Sailing Alone : A History by Richard J. King

Sailing Alone : A History by Richard J. King'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen'Colourful and inventive' The TimesSailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out

Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

And then one day

and to use the traditional magic of the Farseer family

a little bit proud

'Alun's consistency over such a long time has been amazing

An animal fairy tale by Axel Scheffler

A Jeeves novel

and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large

- Beautiful illustrations by popular artist Johnny Lambert

Many of Hong Kong's most influential figures during its first century as a city were neither British nor Chinese - they were Malay or Indian

There's a naughtiness