Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy.…

Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus…

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As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a…

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Maugham keenly observes, and…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANELopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its…

Tells a story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly…

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. His fascinating attempt to capture…

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Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original…

Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey…

He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they…

Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread…

**Shortlisted for the 2017 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards****Shortlisted for the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food Book…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher…

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'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse…

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly…

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In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long…

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its…

*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*`Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' ObserverBestselling travel writer Horatio Clare…

Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither…

This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the…

TOP TEN BESTSELLERMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Having recently…

Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the…

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How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village…

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and…

High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for…