Literary

Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then...

V. S. Naipaul's first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest - his birthplace.In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724699Author Peter FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 18mm

A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the...

This is an engaging account of Austen's life and work, arranged as a series of walking tours through the towns and countryside she knew and loved - the settings for her novels. The 15 circular walks in the book describe the country houses, churches,...

Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060556Author Andres NeumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are...

These personal stories collected from a lifetime of travel will transport the reader from country to country across the world in an immersive reading experience. Spanning many countries and many years, each tale is brought back to life in a careful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152770931Author Martin ThelanderPage Count 2Imprint Paris GrafikPublisher Paris GrafikWeight(grams) 17gDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 1mm

Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole;...

Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colourful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have bought the city to life through...

In the hills above Florence, Santa Maddalena is like a secret garden where writers hone their craft and meet like-minded people. Paired with evocative images, these essays by 27 acclaimed authors invite readers to understand how the spirit of this...

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating...

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. The 1970s were the final gasp of the Golden Age of Flying. Mark Blackburn grew up amidst this fuel-guzzling splendour, with airports his playground of...

Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

A unique and captivating guide to the literary heritage of Venice. Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most breath-taking cities in the world. From its earliest beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture,...

'Humorous, emotional and useful...Don't read Departures if you've got any annual leave left to play with'GraziaHave you ever turned up on a post-heartbreak holiday hopelessly unprepared and been forced to sleep on the floor wrapped up in a curtain? How...

'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' ...

Hit the road with this collection of 200 epic bike rides across Australia and New Zealand. Cycle along Tasmania's Bay of Fires Trail or pedal through the South Island's misty native forest on the Old Ghost Road. Featuring 50 first-person stories and a...

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385343374Author Rachel FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely...

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739897161Author Robert BrucePage Count 2Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates LtdWeight(grams) 75gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what...

Into the heart of one of the world's most alluring cities through the imaginations of over 50 writers and artists. "Barcelona is a fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers...land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm...

November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next...

For centuries before its ""rebirth"" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient Hebrew ship was torpid because the...

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657507Author Mark VanhoenackerFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988732633Author Meaghan Marie HackinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 396g

A century ago, northern Thailand (or Siam as it was then known) was home to small communities of Westerners, many of them British diplomats and foresters (like Reginald Le May and Reginald Campbell) or American missionaries (like Lucy Starling and Mary...

In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. Breathless is the story of a girl who represents those who rebelled against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838216795Author Jon HammerPage Count 1Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates Ltd

Existential Edinburgh is a personal journey through a city that has for centuries inspired many. An exploration, an evocation of the city's past and present it weaves together personal experience, memory and history. It takes the reader beyond the city's...

In Cuba, Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, found a sense of serenity and enrichment he couldn't find anywhere else. Here through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying...