Great British Railway Journeys
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a journey along nine classic British railway routes and surround themselves with the history, the charm...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century and Modern
Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book’s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on...
- Location(s): Crete, Athens
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
‘I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972. Can you help me?’ On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak,...
- Location(s): Greece, The Mediterranean
- Genre(s): Children, Young Adult
- Era(s): Various
This collection contains more than 30 enthralling new retellings of favourite myths as well as some you might not have heard before! Including Theseus and the Minotaur, The Twelve Labours of Herakles, and the escapades of Jason and the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s / WW2
No 13 in the Bernie Gunther series…. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther’s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have...
- Location(s): Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his...
- Location(s): Greenwich
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Helen has it all… Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class,...
- Location(s): Auckland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much in common. They’re flatmates, beholden to the same near-unpronounceable surname, and both make questionable choices when it comes to love. Valdin is in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who left the...
- Location(s): Sayulita
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
“A Year in Provence” meets “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” in this lively and entertaining account of a couple’s year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for “AARP” magazine about...
- Location(s): Ceredigion
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s
In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they both explore and...
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