Category Archives: Travel Guides
Istanbul: Memories and the City (The Illustrated Edition)
Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris` `Venice`, Orhan Pamuk`s bestselling `Istanbul: Memories of a City` is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.Since the publication of Istanbul, Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul. Now, he has selected a range of photographs for
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
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
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
Letters from the Lighthouse
We weren`t supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren`t even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother
The Lesser Bohemians
The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons, and
The Devil and Webster
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN PRIZEOn the elite New England campus of Webster College, a student protest is underway. Initially supported by Webster`s first female president, the former activist Naomi Roth, the protest begins to grow and fester, attracting the media. Attention becomes focused on one charismatic student, a Palestinian immigrant named Omar, as rising tensions
Love Poems
In this new anthology, poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love
Secrets of a Sun King
London, 1922.A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .A cursed package . . .The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad`s doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England!The mysterious
Hack and Whack
Hack and Whack – two angelic looking Viking toddler twins – are on the attack! As they go marauding around their village, upsetting the apple carts, little do they know there is a force far more powerful than they: their mum! The story ends on the terrible two being plunged into a cold bath!Gloriously funny,
Time to be in Earnest
In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
A wonderful meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed. In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as
The Black Album
Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid`s academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother Chili, who, with his Armani suits and Gucci loafers, moves into Shahid`s
Sunset City
Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte`s life unravels and she descends into the city`s underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in
The Boy Who Hit Play
`It`s time,` I say. `For … It. Me. You. Us. The bench. The zoo. The question. Why?`The only thing that Elvis Crampton Lucas knows about where he`s from is that he was found on the bench at a zoo. And that his now father took him home in a Stetson hat, and named him after
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as `a mirror of England` (Walter de la Mare). This new edition offers a
The Night of Wenceslas
The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights. “Quite simply the best thriller writer around.” (Spectator). Nicolas Whistler is young, bored and in debt. When an opportunity to make some money arises, he can`t turn it down. He is sent to Prague to carry out a simple assignment, but he soon finds
Capital
From the bestselling author of Whoops! and The Debt to Pleasure comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth. Featuring a contemporary cast of characters that crosses race, class and religion, Capital is the moving and hugely topical story of one street caught on the brink of the crash. Capital:
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother`s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the
Quick, Barney . . . RUN!
It`s raining, it`s pouring.And Daddy is snoring.Mummy is working.Oh, EVERYTHING`S BORING.What can Ruby Roo do on a rainy day? Use her imagination! This jaunty, thrilling rhyming text sees these two intrepid explorers jet off to the jungle in their cardboard seaplane, and swing through the exotic pot plant canopy . . . encountering some strangely
