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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin 9780330373579
RRP: €13.08€9.17Between 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... -
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Colonial Societies by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: €13.08€9.17V. 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... -
Real Cardiff: The Flourishing City by Peter Finch 9781781724699
RRP: €11.89€8.32Apologies 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 -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: €17.84€13.65A 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... -
Jane Austen's England by Anne-Marie Edwards 9781788310024
RRP: €11.89€8.87This 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: An Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul 9780330522823
RRP: €17.84€12.92Among 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... -
How To Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Neuman
RRP: €14.27€9.52Apologies 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 -
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
RRP: €17.84€11.02Apologies 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)... -
The Writer and the World: Essays by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: €15.46€10.73During 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... -
Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales by Julie Watson
RRP: €11.89€9.72These 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... -
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Map by Martin Thelander 9789152770931
RRP: €9.51€6.22Apologies 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: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: €15.46€10.82Beyond 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;... -
The Book Lover's Guide to London by Milne, Sarah 9781399001144
RRP: €15.46€10.82Many 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... -
A Tower in Tuscany: Or a Home for My Writers and Other Animals by Be Monti Della Corte
RRP: €53.55€39.04In 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... -
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 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: My Father and Other Turbulence by Mark Blackburn 9781910461747
RRP: €15.46€9.73Final 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... -
Twentieth Century Paris: 1900-1950: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: €23.80€22.38Paris 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... -
The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
RRP: €13.08€8.81In 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... -
Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: €15.46€11.35A 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,... -
Departures: A Guide to Letting Go, One Adventure at a Time by Anna Hart
RRP: €16.65€10.95'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... -
English Hours: A Portrait of a Country by Henry James 9781848854857
RRP: €13.08€9.70'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.' ... -
Lonely Planet Epic Bike Rides of Australia and New Zealand by Lonely Planet 9781838696047
RRP: €29.74€22.15Hit 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... -
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: €17.85€17.70When 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... -
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks by Dave Kyu 9781680511444
RRP: €20.17€16.40Apologies 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... -
The Good Girl's Guide To Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman
RRP: €17.84€12.07Apologies 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... -
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan 9781529351309
RRP: €17.84€13.59From 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... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: €15.46€10.33Barry 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... -
Blandings And Beyond: Pg Wodehouse's England by Herb Lester Associates 9781739897161
RRP: €14.28€9.52Apologies 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 *... -
All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
RRP: €11.89€10.22In 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... -
Barcelona: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Mike Gonzalez
RRP: €20.22€15.30Into 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... -
Dh Lawrence in Italy by Richard Owen
RRP: €11.89€8.15November 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... -
Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction by Ken Frieden 9780815634577
RRP: €66.64€54.59For 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... -
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave by Simon Goldhill 9780226301310
RRP: €23.80€23.09The 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... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World by Mark Vanhoenacker
RRP: €35.70€15.37Apologies 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 -
South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels by Meaghan Marie Hackinen 9781988732633
RRP: €20.22€11.65Apologies 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 -
Enchanted Land: Foreign Writings About Chiang Mai in the Early 20th Century by Graham Jefcoate
RRP: €17.79€11.64A 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... -
Breathless: An American Girl in Paris by Nancy Miller 9781580054881
RRP: €19.03€17.22In 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... -
The World Of Patricia Highsmith by Jon Hammer
RRP: €14.28€9.60Apologies 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 -
Essence of Edinburgh: An Eccentric Odyssey by Jenni Calder 9781912147540
RRP: €15.46€10.73Existential 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... -
Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba by Robert Wheeler 9781510732650
RRP: €29.74€22.22In 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...