Travel Writing

Pat Boran / The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (Large Paperback)

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Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback)

 Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of...

Adrian Gill / The Best of A. A. Gill

 For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our...

Brendan McManus / Redemption Road : Grieving on the Camino (Large Paperback)

 An Irish Jesuit priest walks the Camino as he struggles to come to terms with his brother's suicide, finding remption at the end of his journey.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Alex Garland / The Weekenders : Travels in the Heart of Africa

  What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of...

V. S. Naipaul / An Area of Darkness

 AN AREA OF DARKNESS is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay,...

Conor Woodman / The Adventure Capitalist

 Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for...

Levison Wood / Eastern Horizons

 Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history...

Francis Gimblett / In and Out of Africa : In Search of Gerard Depardieu

 Francis Gimblett is "The Wine Adventurer" and this book sees him discovering wine-making on the wild side. A journey that starts at a London talk show and ends in North Africa's Atlas mountains, this is the story of people making extraordinary wine...

Tim Moore / French Revolutions

  Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows,...

Hilary Bradt / Dingle Peggy

 The continuation of the journey on horseback through the west Ireland described in Connemara Mollie. With her replacement pony, Peggy, the author travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning...

Patricia OReilly / Writing for the Market

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Kathryn Thomas / Off the Beaten Track (Large Paperback)

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Rosita Boland / Elsewhere (Large Paperback)

 From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a...

Chris Bonington / Tibet's Secret Mountain (Hardback)

 In the last decade of the twentieth century it is almost unbelievable that a mountain range of length comparable to the entire Nepal Himalaya should still remain a vague notion to the geographers and exploratory mountaineers. But such is the...

Marlena De Blasi / A Thousand Days In Tuscany

 Continuing from A Thousand Days in Venice, this is the story of Marlena and her Venetian husband, Fernando, as they make a life for themselves in rural Tuscany.Amongst the many people they befriend is Barluzzo, an old sage who takes the couple...

Barbara Fitzgibbon / Going West (Large Paperback)

  Frank and Barbara Fitzgibbon, an ordinary couple in their fifties, were running their own business in Cork when they felt an urge to do something memorable while they were still healthy. They decided to take a two-year sabbatical, sold their...

Colin OBrien / Giro d'Italia

  The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals,...

John Burton Race / French Leave

  French Leave, tie-in to the major TV series directed by Pat Llewellyn, who discovered Jamie Oliver and the Two Fat Ladies, follows two-star Michelin chef John Burton Race, his wife, six children and Labrador dog as they escape everyday life in...

Julia Bell / The Creative Writing Coursebook (Large Paperback)

 The success of the writing courses at UEA belies the myth that writing can't be taught. This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: Gathering - getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using...

Paul Kilduff / Ruinairski (Large Paperback)

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Paul Kilduff / Ruinair (Large Paperback)

 Kilduff travels on a cheap Irish airline led by a self-proclaimed `obnoxious little bollocks', that flies from A to somewhere remotely near B, weighs baggage as if it was gold, charges passengers to check-in or to use a wheelchair, sells them...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters Of Light (Hardback)

  Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.A short visit to Fairbanks...

Lawrence Donegan / No News at Throat Lake (Hardback)

  This text presents a Guardian journalist's account of his year working on the Tirconail Tribune - only 12 pages long, with a circulation of 2500. Serving the people of the Donegal coast, the paper is published in the small coastal town of...

Colm Toibin / The Sign of the Cross

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Dara O Briain / Tickling the English (Hardback)

  Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence...these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in "Tickling the English". O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his...

Robert Macfarlane / The Old Ways (Hardback)

 The Old Ways is the stunning fourth book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways,...

John McCormack / A Story of Dublin (Large Paperback)

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Gavin Young / Slow Boats Home

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Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Jan Morris / Venice

 Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular...

Kathleen Jamie / Surfacing

 Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline,...

Rosita Boland / Elsewhere

 'Utterly engaging.' - Sunday TimesFrom her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little...

Daniel Smith / Is Their Alot Wrong With This Centence? (Large Paperback)

  English is a complicated language - and every now and then we all need a little help in getting it right. Is Their Alot Wrong With This Centence? takes you through the basics of grammar, punctuation and spelling, providing clear and concise...

Charley Boorman / Long Way Down (Large Paperback)

  After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan Mc Gregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew they had to go back and...

Monty Halls / Monty Halls' Great Irish Escape (Large Paperback)

 Former Royal Marine Monty Halls and his faithful canine companion, Reuben, won the hearts of viewers and readers with his adventures on the west coast of Scotland in Monty Halls' Great Escape. In this adventure, Monty and Reuben escape to Connemara...

Bill Bryson / Notes from a Small Island (Hardback)

  By the author of "The Lost Continent" and "Neither Here Nor There". Bryson moved to England in 1978 and settled in North Yorkshire. In this book, he turns an affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country.       All of...

Peter Carey / 30 Days in Sydney

  After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as...

Adharanand Finn / Running with the Kenyans

 Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearShortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardWinner - Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book AwardsAfter years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance...

Joseph O'Connor / Sweet Liberty : Travels in Irish America (Hardback)

  In this tour across America, the author discovers how Irish the seven Dublins within seven different states are. The book also investigates how much Irish music, from its traditional ballads and folk songs to the band U2, has influenced...

Mikael Lindnord / Arthur (Hardback)

 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe heart-warming true story of an incredible rescue dog. When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly...

Dave Gorman / Too Much Information

 It's hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about - and everything you don't even know you want to know about - isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world...

Stephen Cartmell / From Aintree to York

 Writer and psychologist Stephen Cartmell set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the UK's 60 racecourses as his staging posts. During his travels the author observed the frequent absurdity of the British, the peculiarities of...

Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily

  A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister...

Mary Russell / The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt

  What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? What did Hester Stanhope and...

Charley Boorman / Race To Dakar (Large Paperback)

  In January 2006, 230 people raced in trucks, cars and motorbikes from Lisbon to Dakar in the 28th annual Dakar rally -- the most dangerous race in the world. Taking part was a team of three bikers: Matt Hall, Simon Pavey ...and actor and bike...

Simon Reeve / Step By Step (Hardback)

 Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Award'My goodness, it is brilliant. Searingly honest, warm, bursting with humanity. Such brave and inspiring writing.' Kate Humble'[Simon] begins to fill in the gaps in his life story that until recently he...

Colin Irwin / In Search of the Craic

  It travels well, but still there's nothing quite like hearing Irish music in Ireland. Not in big concert halls or grand arenas, or even the popular taverns on the tourist route, but in the small pubs in remote areas where the locals habitually...

Tim Parks / Italian Ways : On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

 'All Italy is here' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years...

Jenny Diski / Stranger On A Train

  In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to...

Eric Newby / Love and War in the Apennines

  Eric Newby escapes through a hospital window to become a POW on the run in Italy in 1943. With the Nazis moving in from the North and no certain way back to England, his situation appears grim. But with the help of local farmers and villagers,...

Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

  The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand...