Browse by category
Albert 'Pompey' Austin - A Man Between Two Worlds by Roy Hay
Category: Other
Biography of Indigenous sports person
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: About artist Walter Spies in Bali during WWII
"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about for the summer" Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times In m ...Show more
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and "one of India's greatest living authors" (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was kno ...Show more
All the World at War - People and Places, 1914-1918 by James Charles Roy
Category: Military History
While battles and wars and 'the clash of civilizations' are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the conflagration of 1914-1918 was something unique and terrifyingly new. There was not a corner of the globe that did not feel its effects, some more than others, but the scope of its impact on ...Show more
Alpine Renault: The Fabulous Berlinettes by Roy Smith
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS
The berlinettes were fragile, beautifully designed, lightweight road rockets. For the first time, Alpine Renault enthusiasts around the world can read the complete history of them in English. This book is not just for owners of Alpine Renaults, but for all those interested in rallying and its spectacula ...Show more
American Vandal by Roy Morris
Category: Culture
For a man who liked being called "the" American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books "The Innocents Abroad," "A Tramp Abroad," and "Following the Eq ...Show more
An Anzac's Story by Roy Kyle
Category: Military
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
Category: Fiction
The servant boy of the house, Mukunda, a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion is the very best friend of Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house. Mukunda and Bakul spend their days reading the books of Mrs Barnum, their Anglo-Englishwoman neighbou ...Show more
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
Category: Fiction
Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the mot ...Show more