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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
Author: Helena Attlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
Author: Shona Riddell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping....
Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
Author: David Winner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation...
Pier Review A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside
Author: Jon Bounds Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 I have always found the idea of the 'English Riviera' comical, the sort of gentle self-mocking humour that we...
Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with Rene Redzepi
Author: Jeff Gordinier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Feeling stuck in his life, New York Times food writer Jeff Gordinier met Rene Redzepi, the Danish chef whose restaurant, Noma,...
Walking the Woods and the Water In Patrick Leigh Fermors Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
Author: Nick Hunt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 in 1933, the eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm...
Cuba A Cultural History
Author: Alan West-Duran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Cuba is a rare and fascinating place. In a world where revolutionary socialism seems an almost quaint reminder of the Cold...
Lands of Lost Borders A Journey on the Silk Road
Author: Kate Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a...
Great American Railroad Journeys
Author: Rt Hon Michael Portillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Michael Portillo can be seen on screens on his second railway journey across the United States. His first took...
Thomas Mores Magician A Novel Account of Utopia in Mexico
Author: Toby Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In September 1532, eleven years after the Spanish conquest, Mexico is in meltdown. As the conquistadors discover an earthly...
The Epic City The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Author: Kushanava Choudhury Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum...