Category Archives: Travel Guides
Small Things Like These – Signed, Independent Bookshop Edition
Signed by the Author”A single one of Keegan`s grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.” Hilary Mantel”This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.” Douglas Stuart”Marvellous-exact
Brit Guide to Perfect Days in Disneyland Paris
From the Brit Guide Research Team – the undisputed experts in Disney holidays. Experience the magic of Disneyland Paris with this handy, quick-reference, authoritative travel guide packed with our exclusive Brit Tips. Let us help you plan your perfect trip to Disneyland Paris. We include step by step arrangements that have been carefully planned to
John Buchan`s “The 39 Steps”
This is Patrick Barlow`s Olivier Award winning stage adaptation, based on John Buchan`s gripping whodunit – memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 – is now in its fourth year at the Criterion Theatre in the West End. Nothing has been cut from this hilarious version of Britain`s most spell-binding thriller – legendary scenes include
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.”`The Happy Prince and Other Tales` is a collection of five stories: `The Happy
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems
Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those `private, moonstruck observations` and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems. Decades on, that window continues to operate
Intruders: Faber Stories
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home.To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work. Is he re-entering
Homeland: Faber Stories
“You have to marry outside your clan,” she said. “That`s law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.”When Gloria`s great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee
The Cheater`s Guide to Love: Faber Stories
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda… You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.”In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Diaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist,
Fairy Tales: Faber Stories
A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV.Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss – the more he cares, the less willing he
My Son the Fanatic: Faber Stories
“I`m going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.”When Parvez`s son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he`s taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives
Love After Love – Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2020
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2020 “Unforgettable” Marlon James”It made me ugly cry” Jessie Burton”Glorious” Rachel Joyce”Spellbinding” Andre AcimanMeet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household. Happy in their differences, they build
Find Me: The Highly Anticipated Follow-up to `Call Me By Your Name`
In `Find Me`, Aciman shows us Elio`s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami`s visit and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college
Tamworth Pig Stories
Features two classic tales about Tamworth, the kind-hearted and very wise pig with a flair for publicity, and his human friends, Thomas and Blossom – The Prime of Tamworth Pig and Tamworth Pig Saves the Trees. In these tales Tamworth, Thomas and Blossom campaign to `Save The Trees` and `Grow More Grub and Eat Less
Ghostly Stories: Faber Stories
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. `Be sure you don`t answer the door to anyone you don`t know.`A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women`s
Shanti: Faber Stories
Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return?It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman.Shanti`s husband is a fighter pilot missing in
Giacomo Joyce
“This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?”The manuscript of ‘Giacomo Joyce’, written in James Joyce’s best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in `Ulysses`. Had Joyce meant to pillage it or
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead: Faber Stories
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking
Thinking Again
Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such…Following the publication In My Mind`s Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings. From her home in the North West of Wales,
Motherless Brooklyn
“A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.” Sunday TimesLionel Essrog is Brooklyn`s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette`s Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent`s Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank
Mostly Hero: Faber Stories
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn`t want to be, but that`s just how it goes.Written by Anna Burns
