Category Archives: Travel Guides
In Paris With You
Because their story didn`t end at the right time, in the right place, because they let their feelings go to waste, it was written, I think, that Eugene and Tatiana would find each other ten years later, one morning in winter, under terra firma on the Meteor, Line 14 (magenta) of the Paris metro.Eugene and
Survivors
Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival, including… The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark,
Golden Child – Longlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2019Longlisted for the 2020 Jhalak Prize “Startling… Remarkable.” Economist”Right away I was utterly absorbed.” Sarah Jessica ParkerOne father. Two sons. An impossible choice.When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn`t return home one afternoon, even his twin brother, Peter, doesn`t know where he is. So their father, Clyde, must set out into the
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
The acknowledged `Queen of Crime`, P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six,
The Hug
Hedgehog was feeling sad.As sad as a hedgehog can feel.So sad only one thing could help…Tortoise was feeling sad. As sad as a tortoise can feel. So sad only one thing could help… In this clever flipbook, both a hedgehog and a tortoise are looking for a hug. They ask all the other animals they
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194: The Normans in Sicily Volume II
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration unparalleled in Europe. But sixty-four years later,
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I
Chronicling the `other Norman invasion`, The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors retreating before him and one of
Lanny – Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker PrizeNot far from London, there is a village.This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England`s mysterious past and its confounding present.It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping
Lanny
From the author of `Grief Is the Thing with Feathers`Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize”Books this good don`t come along very often.” Maggie O`Farrell”Stunning and deeply affecting.” Nathan Filer”A magically beguiling work, a triumph.” Financial Times”A thing of total joy… thrums with rhythm and life.” ObserverNot far from London, there is a village.This village
What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History`s Most Remarkable Women
Tired of your boss bropropriating your ideas and presenting them as his own? Wondering if the pursuit of having it all has in fact resulted in having not very much? It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history to conquer today. It is time to turn to women like Frida Kahlo and
For The Good Times
Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast that has become the epicentre of a country intent on cannibalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a good drink, and the songs of Perry Como – whose commitment to clean living holds up a dissonant mirror to their
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts,
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia
Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson`s year travelling around Russia takes us to the heart of a country that we are continually interested in, yet can struggle to understand. As the TLS put it, Hobson writes with `such a beguiling directness that it is hard not to feel intimate
Perfidious Albion
In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party `England Always` is fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure.
A Long Way From Home
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive.Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home
The Madonna of The Mountains
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Fiction, with a Sense of Place1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria`s father has left the village to find her a husband. He has taken his mule, a pack of food and a photograph of Maria. There are no eligible men in this valley, or the next
The Land of Neverendings
Emily watched, in a trance of astonishment, as the bear opened the picnic basket, took out a tartan rug and spread it on Holly`s bed. And then the penguin spoke. Actually spoke. `What`s going on? This isn`t Pointed End!`The bear said, `It looks like a human bedroom. We must`ve come through the wrong door.`But there
The Paris Diversion
“Sleek, cunning and breakneck… A knockout.” Megan Abbott”You won`t stop reading until the final devastating pages.” Stephen King Kate Moore – a mother with an interesting past – is living the quiet life in another European city, or trying to. On her way to drop her children off at school in the city centre, the
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window, and the evening star glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud. It is with a sigh that I remember
Squishy McFluff: Tea with the Queen
A day out with Squishy could never be boring!When Squishy and Ava go on a trip to London, they can`t resist the chance to explore the palace, but when they accidentally find the Queen, will she be able to see how wonderful Squishy is?
