In To a Mountain in Tibet Colin Thubron undertakes a very personal & reflective journey to the sacred Mount Kailas, joining Buddhist & Hindu pilgrims on an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the holy slopes of the mountain. Thubron ...

TOP TEN BESTSELLER Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world`s mountains
- holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the
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Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 & promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life & love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families & history reassert their claim & the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds. Forty years later, finally `old enough to understand how young I was back then` Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends. To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal & the political, about love & home & about the cruel & merciful law of unintended consequences. ...

Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she`s ever loved. When she writes, she can pour out her heart & soul & say all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, & suddenly Lara Jean`s love life goes from imaginary to out of control. NOW A FEATURE FILM With a new movie tie-in cover! ...

An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of & the Land lay Still Douglas is fifty years old
- he`s just lost his job, been kicked out by his girlfriend & moved back into his dad`s house. Just when things are starting to look hopeless, he makes a very unexpected new friend: a talking toad. Mungo is a wise-cracking, straight-talking, no-nonsense kind of toad
- & he is determined to get Douglas`s life back on track. Together, man & beast undertake a madcap quest to the distant Highlands, hot on the trail of a hundred-year-old granny, a beautiful Greek nymph, a split-personality alcoholic/teetotaller, a reluctant whisky-smuggler, & the elusive glimmer of redemption.. .

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Guided by its various twists & turns, To Catch a King tells the story the manhunt for Charles II, following the rebellion that spurred his father`s beheading in 1649. This unputdownable sequel to Killers of the King tells an old story with new eyes, challenging our polarised notions of royalism, nationalism & loyalty. In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall & Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell`s armies at the battle of Worcester. With 3, 000 of his supporters lying dead & 10, 000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught & follow his father to the block? At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries & with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell`s soldiers on his tail & a vast price on his head? The next six weeks would form the most memorable & dramatic of Charles` life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception & relying on grit, fortitude & good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree
- an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; Charles disguising himself as a servant & as one half of an eloping couple to escape capture. Charles never forgot those who helped him &, when restored to the throne as Charles II, told the tale of his adventures to Samuel Pepys who transcribed it all. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys` account & many others to retell this epic story. With bloodied feet & facing certain death if caught, Charles relied upon a patchwork of hiding places that had evolved to hide Catholics from lethal persecution. Now, in the 1650s, they saved the life of a king.
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall & Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell`s armies at the battle of Worcester. With 3, 000 of his supporters lying dead & 10, 000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught & follow his father to the block? At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries & with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell`s soldiers on his tail & a vast price on his head? The next six weeks would form the most memorable & dramatic of Charles` life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception & relying on grit, fortitude & good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree
- an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; he disguised himself as a servant & as one half of an eloping couple. Once restored to the throne as Charles II, he told the tale of his escapades to Samuel Pepys, who transcribed it all. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys`s account & many others to retell this epic adventure.
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The Paris-Dakar Rally is without doubt the most arduous & notorious off-road motorsport event on the planet. Considered one of the world`s top five adventures, the human drama that unfolds each January is unparalleled. Tales of danger, blinding sandstorms, endless vistas of towering dunes, incredible hardships, tragedy & triumph have greatly contributed to the aura & mystique of the rally. In To Dakar & Back, Hacking, with De Clercq recount the three weeks of blood, sweat & tears that took him from the glitz of Paris to the hinterland of North Africa. ...

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities & shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother & sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically opposed -- he a career soldier, she a committed pacifist; the politician whose job was to send young men who refused conscription to prison, yet whose godson was one of those young men & the suffragette sisters, one of whom passionately supported the war & one of whom was equally passionately opposed to it. Through these divided families, Hochschild paints a vivid picture of Britain poised between the optimism of the Victorian era & the era of Auschwitz & the Gulag -- a divided country, fractured by the seismic upheaval of the Great War & its aftermath. ...

Harry Morgan was hard
- the classic Hemingway hero
- rum-running, gun-running & man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in

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