THE
VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX
Author: Maggie O’Farrell
ISBN: 0-7553-32229
Price: $24.95
Fiction
Moving between the 1930s and the present, bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell’s new novel is an unforgettable portrait of a woman edited out of her family's history. The heartbreaking tale of two sisters in colonial India and Edinburgh bound together by loneliness and driven apart by rivalries that lead to a cruel betrayal, it is also the gripping story of how, sixty years later, their shocking secret comes to light. An impassioned, intense, haunting family drama, this novel is a stunning imagining of a life stolen, and reclaimed.
VICTORIAN
LONDON
Author: Liza Picard
ISBN: 0 297 84733 3
Price: $45.00
Non Fiction
Liza Picard's three previous London books have been acclaimed for originality and humour, their illuminating details and unexpected facts. This new book on one of the city's most exciting periods, draws on a huge wealth of raw material, including unpublished journals and diaries: from baths to bankruptcy, royalty to rag-gatherings, from families, furniture and food, to skirts, sex and shipbuilding; from Thomas Cook to Thomas Crapper. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with steam-operated underground trains and Gilbert & Sullivan.
VOYAGEUR
Author: Robert Twigger
ISBN: 0-297-829815 / 978-0-7532-148-0
Price: $29.95 / $16.95
Non Fiction
Fifteen years before Lewis and Clarke, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie crossed Canada in a birchbark canoe. That was in 1793. Over two centuries later, Robert Twigger and his band of fellow adventurers, assorted tree-cutters and travellers – voyageurs, - attempt the same journey: 2000 miles from Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean, 1500 against the current, in a home-made boat, an Indian totem attached to the bow, and on a diet of porridge and elk, some whiskey and a bag of grass. Voyageur is a kind of road-trip by canoe, a journey through the desolate wonder of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
VULNERABLE
IN HEARTS
Author: Sandy Balfour
ISBN: 1-55278-576-9 / 978-1-55278-630-7
Price: $29.95 / $16.95
Non
Fiction
Sandy Balfour's father and the game of contract bridge were both conceived in 1925. But whereas Tom Balfour was the child of a bank clerk and a schoolteacher and was born ina modest apartment in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the game he came to love had an altogether more distinguished lineage.
Vulnerable in Hearts spans the eight decades of Tom Balfour’s life and the same period in the epic story of Bridge’s spread around the world. Sandy Balfour’s moving and delightfully original book traces both journeys to explore the relationship between a game and an empire (and the rules that supported it); and a father and a son.
Part memoir, part history, part entertainment, Vulnerable in Hearts is a poignant meditation on how we communicate, why we play games; and the ways in which we love.
“Balfour has written an engaging, informative book. Its combination of family memoir and bridge lore works well, and above all has a light touch.” – The Literary Review
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