liberating experience. Before motorways, traffic jams and road rage, the leisurely Sunday drive could be the highlight of the week. Now, armed with a driving guide from
Death by Design
Barbara Nadel`s new Turkish crime novel sees Inspector Ikmen tackling a complex case of organised crime in London. When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process, Istanbul`s Inpsector Cetin
