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'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...

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'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant...

Mini Travel Inspirations Bargain Book Box Dreaming of your next escape? Yearning for adventure but don't know where to start? Our Mini Travel Inspirations Bargain Book Box is your passport to wanderlust,...

Author: Adrian McKinty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 "IRRESISTIBLE AND PULSE-POUNDING" Karin Slaughter "A TENSE, PACY PAGE-TURNER" GUARDIAN "BRILLIANT AND RELENTLESS" Don Winslow The unmissable new thriller from the...

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty...

In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian...

**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...

An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit of Alex Kerr's half-century...

Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Travelling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself...

The hilarious number one bestselling memoir from YouTube sensation Chris Broad, a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the...

'Matthiessen's book is a triumph that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece' John Hillaby Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature...

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Author: J. T. Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ****** THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY 'You will laugh and cry,...

***Shortlisted for the 2023 STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR******A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2022***"Enchanting" Independent"Fatland distinguishes herself from the stereotypes" Guardian "Fatland is a sensitive and...

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025* 'Packed with anecdote and colour, it's...

A beautiful tour of Britain's greatest gardens, classic and modern. Inspiration and escapism for every gardener. A unique tour of thirty of Britain's most beautiful gardens, classic and modern. A...

From the director of the wildly popular Bush Mechanics and Black As - a can-do guide for your next outback adventure filled with practical advice, ripper yarns and road-trip tips....

"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 An unforgettable journey through...

A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another...

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A joyful ode to the enormous benefits of this most simple of activities, from one of the world's greatest explorers From the bestselling author of Silence comes an illuminating examination...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard...

'Extraordinary - a remarkable and satisfying book' Observer Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities...

New to Black Classics Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BEST DRINK BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 'The book follows the seasons, and does a smart job of being elegiac and a little magical without...

We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, they have shaped our history and might one...

Escape into A World of Cozy Bookstores . A Colouring Book for Book Lovers. Step into a realm where every page allows you to de-stress and unleash your creativity. A...

A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts,...

Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...

The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owl The forests near to where...

'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...

An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America's epic past and fascinating present to life Stretching from the edge of Antarctica to the shores of the Caribbean,...

New to Penguin Classics In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Tony Birch, Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a stunning collection of exhilarating poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties that...

Now a major film, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth. . . When schoolteacher Tom Michell...

An immersive journey through the tumultuous past and fascinating present of Australia's nearest neighbours "We are the original people of the region ... This is a black region, it's not...

" Tom Chesshyre is the consummate traveller, who makes you want to experience all his adventures and mishaps for yourself. " - Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail: The Making...

Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later. Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously...

Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited...

Escape into A World of Cozy Bookstores . A Colouring Book for Book Lovers. Step into a realm where every page allows you to de-stress and unleash your creativity. A...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

Photographer Marco Paoluzzo first became interested in China decades ago, yet the passionate world traveller refused to visit the country for political reasons until 1998. At that time, two friends...

'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to the lure of the open...

The Great North Road is Britain's Route 66 - we've just forgotten how to sing its praises In 1921, Britain's most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, ceased to exist...

'Home seems impossibly far away as we step out onto a rough base of ice and snow. The temperature is -25 C. This is considered warm . . .' Michael...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past...