Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Cry
He`s gone. And telling the truth won`t bring him back…When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other.
My Father`s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain
This is a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family; a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at its heart. A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say goodbye to his dying father. In
History of the Arab Peoples
In a work of profound and lasting importance, Albert Hourani tells the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. A History of the Arab Peoples is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship
A Curious Life For A Lady: The Story Of Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and began her pioneering journeys to some of the most inhospitable corners of the world. Undismayed by discomfort or danger she was to spend almost thirty years travelling
The Expats
This book is the winner of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller winner of the Edgar and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel. “Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted.” (Patricia Cornwell). “Smart, clever suspense, skilfully plotted, and a lot of fun to read.” (John Grisham). Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted
Ghosts Of Spain
The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe`s most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalisimo Francisco Franco? The appearance – sixty years after that war ended – of mass graves containing victims of Franco`s death squads has finally broken
Lord of the Flies
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys`
Palo Alto
“Palo Alto” is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place “Palo Alto” traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny: Volume 1
Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to life, from his dangerous Corsican roots to the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland. Here is the incredible story of how one man`s sheer determination, ruthlessness and careful calculation drove France to conquer
Custody
When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom…Meanwhile, Ishita, a failed marriage behind her, finds another chance at happiness with Raman. But when the courts threaten the security of
Running With The Kenyans
Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year. It is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards. After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world`s biggest long-distance races, Runner`s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that
Blood on the Altar
One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women`s hair on the back of buses. Elisa`s family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible
Dream Of The Celt
As “The Dream of the Celt” opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London`s Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he
Drifting House
Drifting House is a dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, Krys Lee`s haunting stories weave together intricate tales of family and
Oracle Night
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that
Death of a Showgirl
A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone missing from her home in the Italian capital. Castagnetti, the private detective hired by her parents, trawls the streets of Rome, finding himself drawn into the dark, erotic world of a TV empire belonging to a media mogul turned politician called Mario Di Angelo. He unearths a
The Brooklyn Follies
`I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain …` So begins Paul Auster`s remarkable novel, “The Brooklyn Follies”. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan
Enough is Enough
The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the `Celtic Tiger` of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a
Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II`s accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majesty`s reign. An all star line up – which includes such celebrated writers as Simon Armitage,
True History of the Kelly Gang
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize”I lost my own father at 12 years of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I
