Flamingo

Frank McCourt´s glorious childhood memoir, Angela´s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of...

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than...

Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy....

South from Barbary is the compelling account of an epic 1,500-mile journey by camel across the Libyan Sahara, retracing the old slave trade routes from the coast of North Africa...