Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
Zorba the Greek: Faber Modern Classics
Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family and many lovers, has fought in the
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland: Faber Children`s Classics
Curiouser and curiouser…When Alice takes a tumble following the White Rabbit, she finds herself in a world in which nothing is what it is, because everything is what it isn`t. But can Alice make sense of the nonsense in the land of the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat? And will
The Children of Castle Rock
When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it`s nothing like she imagines. Run by the mysterious Major, there are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme survival than maths or English!Then Alice`s dad goes missing and she must run away to find
Black Water
John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he`s already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman
Come All You Little Persons
From above earth, from above sky,from below earth, from under water,come all you little personscome exactly as you are.Come little bird person, come little bee person, come little tree person – little persons from all over the world join together to celebrate the dance of life and love in this stunning poem from John Agard.
Rotten Row
It is just after nine o`clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds.`Rotten Row` is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects of this mesmerising collection of stories. In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption,
Infused: Adventures in Tea
Henrietta Lovell is best known as `The Rare Tea Lady`. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens
I Saw a Man
The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons` house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with the Nelson family
4 3 2 1
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson`s life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson`s story
Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man
Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with a carving of the Green Man at an ancient church leads Nina Lyon on a search to track him down in all his various guises. Against a backdrop of mountains, forests, rivers
Love + Hate: Stories and Essays
Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi`s acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka`s relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make
Dry Bones in the Valley
“A tough, edgy thriller…readers are going to love this. I wish like hell that my name were on the cover.” (Wiley Cash, New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2014 Gold Dagger for This Dark Road to Mercy). Edgar Nominated for Best First Novel, 2014. Shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award – Thriller/Mystery.
A Deadly Thaw
Autumn 2004. In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016 A year after Lena`s release from prison, Andrew is found dead in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago, and who committed the second murder? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, sets out to
Last Train from Kummersdorf
Set in Germany in 1945, this is the story of a boy, Hanno, and a girl, Effi. Hanno is on the run, having just seen his twin brother killed. Effi is streetwise. She has learned the hard way that she must keep her secrets to herself – and she`s even less keen to trust Hanno
The Long Room
What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists and ineffectual revolutionaries, until the day he is assigned a new
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
Winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearFor all the desert`s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand.One third of the
Little Warrior
This is a heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner. Little warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-torn Somalia determined to be a world-class sprinter. She sleeps
Don`t Tell Me You`re Afraid
Based on a remarkable true story, `Don`t Tell Me You`re Afraid` is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope. Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her bed and trains hard. After achieving a place on the
The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics
The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro`s place as one of the world`s greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it`s “a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance”. This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England
