Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Leaping Hare
The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. A frequent feature in the mythology of many cultures, the hare has been linked with mystery and witchcraft throughout civilisation, and still today retains an air of
Ghachar Ghochar
In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune. As the narrator, along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle move from a cramped shack to a larger house and encounter new-found wealth, the family dynamics
The City Always Wins
Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam and Khalil, two young activists, are swept up in the fervour. Their lives will never be the same again.The City Always Wins captures the feverish intensity of the 2011 Egyptian revolution ยญยญ- from the
The Buddha of Suburbia
“My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost…”. The hero of Hanif Kureishi`s debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim
The Neighborhood
From the Nobel Laureate, Latin America`s greatest living writer, comes a thrilling detective story that explores the seedy underbelly of Peruvian privilege.When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman`s wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret
Conversations with Friends
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and
Pocket Playhouse
Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn`s latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author`s infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is
The Red Dancer
A new edition of Richard Skinner`s classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a
Hystopia
At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation`s mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas “enfolded”- wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy – while
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLE GIFFORD PRIZE**`Outstanding. I`ll be recommending this all year.` Sarah Bakewell `A beautiful and deeply moving book.` Sally Rooney`I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.` Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925Mecklenburgh
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time. From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in
The Vogue
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019″A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.” Anna Burns, Man Booker Prize-winning author of `Milkman`”A captivating tale about secrets, repression and the falsity of history.” Guardian Books of the YearLate 1944: two teenagers dance the Vogue in silence on the floor of
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris
Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she is best known to many for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. But, as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the
Poetry Please: The Seasons
This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation`s longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare`s `pale splendour of the winter sun` to John Keats` `Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness`, by way of Larkin`s `young-leafed June` and Gerard Manley Hopkins` `glassy peartree leaves
Adele
From the bestselling author of `Lullaby`”Thrilling.” Sunday Times”A must-read.” VogueHer obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them…Adรจle has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of `having it all`, Adรจle is bored. She
The Nothing
One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don`t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab`s bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London
Chester Parsons is Not a Gorilla
When Chester discovers he can mind jump, his sister Amy wastes no time in putting his new skills to work boosting the viewing figures on her video blog. And when a TV company takes them global, he does his most daring mind jump yet, into the brain of Tito the gorilla. The trouble is, when
Explorers on Witch Mountain
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Ordnance Survey Children`s Travel Book of the YearStella Starflake Pearl is eagerly anticipating her next expedition. Suddenly disaster strikes when Stella`s father, Felix, is snatched by a fearsome witch. Stella must bring her magic ice princess tiara to Witch Mountain or she will never see Felix
Explorers on Black Ice Bridge
Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix are in trouble: President Fogg has expelled them from the Polar Bear Explorers` Club, and banned them from going on any further expeditions. Stella`s not going to be put off by rules and regulations though. She knows her friend Shay is in danger of turning into a
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Your Way Out of It
A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.
