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Travels in an Old Tongue
Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided …
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - …
The Pirate
The third novel from the acclaimed author of The Pied Piper’s Poison and The Resurrection Club Leaving behind a dowdy northern winter for the warming delights of the …
Going Home
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up. In 1956, some seven years after departed for …
Tree of Pearls
The final volume in the Angeline Gower trilogy. Angeline Gower is back home in Britain, back safe, back in her own bath. Right on cue, that's when trouble arrives, back for another …
The Sewing Circles of Herat
As a young reporter, Christina Lamb risked all to experience the real Afghanistan. This memoir recounts her return, years later, as she unmasks a cross-section of its society, from …
In Babylon
Sixty-year-old Nathan Hollander is stranded in a blizzard with his niece, Nina. As they wait for the weather to improve, he tells the story of their forefathers - a family of …
The Broken Chariot
A superb creation of love, life and class in the post-war world. When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang was seven, his parents – as loving, as doting as any parents of their …
The Temptation of Jack Orkney
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories. Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the …
The German Numbers Woman
A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers. Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of awareness, and can …
The Journey Home
When Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburbia meets Shay, an older, wilder image of himself, he is cast out into the night-time world of Dublin. This is the story of a …
