Private McAuslan was 'the biggest walking disaster to hit the Army'. Loosely based on his own experiences in a Scottish regiment, and written with rare humour, a sense of the …
'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William BoydIn parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of …
The stunning debut of a talented young travel writer.'South from Barbary' - as 19th-century Europeans knew North Africa - is the compelling account of Justin Marozzi's 1,500-mile …
We think we know the Sahara, the largest and most austere desert on Earth - yet it is full of surprises, as Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle reveal in this biography of the land …
