Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
The History of History – A Novel of Berlin
Written in 1959 Gรผnter Grass’ character-driven novel follows the life of Oskar Matzerath, an insane dwarf born in Danzig (now Gdansk) on the Polish-German border, prior to World War II.The use of magical realism that returns throughout this picaresque tale and purported autobiography starts when Oskar at the age of three declares that he would
My Name is Red
“My Name Is Red” by legendary author Omar Pamuk is set in the late 1590s, at the court of an Ottoman Sultan who has commissioned a great book: a celebration of his life and empire, to be illuminated, in the European manner, by the best artists of the day. In a time of violent fundamentalism,
Contact! – A Book of Glimpses
Winner of the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding Contribution to Travel WritingIn `Contact!`, Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating
Welcome to Lagos
Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity. They are unlikely allies — a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young girl. They share a need for escape and a dream for the future. Soon, they will also share a burden none of them expected, but
Hate: A Romance
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals – Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism – come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, `I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present.` He was a man in a hurry, `running about on railroads` from
Parrot & Olivier in America
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for
The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy,
New Irish Short Stories
Edited by Joseph O`Connor (author of “Star of the Sea” and “Ghost Light”), “New Irish Short Stories” is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short
Never Let Me Go
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham
The Wolf Border
For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and
The Remains of the Day – Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize
Winner of 1989 Booker PrizeFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of `Never Let Me Go`. A contemporary classic, `The Remains of the Day` is Kazuo Ishiguro`s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely
A Pale View of the Hills
In his highly acclaimed debut, “A Pale View of Hills”, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild
Sunset Park
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7
The Emperor of Lies
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto`s very existence. From one of Scandinavia`s most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, “The Emperor
