Travel Writing

Helen Russell / The Year of Living Danishly : Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

 * NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTER *'A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land.'- GuardianGiven the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, Helen...

Peter Biddlecombe / Never Feel a Stranger

  Dogs tucked into handbags, verbally polluted airline companions, electronic hotel door keys and ridiculous money pouches worn by xenophobic English tourists - these are just a few of Peter...

Edward Enfield / Freewheeling Through Ireland

  'At one moment you seem to be in the Lake District; then you could be on the moon; then you are in a wilderness; and then beside a Norwegian fjord.' When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland,...

John Ryan / Stories You Wouldn't Tell Your Mother : Backpacker Tales (Large Paperback)

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Christopher Winn / I Never Knew That About Scotland (Hardback)

  The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this...

Charley Boorman / Right To The Edge (Large Paperback)

  Charley Boorman returns with a brand-new adventure, travelling from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan...by any means! Using quad bikes, hovercrafts, wooden...

Tobias Jones / Utopian Dreams

  Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality...

Tiziano Terzani / A Fortune-Teller Told Me

 Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to...

Paul Gleeson / Little Lady One Man Big Ocean: Rowing the Atlantic (Hardback)

  Two non-rowers take on one of life's great challenges: the Atlantic. Paul Gleeson & Tori Holmes enlist the help of Irishmen Eamonn and Peter Kavanagh to train them for the 2005/06 trans-Atlantic...

Helena Frith Powell / More More France Please

  What do you do when a semi-feral dog bites off the nose of a guest at your first French dinner? What when the well dries up? What do you say to your French mistress? Where to go if you don't...

Kyle MacDonald / One Red Paperclip (Large Paperback)

 A red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise...

Ernesto Che Guevara / The Motorcycle Diaries (Large Paperback)

 A new edition from Ocean Press of the young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary is publishedto coincide with the new movie from Robert Redford and Walter Salles based on...

Simon Garfield / On The Map

 Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google...

Ben Judah / This is London

 This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians...

David Bennun / Tick Bite Fever

 Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood.In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. His father,...

Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback)

 In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to...

Mary Russell / My Home is Your Home

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Kathleen Jamie / Sightlines

 The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing?In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen...

Michelle De Kretser / Brief Encounters : Stories of Love, Sex and Travel

  This collection of stories from 22 authors from around the world concerns travel romances. A tourist in Peru falls for her handsome guide; a writer explores the ambiguities of his relationship...

Isabella L. Bird / A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

  In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding...

E.OE. Somerville / In the Vine Country

  Somerville and Ross wrote many travel books charting their experiences throughout Ireland and abroad. In the Vine Country is an account of a tour through the Medoc county, where they discover...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Rory Coveney / Voyage of Hope : Sail Chernobyl (Hardback)

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pamela Petro / Travels in an Old Tongue

  Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided to go where...

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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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...

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...

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,...

Marjorie Quarton / Part-Time Writer (Large Paperback)

  "Part-time Writer" guides the reader through all aspects of writing - from the embryonic stages of researching and planning, to the hard slog of the writing and editing, through to the...

Enda OCoineen / Journey To The Edge (Large Paperback)

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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...

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...

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...

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...