Meet the residents of ‘a shit B&B in a half-forgotten bit of East Manchester’ – Ken’s words, and he ought to know, he’s lived in room 1 for twenty-two years. Angel’s in room 3 – she’s got herself clean...

Please read the Len Palmer books in order. This is no.2, start with Snow Job Len Palmer, a ski-lift designer, is looking for work. After the disastrous end of the HiFly megalift (Snow Job – the first Len Palmer...

In this powerful call to action, Oscar-nominated film star Don Cheadle and human rights advocate John Prendergast shine an unsparing spotlight on the genocide in Darfur — a targeted ethnic extermination chillingly described as “Rwanda in slow motion.” The...

From celebrated author Jane Yolen comes this inspiring collection of folktales from around the world, all featuring strong female heroes. These fifteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, bold, brave women–and not one damsel in distress! There is...

In Not Quite Lost, Roz Morris celebrates the hidden dramas in the apparently ordinary. Her childhood home, with a giant star-gazing telescope on the horizon and a garden path that disappears under next door’s house. A tour guide in...

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage   Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn,...

This is the story of a drowning, a heatwave and a painting that shouldn’t exist. The death of octogenarian sea swimmer Maud Smith doesn’t excite much interest in the Devon seaside town of Dormouth, but it changes the lives...

When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African...

Eloise is an erratic, faded fashionista. Bradley is a glum but wily teenager. In need of help to write her racy 1960s memoirs, the former ‘shock frock’ fashion guru tolerates his common ways. Unable to remember his name, she...

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes – even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world’s...