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

• Rok vydání 2005

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…

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

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…

• Rok vydání 2016

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

• Rok vydání 2013

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.…

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation…

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

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

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

• 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…

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

• Rok vydání 2011

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

• Rok vydání 2017

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

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

Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the…

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

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

• Čeština

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…

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

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

Provides observations on a range of subjects such as: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the…