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Penguin Random House Pocket At...Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could ... Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her own, taking us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. Perfect maps jostle with cryptic... more
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The Adventures of Huckleberry ...Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a be... Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley "a sequel to Tom Sawyer" more
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Island Reich: The atmospheric ...AN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The grippi... AN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the award-winning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow more
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Islands of Profit in a Sea of ...Companies around the world turn to MIT's Jonathan Byrnes for one reason: he ca... Companies around the world turn to MIT's Jonathan Byrnes for one reason: he can figure out where the profit is. He shows them which customers and businesses are cash cows, and which efforts are just a drain on resources. Most astonishingly, in eac more
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Granite Island - A Portrait of...”Get away from here before you`re completely bewitched and enslaved...”Dorothy... ”Get away from here before you`re completely bewitched and enslaved...”Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman`s cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. `Granite Island`, much more than a travel book, grew out... more
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The Island of Missing TreesShortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Fiction with a ... Shortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Fiction with a Sense of PlaceA rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of `10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World`It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers,... more
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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor,...In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his... In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife... more
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Anne of the Island By L M Mont...As her childhood friends get married and move away Anne too leaves Prince Edwa... As her childhood friends get married and move away Anne too leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport Although Priscilla Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there too she feels lonely and out of place But Anne soon makes new friends one of whom is... more
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The Island: Hidden Iceland Ser...FEATURED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR'The ending really took my... FEATURED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR'The ending really took my breath away' IAN RANKINDiscover The Island - Agatha Christie meets Nordic n more
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Where Are the Galapagos Island...Armchair adventurers can set sail for the remote Galapagos Islands and learn a... Armchair adventurers can set sail for the remote Galapagos Islands and learn about the strange and unique animals that live there.The Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands located on either side of the equator more
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On The Island: The emotionally...It would always be summer on the island...THE EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING AND ADDICTI... It would always be summer on the island...THE EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING AND ADDICTIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I cannot put into words the love I have for Anna and T.J. I f more
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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor,...**A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In t... **A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two."There had been something elemen more
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The Island'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of ... 'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is more
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The Last Tree on Easter IslandIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental mo... In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civiliza more
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Treasure IslandA stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous adventure story in ... A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous adventure story in the world. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead... more
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The Last Tree on Easter IslandThis is Jared Diamond`s haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone stat... This is Jared Diamond`s haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.Jared Diamond (b.1937) is... more
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The Island of Doctor Moreau'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult th... 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single su more
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Caribou IslandOn a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriag... On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling.Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Followin more
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Treasure IslandPerhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Isl... Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It ha more
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The Teatime Islands: Adventure...Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mo... Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mocked mercilessly for his trouble, Ben Fogle visited the last flag-flying outposts of the British Empire.With caution, dignity and a spare pair of pants thrown to more
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