FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel. Middle-class Hans is…

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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…

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

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

Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of `model' villages which sprang…

These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with…

Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern…

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

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

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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…

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

**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…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017`This is travel writing at its best.' Katherine Norbury, Observer An Observer Book of…

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and…

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

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

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

How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to…

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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…

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

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From the author of INTO THE SILENCE, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took…

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

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A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland\'s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. Hanna, Dan,…

Jane's son David is eight years old and Jane is filled with doubts as he grows up without a father. Then there is Andy,…

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Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the…

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

In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world's fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi.…