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

A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast…

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…

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…

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

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

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while.…

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

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind What begins as the record of a…

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

In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered, Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teaching and her…

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

One of the great works of mountaineering literatureWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000…

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

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

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

In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a…

A remarkable quest rich in literature, classics and architecture, Journey Into Cyprus ingeniously intertwines the history…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His…

50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORDescribed by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to…

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

Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to…

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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…

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

Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an…

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and…

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

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

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath…

In this moving sequel to The Lost World of the Kalahari van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore…

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

The author fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, an isolated…

Gita Mehta's captivating and enchanting novel tells the story of a retired beurocrat who has escaped the world to spend his…