• Rok vydání 2001

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of…

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…

• Rok vydání 2013

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

• Rok vydání 2019

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

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the…

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 1983

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

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

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

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed…

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