Literary

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916263147Author Ali WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint TVTravellerPublisher TVTraveller

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143169574Author Ted BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528718448Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970081Author Neil Douglas-KlotzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993286506Author Emma Kate HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint LVL Travel BooksPublisher Montessori Stories

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis...

Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in...

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590480069Author CuChullaine O'ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild PressWeight(grams)...

'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend...

'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?8000 miles from home1085 calories a day3 months to write the novel that would make her nameAt least that was the plan. But when Nell...

Richard Paul Roe spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy to seek out and document the exact locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian Plays. Using as his compass only the exact lines spoken by characters in each...

Literature and a love of the English countryside are natural companions.Walking the Literary Landscape by Ian Hamilton and Diane Roberts brings the two together in a collection of 20 circular routes in the north of England, all between 3 and 9 miles (5...

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...

A Book Lover s Guide to New York is a love letter to everything literary in New York City. It is a book all about books. The book is an object in itself, designed as the ultimate little tome any book collector would love to acquire, layered with witty...

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)...

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They...

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 9781901091786Author J. P. SperatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 229gDimensions(mm)...

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'Of all Michael Palin's epic voyages, this may be his greatest ever challenge: crossing the vast and unforgiving Sahara...

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

I love Anna's writing, and I adore stories of adventuring women' Dolly Alderton'Humorous, emotional and useful' Grazia'A beautiful memoir' Dawn O'Porter'Warm, witty and gorgeously written' The Pool 'Even armchair travellers will get a vicarious thrill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091564Author J. P. SperatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 202gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593320389Author Priyanka MattooFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful' Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605755Author Todd LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and anime, and explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically violent and disturbing, the two mediums are both...

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...

Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied watering holes, as entrenched a fixture of the Venetian...

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...

"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and...

'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...

Few countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. Each period of Maltas turbulent historynot least its heroic role during the Second World Warhas added to its rich cultural fabric. Deborah Manleys selection of...

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...

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight...

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;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961719019Author K D FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint K.D. FieldPublisher K.D. FieldWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 17mm